Arthropod Morphospecies versus Taxonomic Species: a Case Study with Araneae, Coleoptera, and Lepidoptera

By José G. B. Derraik, G. Closs, Katharine J. M. Dickinson, P. Sirvid, B. Barratt, B. Patrick. 2002

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Using DNA to assess errors in tropical tree identifications: How often are ecologists wrong and when does it matter? (2010, background): “This can be accomplished by having a taxonomic expert review all of the ecologists’ identifications (cf. Oliver and Beattie 1993, Derraik et al. 2002, Scott and Hallam 2002, Barratt et al. 2003) or through repeated surveys with different observers (Condit 1998, Archaux et al. 2006).”
Canopy insect herbivores in the Azorean Laurisilva forests: key host plant species in a highly generalist insect community (2005, result): “Such a process is also compatible with the present pattern of species accumulation and generalist-with-fidelity insect herbivore guilds, found in E. azorica . Crawley (1983) among others (Straw and Ludlow 1994, Kru ¨ ger and McGavin 2000) argued that a widespread host plant may support more insect”
Taxonomic Resolution and Quantification of Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Samples from an Australian Dryland River: The Benefits and Costs of Using Species Abundance Data (2006, background): “While some level of specialised training is necessary to accurately identify aquatic macroinvertebrates to family level (Metzeling et al., 2003), it is more likely that mistakes in identification will be made at the more difficult finer taxonomic levels (Chessman, 1995; Derraik et al., 2002).”
Consumer-specific responses to riverine subsidy pulses in a riparian arthropod assemblage (2006, background): “We identified emerging insects to family and classified them as ‘morphospecies’ (Derraik et al., 2002) for estimates of total biomass.”
Taxonomic sufficiency: The influence of taxonomic resolution on freshwater bioassessments using benthic macroinvertebrates (2008, methodology): “…inverse relationships between taxonomic detail and accuracy, and between taxonomic detail and precision (e.g., Chessman 1995; Hewlett 2000; Derraik et al. 2002; Landis 2003; Schmidt-Kloiber and Nijboer 2004; Marshall et al. 2006); thus, studies using species taxonomy need more rigorous…”
Effects of riparian arthropod predation on the biomass and abundance of aquatic insect emergence (2005, unknown): “We classified all specimens to morphospecies (sensu Derraik et al. 2002) to estimate total biomass.”
Diversity and distribution of arthropods in native forests of the Azores archipelago (2008, background): “Yet, errors may be considerably reduced if some precautions are taken, namely: (1) some previous training is given to the parataxonomists (Oliver & Beattie 1994; Derraik et al. 2002 ), (2) the same parataxonomists are used throughout the process, (3) some tools to assist parataxonomists are availab”
Parataxonomy vs. taxonomy in biodiversity studies – pitfalls and applicability of ‘morphospecies’ sorting (2004, background): “Some comparative data have been published (Cranston and Hillman 1992; Oliver and Beattie 1993, 1996a, 1996b; Wagner 1996; Trueman and Cranston 1997; Pik et al. 1999; Slotow and Hamer 2000; Derraik et al. 2002), and I added some more from recent projects (Table 1).”