Is the Species Flock Concept Operational? The Antarctic Shelf Case
There has been a significant body of literature on species flock definition but not so much about practical means to appraise them. We here apply the five criteria of Eastman and McCune for detecting species flocks in four taxonomic components of the benthic fauna of the Antarctic shelf: teleost fis...
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ftarchimer:oai:archimer.ifremer.fr:40754 2023-05-15T13:50:50+02:00 Is the Species Flock Concept Operational? The Antarctic Shelf Case Lecointre, Guillaume Ameziane, Nadia Boisselier, Marie-catherine Bonillo, Celine Busson, Frederic Causse, Romain Chenuil, Anne Couloux, Arnaud Coutanceau, Jean-pierre Cruaud, Corinne D'Udekem D'Acoz, Cedric De Ridder, Chantal Denys, Gael Dettai, Agnes Duhamel, Guy Eleaume, Marc Feral, Jean-pierre Gallut, Cyril Havermans, Charlotte Held, Christoph Hemery, Lenaig Lautredou, Anne-claire Martin, Patrick Ozouf-costaz, Catherine Pierrat, Benjamin Pruvost, Patrice Puillandre, Nicolas Samadi, Sarah Saucede, Thomas Schubart, Christoph David, Bruno 2013-08-02 application/pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00296/40754/39754.pdf https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068787 https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00296/40754/ eng eng Public Library Science https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00296/40754/39754.pdf doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068787 https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00296/40754/ 2013 Lecointre et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess restricted use CC-BY Plos One (1932-6203) (Public Library Science), 2013-08-02 , Vol. 8 , N. 8 , P. 1-10 text Publication info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2013 ftarchimer https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068787 2021-09-23T20:27:02Z There has been a significant body of literature on species flock definition but not so much about practical means to appraise them. We here apply the five criteria of Eastman and McCune for detecting species flocks in four taxonomic components of the benthic fauna of the Antarctic shelf: teleost fishes, crinoids (feather stars), echinoids (sea urchins) and crustacean arthropods. Practical limitations led us to prioritize the three historical criteria (endemicity, monophyly, species richness) over the two ecological ones (ecological diversity and habitat dominance). We propose a new protocol which includes an iterative fine-tuning of the monophyly and endemicity criteria in order to discover unsuspected flocks. As a result nine "full" species flocks (fulfilling the five criteria) are briefly described. Eight other flocks fit the three historical criteria but need to be further investigated from the ecological point of view (here called "core flocks"). The approach also shows that some candidate taxonomic components are no species flocks at all. The present study contradicts the paradigm that marine species flocks are rare. The hypothesis according to which the Antarctic shelf acts as a species flocks generator is supported, and the approach indicates paths for further ecological studies and may serve as a starting point to investigate the processes leading to flock-like patterning of biodiversity. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Archimer (Archive Institutionnelle de l'Ifremer - Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer) Antarctic Eastman ENVELOPE(-62.985,-62.985,-65.166,-65.166) The Antarctic PLoS ONE 8 8 e68787 |
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There has been a significant body of literature on species flock definition but not so much about practical means to appraise them. We here apply the five criteria of Eastman and McCune for detecting species flocks in four taxonomic components of the benthic fauna of the Antarctic shelf: teleost fishes, crinoids (feather stars), echinoids (sea urchins) and crustacean arthropods. Practical limitations led us to prioritize the three historical criteria (endemicity, monophyly, species richness) over the two ecological ones (ecological diversity and habitat dominance). We propose a new protocol which includes an iterative fine-tuning of the monophyly and endemicity criteria in order to discover unsuspected flocks. As a result nine "full" species flocks (fulfilling the five criteria) are briefly described. Eight other flocks fit the three historical criteria but need to be further investigated from the ecological point of view (here called "core flocks"). The approach also shows that some candidate taxonomic components are no species flocks at all. The present study contradicts the paradigm that marine species flocks are rare. The hypothesis according to which the Antarctic shelf acts as a species flocks generator is supported, and the approach indicates paths for further ecological studies and may serve as a starting point to investigate the processes leading to flock-like patterning of biodiversity. |
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Lecointre, Guillaume Ameziane, Nadia Boisselier, Marie-catherine Bonillo, Celine Busson, Frederic Causse, Romain Chenuil, Anne Couloux, Arnaud Coutanceau, Jean-pierre Cruaud, Corinne D'Udekem D'Acoz, Cedric De Ridder, Chantal Denys, Gael Dettai, Agnes Duhamel, Guy Eleaume, Marc Feral, Jean-pierre Gallut, Cyril Havermans, Charlotte Held, Christoph Hemery, Lenaig Lautredou, Anne-claire Martin, Patrick Ozouf-costaz, Catherine Pierrat, Benjamin Pruvost, Patrice Puillandre, Nicolas Samadi, Sarah Saucede, Thomas Schubart, Christoph David, Bruno |
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Lecointre, Guillaume Ameziane, Nadia Boisselier, Marie-catherine Bonillo, Celine Busson, Frederic Causse, Romain Chenuil, Anne Couloux, Arnaud Coutanceau, Jean-pierre Cruaud, Corinne D'Udekem D'Acoz, Cedric De Ridder, Chantal Denys, Gael Dettai, Agnes Duhamel, Guy Eleaume, Marc Feral, Jean-pierre Gallut, Cyril Havermans, Charlotte Held, Christoph Hemery, Lenaig Lautredou, Anne-claire Martin, Patrick Ozouf-costaz, Catherine Pierrat, Benjamin Pruvost, Patrice Puillandre, Nicolas Samadi, Sarah Saucede, Thomas Schubart, Christoph David, Bruno Is the Species Flock Concept Operational? The Antarctic Shelf Case |
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Lecointre, Guillaume Ameziane, Nadia Boisselier, Marie-catherine Bonillo, Celine Busson, Frederic Causse, Romain Chenuil, Anne Couloux, Arnaud Coutanceau, Jean-pierre Cruaud, Corinne D'Udekem D'Acoz, Cedric De Ridder, Chantal Denys, Gael Dettai, Agnes Duhamel, Guy Eleaume, Marc Feral, Jean-pierre Gallut, Cyril Havermans, Charlotte Held, Christoph Hemery, Lenaig Lautredou, Anne-claire Martin, Patrick Ozouf-costaz, Catherine Pierrat, Benjamin Pruvost, Patrice Puillandre, Nicolas Samadi, Sarah Saucede, Thomas Schubart, Christoph David, Bruno |
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Is the Species Flock Concept Operational? The Antarctic Shelf Case |
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Is the Species Flock Concept Operational? The Antarctic Shelf Case |
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Is the Species Flock Concept Operational? The Antarctic Shelf Case |
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