FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Is the Species Flock Concept Operational? The Antarctic Shelf Case BT AF LECOINTRE, Guillaume AMEZIANE, Nadia BOISSELIER, Marie-Catherine BONILLO, Celine BUSSON, Frederic CAUSSE, Romain CHENUIL, Anne COULOUX, Arnaud COUTANCEAU, Jean-Pierre CRUAUD, Corinne D'UDEKEM D'ACOZ, Cedric DE RIDDER, Chantal DENYS, Gael DETTAI, Agnes DUHAMEL, Guy ELEAUME, Marc FERAL, Jean-Pierre GALLUT, Cyril HAVERMANS, Charlotte HELD, Christoph HEMERY, Lenaig LAUTREDOU, Anne-Claire MARTIN, Patrick OZOUF-COSTAZ, Catherine PIERRAT, Benjamin PRUVOST, Patrice PUILLANDRE, Nicolas SAMADI, Sarah SAUCEDE, Thomas SCHUBART, Christoph DAVID, Bruno AS 1:1;2:2;3:1;4:3;5:2;6:2;7:4;8:5;9:1;10:5;11:6;12:7;13:2;14:1;15:2;16:2;17:4;18:1;19:6;20:8;21:2;22:1;23:6;24:1;25:9;26:2;27:1;28:1;29:9;30:10;31:9; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:;13:;14:;15:;16:;17:;18:;19:;20:;21:;22:;23:;24:;25:;26:;27:;28:;29:;30:;31:; C1 Museum Natl Hist Nat, UMR UPMC MNHN CNRS IRD Systemat Adaptat Evolut 71, Dept Systemat & Evolut, F-75231 Paris, France. Museum Natl Hist Nat, UMR UPMC MNHN CNRS IRD BOREA 7208, Dept Milieux & Peuplements Aquat, F-75231 Paris, France. Museum Natl Hist Nat, UMS MNHN CNRS Outils & Methodes Systemat Integrat, F-75231 Paris, France. Univ Aix Marseille 2, UMR CNRS DIMAR Diversite Evolut & Ecol Fonct Mari, F-13284 Marseille 07, France. Genoscope, Ctr Natl Sequencage, Evry, France. Royal Belgian Inst Nat Sci, Brussels, Belgium. Univ Libre Bruxelles, Biol Marine Lab, Brussels, Belgium. Alfred Wegener Inst Polar & Marine Res, Bremerhaven, Germany. Univ Bourgogne, UMR BIOGEOSCI 6282, CNRS, Dijon, France. Univ Regensburg, Inst Zool, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany. C2 MNHN, FRANCE MNHN, FRANCE MNHN, FRANCE UNIV AIX MARSEILLE, FRANCE GENOSCOPE, FRANCE ROYAL BELGIAN INST NAT SCI, BELGIUM UNIV LIBRE BRUXELLES, BELGIUM INST A WEGENER, GERMANY UNIV BOURGOGNE, FRANCE UNIV REGENSBURG, GERMANY IN DOAJ IF 3.534 TC 47 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00296/40754/39754.pdf LA English DT Article CR CEAMARC ICOTA 2008 REVOLTA 2011 BO L'Astrolabe AB 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. PY 2013 PD AUG SO Plos One SN 1932-6203 PU Public Library Science VL 8 IS 8 UT 000324545800006 BP 1 EP 10 DI 10.1371/journal.pone.0068787 ID 40754 ER EF