{
  "id": 16912111,
  "title": "'PhyTaxR', a set of phytoplankton taxonomic curation tools in R",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/phytaxr-a-set-of-phytoplankton-taxonomic-curation-tools-in-r",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.23.761320v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Taxonomic harmonisation is a persistent challenge for phytoplankton monitoring and biodiversity synthesis. Operational taxon fields often combine scientific names --some of which may be incomplete, misspelled, or otherwise non-standard-- with size classes, morphological descriptors, uncertainty qualifiers, vernacular labels, author citations, and historical nomenclature. Here we introduce…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}