Taxonomic resolution of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in bioassessments

By R. Bailey, R. Norris, T. Reynoldson. Journal of The North American Benthological Society, 2001

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Citations in the corpus

• Bioassessment of streams with macroinvertebrates: effect of sampled habitat and taxonomic resolution (2007, methodology): “…sensitivity of invertebrate metrics with greater taxonomic resolution is likely to be related to the numbers of lower taxa (species or genera) within each family (or other higher taxa) and the degree to which the constituent taxa differ in tolerance of anthropogenic stressors (Bailey et al. 2001).”
• Taxonomic sufficiency: The influence of taxonomic resolution on freshwater bioassessments using benthic macroinvertebrates (2008, methodology): “…and time consuming than coarse identifications are (Furse et al. 1984; Sheldon 1984; Kilgour and Barton 1999; Hawkins and Norris 2000; Hewlett 2000; Bailey et al. 2001; Metzeling and Miller 2001; Gayraud et al. 2003; Schmidt-Kloiber and Nijboer 2004; Marshall et al. 2006), and they require more…”
• Discriminatory power of different arthropod data sets for the biological monitoring of anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests (2004, background): “However, in some conditions, sorting to families may be acceptable (Bailey et al. 2001; Lenat and Resh 2001).”
• Evaluating Subsampling Approaches and Macroinvertebrate Taxonomic Resolution for Wetland Bioassessment (2002, methodology): “A final consideration may be to identify chironomids or other families that contain indicator taxa to genus or species but identify remaining individuals to family (Bailey et al. 2001).”
• Ambiguous taxa: effects on the characterization and interpretation of invertebrate assemblages (2007, background): “However, the effects of methods of resolving taxonomic ambiguities largely have been ignored or attention has been restricted to a discussion of the effects of taxonomic resolution (Bailey et al. 2001, Lenat and Resh 2001).”
• Taxonomy and stream ecology—The benefits of genus- and species-level identifications (2001, result): “It is not, therefore, surprising that such summary information is very similar when different taxonomic levels are compared in some studies (e.g., Bailey et al. 2001, their table 1).”
• Relationships between environmental characteristics and macroinvertebrate communities in seasonal woodland ponds of Minnesota (2004, background): “The value of species or genus vs family classification recently has been debated for streams (Bailey et al. 2001, Lenat and Resh 2001) and, in wetlands, taxonomic resolution at the family level or higher may mask significant relationships (King and Richardson 2002).”
• Taxonomic sufficiency in freshwater ecosystems: effects of taxonomic resolution, functional traits, and data transformation (2013, background): “…levels than species Previous studies on macrobenthic communities in marine and freshwater environments suggested that coarser taxonomic levels may be more appropriate for the quantification of environmental changes than the species level (Ferraro and Cole 1990, Warwick 1993, Bailey et al. 2001).”
• Biological identifications of mayflies (Ephemeroptera) using DNA barcodes (2005, background): “The need for species-level identification in biomonitoring is contentious (see Bailey et al. 2001, Lenat and Resh 2001), but DNA barcoding could provide the option of species-level identification when taxonomic discrimination at the species level is warranted.”
• Developments in aquatic insect biomonitoring: a comparative analysis of recent approaches. (2006, background): “Different levels of taxonomy have been used in aquatic invertebrate biomonitoring (family, genus, or species), a fact that has been widely discussed because costs and the precision of the information provided differ among taxonomic levels (10, 84, 95).”
• Rapid Bioassessment Protocols using benthic macroinvertebrates in Brazil: evaluation of taxonomic sufficiency (2010, background): “The purpose of an RBP is not to describe the macroinvertebrate assemblage, but rather to identify potential impacts or differences from the reference condition (Bailey et al. 2001).”
• Concordance among stream assemblages and spatial autocorrelation along a fragmented gradient (2007, background): “…numerous authors have underlined that multivariate characterizations of macroinvertebrate community composition do not seem to be sensitive to taxonomic resolution (e.g. Furse et al ., 1984; Marchant et al ., 1995; Hewlett, 2000; Bailey et al ., 2001), at least from family to species level.”
• Non-commercial Research and Educational Use including without Limitation Use in Instruction at Your Institution, Sending It to Specific Colleagues That You Know, and Providing a Copy to Your Institution's Administrator. All Other Uses, Reproduction and Distribution, including without Limitation Comm (2005, unknown): “This number is small for molecules with a limited number of spins (66) and high symmetry.”
• Invertebrate traits for the biomonitoring of large European rivers: an initial assessment of alternative metrics (2003, background): “…biomonitoring applications, the choice of taxonomic resolution is often controversial because it constitutes a compromise between the need for sufficient information to detect human impacts and the availability and/or cost of obtaining this information (Resh & McElravy, 1993; Bailey et al., 2001).”
• Can DNA barcodes of stream macroinvertebrates improve descriptions of community structure and water quality? (2011, background): “In cases where the gradient is steep and numerous families and even orders may be affected by the environmental stressors, coarse taxonomic resolution provides much the same resolution as genus/species identifications (e.g., Bowman and Bailey 1997, Bailey et al. 2001, Arscott et al. 2006).”