Is the Species Flock Concept Operational? The Antarctic Shelf Case

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Lecointre, Guillaume, Améziane, Nadia, Boisselier, Marie-Catherine, Bonillo, Céline, Busson, Frédéric, Causse, Romain, Chenuil, Anne, Couloux, Arnaud, Coutanceau, Jean-Pierre, Cruaud, Corinne, d'Udekem d'Acoz , Cédric, De Ridder, Chantal, Denys, Gael, Dettaï, Agnès, Duhamel, Guy, Eléaume, Marc, Féral, Jean-Pierre, Gallut, Cyril, Havermans, Charlotte, Hemery, Lenaïg, Held, Christoph, Lautrédou, Anne-Claire, Martin, Patrick, Ozouf-Costaz , Catherine, Pierrat, Benjamin, Puillandre, Nicolas, Pruvost, Patrick, Samadi, Sarah, Saucède, Thomas, Schubart, Christoph, David, Bruno
• Other Authors: UCL - SC/BIOL - Département de biologie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic; Eastman; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/128049; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068787

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...