Species inflation and taxonomic artefacts—A critical comment on recent trends in mammalian classification

By Frank E. Zachos, M. Apollonio, E. Bärmann, M. Festa‐Bianchet, U. Göhlich, J. Habel, E. Haring, L. Kruckenhauser, S. Lovari, A. Mcdevitt and 5 more. 2013

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Genetics

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• 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).”
• Cryptic Biodiversity in Streams: A Comparison of Macroinvertebrate Communities Based on Morphological and DNA Barcode Identifications (2014, background): “…Agapow et al. 2004, Sites and Marshall 2004, DeSalle et al. 2005, Pons et al. 2006) and concerns about taxonomic inflation (e.g., Isaac et al. 2004, Zachos et al. 2013), but we think that the vast majority of the species identified in our study are distinct species and that when barcode libraries…”