Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Evaluation du risque posé par l »implantation de 7 éoliennes sur le plateau de Herbet sur le Faucon pèlerin (Falco peregrinus) et le Grand-duc d’Europe (Bubo bubo).
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La "taxonomie" intégrative en tant que discipline fondamentale dans les milieux polaires
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'Integrative taxonomy' as a fundamental discipline in polar environments
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'Integratieve taxonomie' als fundamentele wetenschap op de Noord- en Zuidpool
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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 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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Revised classification of a group of small species of Cytharomorula Kuroda, 1953 (Muricidae: Ergalataxinae) from the Indo-West Pacific
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Description of a new species of Favartia (Pygmaepterys) (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Muricopsinae) from Hawaii
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Description of two new Chicomurex species (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from the Philippine Islands
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Two remarkable new gastropods (Muricidae: Muricinae) from the Mascarene Plateau, Indian Ocean
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Note sur la présence de Indothais blanfordi (Melvill, 1893) (Muricidae: Rapaninae) au Sénégal et en Guinée-Bissau et commentaires sur deux autres espèces d’ Afrique Occidentale
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The discovery of the syntypes of Trophon birileffi Lischke, 1871 (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Ergalataxinae), its taxonomic implication and note about the distributional records
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Description of new Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) collected during the Atimo Vatae expedition to Madagascar “Deep South”
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Color variations in Muricopsis principensis Rolán & Fernandes, 1991 (Gastropoda, Muricidae) from Príncipe Island
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The genus Daphnellopsis (Gastropoda: Muricidae) in the Recent and Quaternary of the Indo-West Pacific province
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Taxocoenoses of amphipod crustaceans
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Canine mitochondrial genome sequencing to improve the genetic profiling of dog hair
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Improving mtDNA profiling of dog hair by coding region SNP analysis
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Spatial variability of fruit fly agricultural pests (Diptera: Tephritidae) in rural areas and tropical forests of Central Congo
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A propos de la présence d'Atypus affinis Eichwald, 1830 (Araneae, Atypidae) dans la région bruxelloise
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L'aranéofaune de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale. Cinquième partie: le cimetière de verrewinckel à Uccle
