OPERATIONAL CRITERIA FOR DELIMITING SPECIES

By J. W. Sites, Jonathon C. Marshall. 2004

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Deciphering the products of evolution at the species level: the need for an integrative taxonomy (2009, background): “Thus, incongruence among lines of evidence was commonly interpreted either as evidence of erroneous taxonomic hypotheses or of the intrinsic limitations of particular concepts, methods or characters (Sites & Marshall 2004).”
The integrative future of taxonomy (2010, methodology): “DNA sequences can be examined using non-tree based methods to provide diagnostic differences among species [49], but most frequently they are analyzed using tree-based methods to search for monophyletic groups that could represent species [22].”
Quantitative criteria for species delimitation (2010, background): “We therefore agree that taxonomic decisions should be based on the maximum number of available characters (de Queiroz 1998, 2007, Sites & Marshall 2004, Winker 2009), and that the ideal scenario involves a combination of ecological, behavioural, phenotypic and genotypic data (e.g. Yoder et al.…”
Phylogenetic species delimitation of the earthworms Eisenia fetida (Savigny, 1826) and Eisenia andrei Bouché, 1972 (Oligochaeta, Lumbricidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences (2005, methodology): “Recent revisions of these and other more classical methods have organized them into two general categories of tree- and nontreebased approaches ( Sites and Marshall, 2003, 2004 ).”
Cuticular hydrocarbon profiles as a taxonomic tool: advantages, limitations and technical aspects (2012, background): “The problem of finding a boundary or range beyond which a species can be classed as independent is common to all taxonomic tools (Sites & Marshall, 2004).”
Field and Laboratory Methods for DNA Studies on Deep-sea Isopod Crustaceans (2014, background): “Taxonomists work− ing on deep−sea isopods classically (even though usually not explicitly stating so) apply the morphological (genotypic) cluster concept (Mallet 1995) when delimita− ting and describing new taxa using purely morphological data under the assump− tion that between−species variability ”
Ecologically differentiated stress-tolerant endosymbionts in the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) Clade D are different species (2014, methodology): “Using this integrative approach, species are formally described that satisfy the core principles of major species concepts (Sites & Marshall 2004; de Queiroz 2007).”
Blind to morphology: genetics identifies several widespread ecologically common species and few endemics among Indo‐Pacific cauliflower corals (Pocillopora, Scleractinia) (2013, background): “The recent evaluation of genetic traits has led to important changes in systematics and taxonomy in ways that have improved our understanding of ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes (Sites & Marshall, 2004).”