Parataxonomy vs. taxonomy in biodiversity studies – pitfalls and applicability of ‘morphospecies’ sorting

By Frank-Thorsten Krell. Biodiversity and Conservation, 2004

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Open Nomenclature in the biodiversity era (2016, background): “Staff members with different levels of expertise, including technicians and parataxonomists (Janzen 2004; Krell 2004), are requested to identify a large number of specimens, including organisms at different life stages and in different state of preservation.”
Rapid biodiversity assessment of arthropods for monitoring average local species richness and related ecosystem services (2010, background): “Reliability and consistency of morphospecies counts A main concern with the morphospecies approach is the capability and consistency of nonspecialists in sorting and counting morphospecies (Krell 2004).”
Changes in arthropod diversity along a land use driven gradient of shrub cover in savanna rangelands: identification of suitable indicators (2009, methodology): “Furthermore, habitat-related changes in invertebrate assemblages have been successfully demonstrated using RTUs in other studies (e.g., Fabricius et al. 2003; Krell 2004 ).”
Acoustic indices for biodiversity assessments: Analyses of bias based on simulated bird assemblages and recommendations for field surveys (2015, unknown): “…methods, known as rapid biodiversity assessments (RBAs), speed the inventory process by focusing on a particular taxonomic group (Kerr et al., 2000; Mazaris et al., 2008; Rosser and Eggleton, 2012) or by using para-taxonomic methods (Krell, 2004; Oliver and Beattie, 1996; Ward and Stanley, 2004).”
Diversity and distribution of arthropods in native forests of the Azores archipelago (2008, background): “The use of morphospecies has become a common strategy to include poorly known taxa in conservation studies (Oliver & Beattie 1994; Derraik et al. 2002; Krell 2004 ).”
Montane Andean rain forests are a global diversity hotspot of geometrid moths (2005, methodology): “Well documented species lists with corresponding voucher specimens, as in this study, are verifiable and available for new investigations and subsequent amendment, in contrast to abstract numbers or lists of morpho-species (Krell, 2004).”