Guidelines for assigning species rank

By A. Helbig, A. Knox, D. Parkin, G. Sangster, M. Collinson. 2002

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Genetics, Geography, Planning and Development

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Molecules, ecology, morphology, and songs in concert: how many species is Arremon torquatus (Aves: Emberizidae)? (2009, methodology): “…framework for the application of the BSC in ornithology, Remsen (2005) suggested that allopatric populations should be treated as species if their degree of divergence is at or beyond that of taxa known to have reached reproductive isolation (Isler, Isler & Whitney, 1998; Helbig et al., 2002).”
THE GREATER SPOTTED EAGLE AQUILA CLANGA AND THE LESSER SPOTTED EAGLE A. POMARINA: TAXONOMY, PHYLOGEOGRAPHY AND ECOLOGY (2004, background): “Avian speciation is allopatric and no cases of speciation without spatial isolation are known (Grant & Grant 1997a, Helbig et al. 2002).”
SPECIES LIMITS IN ANTBIRDS (THAMNOPHILIDAE): THE WARBLING ANTBIRD (HYPOCNEMIS CANTATOR) COMPLEX (2007, background): “…reproductive isolation and species status of sympatric and allopatric populations of suboscine passerines (Isler et al. 1998, Johnson et al. 1999, Baptista and Kroodsma 2001, Helbig et al. 2002, Remsen 2005), though cautions regarding individual variation and clinality apply (Isler et al. 2005).”
Taxonomic inflation: its influence on macroecology and conservation. (2004, background): “Recent efforts to generate explicit rules for taxa to be included on the UK bird lists [ 30 ] and for designation of population units for conservation action [6,31] are direct responses to these different demands.”
ASSESSING THE TAXONOMIC STATUS OF THE PALAWAN PANGOLIN MANIS CULIONENSIS (PHOLIDOTA) USING DISCRETE MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS (2005, background): “However, in the absence of a phylogenetic framework, the use of discrete characters remains one of the most common non–tree-based approaches for delimiting species boundaries (e.g., Barnosky and Bell 2003; Helbig et al. 2002).”
Description of a new dolphin, the Australian snubfin dolphin Orcaella heinsohni sp. N. (cetacea, delphinidae) (2005, background): “Helbig et al. (2002) suggested that allopatric populations (of birds) be assigned species rank if they ‘‘are fully diagnosable in each of several discrete or continuously varying characters related to different functional contexts, e.g., structural features [often related to foraging strategy],…”
The role of taxonomy in species conservation. (2004, background): “The Helbig et al. (2002) system is designed for British birds and is not straightforward to generalize to other taxa and circumstances, but it provides a clear example of a practical approach from which more general principles could develop.”
Taxonomic recommendations for British birds (2002, methodology): “A paper outlining the approach of the Sub-committee to species-level decisions has recently been published (Helbig et al. 2002.”
Phylogeography: its development and impact in Australo-Papuan ornithology with special reference to paraphyly in Australian birds (2009, background): “For an entrée to the large literature on species concepts in birds see Helbig et al. (2002), Remsen (2005),Watson (2005), Garnett and Christidis (2007) and de Queiroz (2007, especially fig.”
Quantitative criteria for species delimitation (2010, background): “An attempt to introduce broader procedural consistency was made by the British Ornithologists’ Union in its ‘guidelines for the application of species limits to sympatric, parapatric, allopatric and hybridizing taxa’ (Helbig et al. 2002, hereafter ‘the BOU guidelines’).”
Species taxonomy of birds: Which null hypothesis? (2014, background): “Differences between sympatric, congeneric species in morphology and vocalizations, supplemented by DNA divergences, help us to calibrate new thresholds of species status (Isler et al. 1998, Helbig et al. 2002, Tobias et al. 2010, Amei and Smith 2013).”