Understanding and confronting species uncertainty in biology and conservation

By J. Hey, Robin S. Waples, M. Arnold, R. Butlin, R. Harrison. 2003

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, History and Philosophy of Science

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Standard Percent DNA Sequence Difference for Insects Does Not Predict Species Boundaries (2006, methodology): “This method provides an objective means to use DNA characters to rank species (Nadler 2002) and embodies the philosophy that species taxa are hypotheses of evolutionary entities (Hey et al. 2003).”
Quantitative criteria for species delimitation (2010, background): “However, this becomes less of an obstacle once it is recognized that the priority is not perfect objectivity but effective compromise (Hey et al. 2003, Winker et al. 2007).”
Phylogeography and the conservation of coral reef fishes (2007, background): “In recent years, the species concept debate started to point towards the idea that species are simply evolving lineages or evolving populations (Avise and Wollenberg 1997; Hey et al. 2003).”
ASSESSING THE TAXONOMIC STATUS OF THE PALAWAN PANGOLIN MANIS CULIONENSIS (PHOLIDOTA) USING DISCRETE MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS (2005, background): “…morphological characters is crucially important for understanding the evolutionary history of these pangolins and for promoting conservation efforts, because species-level taxa are more likely to benefit from effective conservation plans than are taxa below the species rank (see Hey et al. 2003).”
Implications of different species concepts for conserving biodiversity (2012, background): “Use of different species concepts to classify species has potential financial, legal, biological and conservation implications (Hey et al., 2003).”
OPERATIONAL CRITERIA FOR DELIMITING SPECIES (2004, methodology): “What has been missing in most empirical studies are honest assessments of uncertainties of methods (Adams 2001, Hey et al. 2003) and cross-validation of inferences from a single method or data set.”
Protist diversity and distribution: some basic considerations (2008, background): “... species 2 Rates of migration Low High Low for most of the rare species, high only for some euryoecious species 3 Proportion of global species pool found locally Low High Moderate; usually highly overestimated due to undersampling, see Foissner (1999) for an example 4 Rates of allopatric speciati”
Deciphering the products of evolution at the species level: the need for an integrative taxonomy (2009, background): “The framework provided by the lineage concept is being rapidly accepted by most phylogeneticists and population biologists who aim at delineating species boundaries (Wiley 1981; Wiens & Penkrot 2002; Funk & Omland 2003; Hey et al. 2003; Sites & Marshall 2004; Wiens 2007; Knowles & Carstens 2007), an”
Designatable Units for Status Assessment of Endangered Species (2005, background): “The reason for this resides in the same, inherent uncertainties that beset the many proposals for defining or recognizing species as entities in systematics (Hey et al. 2003).”
Accelerated species inventory on Madagascar using coalescent-based models of species delineation. (2009, background): “Uncertainty about the nature of species-level entities may be problematic within these lineages (Hey et al. 2003), but it is precisely these groups that are most urgently in need of study (e.g., Monaghan et al. 2006).”
INVITED REVIEW: What is a population? An empirical evaluation of some genetic methods for identifying the number of gene pools and their degree of connectivity (2006, background): “The ‘species problem’ involves both conceptual differences and the inherent biological fuzziness of species in nature (Hey et al. 2003), but neither of these factors need represent an insurmountable obstacle to practical application of species concepts.”
Recent advances in DNA taxonomy (2007, background): “Pons et al.s (2006) analysis of branch length also takes into account uncertainty of species limits by permitting confidence intervals when allocating species defining nodes, a desirable property where species limits are weakly developed ( Hey et al. 2003 ).”
Progress in understanding pollination systems in New Zealand (2005, background): “The problem is exacerbated when these categories are used as fundamental units for inferring evolutionary history (Hey et al. 2003).”
Conservation status of imperiled north American freshwater and diadromous fishes (2008, unknown): “Taxa are included on our list with full consideration of the relevancy of appropriate evolutionary units in the context of manageable conservation units (Nielsen 1995; Grady and Quattro 1999; Musick et al. 2000; Hey et al. 2003).”
A Tale of Two Acts: Endangered Species Listing Practices in Canada and the United States (2013, background): “Science inevitably involves subjectivity; biological systems are inherently messy and seldom fit neatly into the arbitrary categorical determinations required by national species-at-risk legislation (Yaffee 1982, Doremus 1997, Hey et al. 2003, D’elia and McCarthy 2010).”
The role of taxonomy in species conservation. (2004, background): “Despite all this, there seems to be an emerging consensus from the species conservation–ESU debate about what the units for conservation action should represent (Hey et al. 2003).”
Delimiting species without monophyletic gene trees. (2007, background): “Species are the basic unit of biodiversity and, as such, are inextricably linked to the study of the processes involved in speciation (Moritz et al., 1992; Agapow et al., 2004; de Queiroz, 2005a, 2005b), as well as the conservation of diversity (Hey et al., 2003; Gompert et al., 2006).”