Is the species flock concept operational? The Antarctic shelf case.

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Guillaume Lecointre, Nadia Améziane, Marie-Catherine Boisselier, Céline Bonillo, Frédéric Busson, Romain Causse, Anne Chenuil, Arnaud Couloux, Jean-Pierre Coutanceau, Corinne Cruaud, Cédric d'Udekem d'Acoz, Chantal De Ridder, Gael Denys, Agnès Dettaï, Guy Duhamel, Marc Eléaume, Jean-Pierre Féral, Cyril Gallut, Charlotte Havermans, Christoph Held, Lenaïg Hemery, Anne-Claire Lautrédou, Patrick Martin, Catherine Ozouf-Costaz, Benjamin Pierrat, Patrice Pruvost, Nicolas Puillandre, Sarah Samadi, Thomas Saucède, Christoph Schubart, Bruno David
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Eastman; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068787; https://doaj.org/article/6921e3ce613f4f9b9806ae547cb90d6e

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...