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Progress in ‘taxonomic sufficiency’ in aquatic biological investigations
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posted on 2023-05-21, 14:49 authored by Chen, X, Han, M, Liang, Y, Zhao, W, Wu, Y, Sun, Y, Shao, H, Andrew McMinnAndrew McMinn, Zhu, L, Wang, MThe ‘taxonomic sufficiency’ (TS) approach has been applied to algae, protists, invertebrates, and vertebrates, generally by aggregating species-level abundance data to a higher taxonomic level, where genus-level data are often highly correlated with species-level data and are a valid proxy level. The TS approach offers the possibility of a comparison of data from different geographical areas and highlights the effects of contaminants. The TS approach is stable in the face of different researchers and in the comparison of long-term biological survey data. The effectiveness of the TS approach may increase with increasing environmental gradients or spatial area. The TS approach should be avoided when the spatial area is small and small differences in species-level data are considered important, so as not to cancel out the distribution patterns specific to the local environment of the biological taxa.
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Publication title
Marine Pollution BulletinVolume
185Article number
114192Number
114192Pagination
1-9ISSN
0025-326XDepartment/School
Institute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesPublisher
Pergamon-Elsevier Science LtdPlace of publication
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