The Dark Side of Taxonomic Sufficiency (TS)

By D. Maurer. 2000

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Using subsets of species in biodiversity surveys (2007, background): “…but to the extent that a biological survey study is aimed at providing distributional information for all the species in a given group, or for estimating the actual value of species richness, there is obviously no substitute for attempting to survey all species (Lawton et al. 1998; Maurer 2000).”
Quantifying effects of pollution on biodiversity: a case study of highly diverse molluscan assemblages in the Mediterranean (2005, background): “Accurate taxonomic analysis is often unachievable due to costs in processing samples and, above all, lack of taxonomic expertise (Maurer 2000; Boero 2001).”
A review of approaches for classifying benthic habitats and evaluating habitat quality. (2004, background): “This presumably relates to the view that identification to the lowest possible taxon results in appreciable gains in discriminatory power and statistical rigor (Maurer, 2000; but see, for example, Ferraro and Cole, 1992).”
Taxonomic sufficiency in freshwater ecosystems: effects of taxonomic resolution, functional traits, and data transformation (2013, background): “…macroinvertebrates seem to be consistent from species at least up to family level (Bevilacqua et al. 2012), but biodiversity measures, such as richness, evenness, Shannon Index, or Simpson’s Index have the potential to be strongly underestimated by the use of coarser taxonomic levels (Maurer 2000).”