Taxonomic relatedness does not matter for species surrogacy in the assessment of community responses to environmental drivers

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 357-366

  Bevilacqua, Stanislao ^a   Terlizzi, Antonio ^a   Claudet, Joachim ^b,c   Fraschetti, Simonetta ^a   Boero, Ferdinando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b Laboratoire d'Excellence 'CORAIL'   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Higher taxon approach; Impact assessment; Marine molluscs; Natural environmental variations; Phylogenetic relatedness; Taxonomic surrogates; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLLUSC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENETICS; RELATEDNESS; RESOLUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 84859159570     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.02096.x     Document Type: Article

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