Fungal nomenclature 3. A critical response to the 'Amsterdam Declaration'
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Numerous taxonomists and monographers of fungi are objecting an enforced unitary nomenclature for ascomycetes and basidiomycetes. Proposals 297 and subsequent ones by Redhead et al. (2010) and the “Amsterdam Declaration” (AD) demand more or less drastic and not necessarily efficient changes into this direction. Three groups of arguments in the AD are refuted: 1. The identification of organisms exclusively based on gene sequences is prone to errors and only a minority of the named fungi has been thoroughly studied so far with molecular methods. 2. There is no need for a mycological Code separate from the botanical one. Where taxonomy demands, special rules for Fungi have already been defined. The registration of taxonomic novelties required for valid publication is supported, but without MycoBank being entitled to make taxonomic statements. 3. Deletion of Article 59 is not possible without chaotic consequences. The mechanism of teleotypification alone does not lead to phylogenetically supported genera. Even after introducing a 'one fungus – one name' rule, mycologists will need to understand the so far prevailing system of dual nomenclature when screening the taxonomic literature. Objections to the recommendations of the AD include: A selection of generic names among either teleomorph-typified or anamorph-typified genera according to priority contravenes the time-honored rule of precedence of teleomorph-typified names and would make many crucial teleomorph genera unavailable. – A rule that mycologists, who first choose the generic name to be adopted, would have to be followed and this choice has to be registered will be a serious source of conflicts among mycologists. – More weight will be given to the ICTF, an organization dealing mainly with economically important fungi. We maintain that questions of fungal nomenclature must continue to be handled by the Nomenclature Committee for Fungi (NCF)
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.032 | 0.076 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.021 | 0.051 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.011 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".