Taxonomic inflation: its influence on macroecology and conservation.

By Nick J B Isaac, James Mallet, Georgina M. Mace. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2004

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Extinct, obscure or imaginary: The lizard species with the smallest ranges (2017, neutral): “Only six species in our list are formally recognized as extinct by the IUCN. Red listing is not yet complete for reptiles (only 51%, 5,338 of >10,500 species as of May 2017), and several species most likely extinct (e. g., Phelsuma edwardnewtoni) are not yet listed by the IUCN. Twenty species we ide”
Phylogeny and genus-level classification of mantellid frogs (Amphibia, Anura) (2006, background): “Isaac et al. (2004), based on examples from birds and primates, recently argued that ‘‘taxonomic inflation’’ due to continued elevations of subspecies and variants to species rank may be the reason for increasing species numbers in some groups of organisms.”
Cryptic species, phenotypic plasticity, and complex life histories: Assessing deep-sea faunal diversity with molecular markers (2009, background): “The contingent uncertainties and taxonomic errors resulting from unclear concepts about how to systematize biological diversity create profound challenges for ecologists, biogeographers, and conservation biologists (Alroy, 2002; Isaac et al., 2004).”
Marine turtles and IUCN Red Listing: A review of the process, the pitfalls, and novel assessment approaches (2008, background): “…conservation, there is little agreement on what constitutes a species between people whowork on different taxa, and sometimes even on the same taxa, leading to problems in biodiversity studies, assessment of trends and consequently, conservation (Isaac et al., 2004, Agapow et al., 2004; Mace 2004).”
Global trends and biases in new mammal species discoveries. (2007, background): “Although many ‘end users’ of taxonomic information are eternally frustrated with taxonomic flux (e.g., Isaac et al. 2004), continual updates to our understanding of biodiversity, including that of charismatic and well-studied groups such as mammals, signal the need for patience within the…”
Accounting for uncertainty when mapping species distributions: The need for maps of ignorance (2011, background): “Implementing concept taxonomies is mandatory to solve this issue (Berendsohn, 1995), as well as other related problems such as taxonomic inflation (Isaac et al., 2004; Knapp et al., 2005).”
Integrative taxonomy reveals cryptic Amazonian species of Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae) (2009, background): “First, some biologists interpreted the steady increase in species discoveries using molecular phylogenetics in recent decades as a symptom of taxonomic instability and failure in the identification of true species (Isaac et al., 2004; and responses of Köhler et al., 2005; Padial & De la Riva, 2006).”
Rarest of the rare: advances in combining evolutionary distinctiveness and scarcity to inform conservation at biogeographical scales (2010, background): “…metaphor and can easily be equated to cultural heritage (Mooers et al., 2005); (2) PD is less sensitive to the changing whims of taxonomists (Isaac et al., 2004) – but may be more sensitive to incomplete taxonomic sampling; (3) advances in molecular techniques allow rapid biodiversity…”
Remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity as a proxy of species diversity: Recent advances and open challenges (2010, background): “…cite this article as: Rocchini, D., et al., Remotely sensed spectral open challenges, Ecological Informatics (2010), doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.201 rank of species, which is one of the main reasons for the rapidly increasing numbers of species in certain groups (Isaac et al., 2004; Knapp et al., 2005).”
A monographic catalogue on the systematics and phylogeny of the South American iguanian lizard family Liolaemidae (Squamata, Iguania) (2008, background): “…living organisms, a large proportion of the populations recognized and named as new species is expected to be the result of taxonomic inflation (Isaac et al. 2004; see also May 1988) and of the uncertainty in delimiting species boundaries (e.g. Cracraft 1989; Hudson & Coyne 2002; Lee 2003;…”