DIVERSITAS, an international programme of biodiversity science, was developed to the next phase in 1995. It consists of five major programme elements, which represent the core of the DIVERSITAS research effort, and other four cross-cutting elements. The science of systematics is the branch of biology that seeks an understanding of life's diversity. The international community of systematic biologists proposes Systematics Agenda 2000 to enhance the understanding of the importance of the systematics and to st...