Questioning species realities

By A. Hendry, S. M. Vamosi, S. Latham, Jana C. Heilbuth, T. Day. Conservation Genetics, 2000

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The Impact of Species Concept on Biodiversity Studies (2004, background): “In reality, species are probably not groups with rigid borders but “fuzzy sets” (Hey 2001; Mallet 2001b; Hendry et al. 2002 ), their boundaries blurred by horizontal gene transfer, hybridization, and recent isolation.”
OPERATIONAL CRITERIA FOR DELIMITING SPECIES (2004, background): “Others suggest that groups of organisms be delimited by the amount that they differ from other groups, independent of the concept of species (Hendry et al. 2000, but see Avise & Walker 2000).”
Understanding and confronting species uncertainty in biology and conservation (2003, unknown): “Such counts suffer several limitations depending on the context, but one that is typically overlooked is the usually unknown correspondence between taxa and evolutionary entities [22,48, 49 ].”
Quantitative criteria for species delimitation (2010, background): “For this reason, amongst others, it is generally agreed that no species concept can fully capture the arbitrary nature of species boundaries (Stebbins 1969, Hendry et al. 2000, Hey 2006, Wiens 2007, Joseph & Omland 2009).”