The effects of macroinvertebrate taxonomic resolution in large landscape bioassessments: an example from the Mid-Atlantic Highlands, U.S.A.

By I. Waite, A. Herlihy, D. P. Larsen, N. S. Urquhart, D. J. Klemm. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Citations in the corpus

• Taxonomic sufficiency: The influence of taxonomic resolution on freshwater bioassessments using benthic macroinvertebrates (2008, background): “Showing that taxonomic effects are dataset specific, Waite et al. (2004) reported that the discriminatory abilities of family and genus richness measures were different for different regions in the Mid Atlantic Highlands.”
• Does species‐level resolution matter? Taxonomic sufficiency in terrestrial arthropod biodiversity studies (2013, background): “Our work supports the findings of Terlizzi et al. (2009) for marine mollusc beta diversity as well as the majority of aquatic (reviewed by Bowman & Bailey, 1997; Waite et al., 2004) and terrestrial studies on community composition (e.g. Brennan et al., 2006; Groc et al., 2010).”
• Can DNA barcodes of stream macroinvertebrates improve descriptions of community structure and water quality? (2011, background): “…loss of genera or families, genus/species identifications have added meaningfully to efforts to differentiate among sites relative to similar efforts based on coarser taxonomic resolution (e.g., Resh and Unzicker 1975, Lenat and Resh 2001, Waite et al. 2004, Arscott et al. 2006, Pond et al. 2008).”
• Macroinvertebrates in streams: A review of some ecological factors (2012, background): “…of altitude and season (Hynes, 1970; Dutta and Malhotra, 1986; Engblom and Lingdell, 1999; Ometo et al., 2000; Miserendino and Pizzolon, 2003; Waite et al., 2004; Sporka et al., 2006; Joshi et al., 2007), the substratum (Hynes, 1970; Tumwesigye et al., 2000; Munoz, 2003; Yousuf et al., 2006;…”
• Rapid Bioassessment Protocols using benthic macroinvertebrates in Brazil: evaluation of taxonomic sufficiency (2010, background): “Several authors have suggested that family-level resolution could be used to distinguish between unimpaired, moderately impaired, and severely impaired systems (Plafkin et al. 1989, Hewlett 2000, Lenat and Resh 2001, Waite et al. 2004).”
• Bioassessment of streams with macroinvertebrates: effect of sampled habitat and taxonomic resolution (2007, background): “Waite et al. (2004) found generally low ratios of genera to families in the mid-Atlantic Highlands, USA, with 75% of families having only 1 to 4 genera (Chironomidae being a notable exception with 123 genera).”
• Cryptic Biodiversity in Streams: A Comparison of Macroinvertebrate Communities Based on Morphological and DNA Barcode Identifications (2014, background): “For example, even in studies that take macroinvertebrate identifications to the lowest taxonomic level possible, authors generally leave ≥50% of the individuals examined at the genus or higher level (e.g., Waite et al. 2004, Arscott et al. 2006, Sweeney et al. 2011).”