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Titre :	A new method based on taxonomic sufficiency to simplify studies on Neotropical ant assemblages
Auteurs :	Sarah Groc, Auteur ; Jacques H. C. Delabie, Auteur ; John T. Longino, Auteur ; Jerome Drivel, Auteur ; Jonathan D. Majer, Auteur ; Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, Auteur ; Alain Dejean, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Biological Conservation (143(11) NOV 2010)
Article en page(s) :	2832-2839
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	Insects, particularly ants, are good bioindicators of the state of ecosystems. Nevertheless, incorporating them into conservation surveys is expensive due to problems associated with their identification, which is exacerbated by the fact that there are fewer and fewer taxonomists working today. "Taxonomic sufficiency" (TS), which identifies organisms to a level of taxonomic resolution sufficient enough to satisfy the objectives of a study, has never been applied to Neotropical ant communities. We analysed five Neotropical datasets representing ant assemblages collected with different sampling methods in various habitats. We first treated them using two complementary and cumulative

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