Implications of different species concepts for conserving biodiversity

By R. Frankham, J. Ballou, Michele R. Dudash, Mark Eldridge, C. Fenster, R. Lacy, Joseph Mendelson, I. Porton, K. Ralls, Oliver Ryder. 2012

325 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Molecular Biology

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. R. Frankham
2. C. Fenster
3. J. Johnson
4. Evin T. Carter
5. Joel B. Corush
6. Maureen E. Ryan
7. M. Byrne
8. D. Coates

In Genetics

1. R. Frankham
2. M. Byrne
3. R. Lacy
4. D. Coates
5. J. Ballou
6. C. Fenster
7. K. Ralls
8. J. Johnson

In Molecular Biology

1. R. Frankham
2. M. Byrne
3. D. Coates
4. R. Lacy
5. C. Moritz
6. Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick
7. Jeet Sukumaran
8. C. Fenster

Citations in the corpus

• Call for a Paradigm Shift in the Genetic Management of Fragmented Populations (2018, methodology): “…as the Biological Species Concept, because they will minimize these problems, while the Phylogenetic and General Lineage Species Concepts should be avoided, as they are not suitable for defining genetic management units and tend to artificially inflate the number of species (Frankham et al. 2012).”
• The Wayward Dog: Is the Australian native dog or Dingo a distinct species? (2017, background): “With increasingly powerful genetic methods it has been maintained that there are issues with the limits of diagnosability under the PSC (Frankham et al. 2012).”
• The “Evolutionarily Significant Unit” concept and its applicability in biological conservation (2014, background): “…biology, of dealing with “small”, rather than “large”, taxonomic units has not yet been debated in sufficient depth and is probably far from being concluded (see Descimon & Mallet 2009; Frankham et al. 2012; Zachos et al. 2012; Groves 2013 and the literature cited therein for an excursus).”
• Genetic Diversity and Conservation Units: Dealing With the Species-Population Continuum in the Age of Genomics (2018, background): “In addition, the delimitation of species is also subject to different species concepts and ways of diagnosing them, which has caused great consternation among conservation biologists (Mace, 2004; Frankham et al., 2012; Garnett and Christidis, 2017).”
• Multispecies coalescent delimits structure, not species (2017, background): “Consequently, when the lines become blurred—delimiting species in some cases, but populations in other cases—species delimitation becomes a critical issue with ramifications across multiple fields of study, such as, for example, the estimation of diversity in macroecological studies (13–15), analyse”
• Genetic rescue of small inbred populations: meta-analysis reveals large and consistent benefits of gene flow. (2015, methodology): “In Table 3, I provide updated guidelines, based on this study and Frankham et al. (2011, 2012).”
• Hybridization and the species problem in conservation (2015, background): “ing and conserving particular sub-groups within taxonomic species (e.g., Waples 1991; Moritz 1994; Crandall et al., 2000; Frankham et al., 2012; Funk et al., 2012; Allendorf et al., 2013).”