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A Concoction Pipeline for Generating Molecular Operational Taxonomic Units (MOTUs) Among Riparian and Aquatic Beetles
Published on: July 11, 2025
Use of cross-taxon congruence for hotspot identification at a regional scale
Simone Fattorini1, Roger L H Dennis, Laurence M Cook
1Water Ecology Team, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy. simone_fattorini@virgilio.it
Abstract:
One of the most debated problems in conservation biology is the use of indicator (surrogate) taxa to predict spatial patterns in other taxa. Cross-taxon congruence in species richness patterns is of paramount importance at regional scales to disclose areas of high conservation value that are significant in a broader biogeographical context but yet placed in the finer, more practical, political context of decision making. We analysed spatial patterns of diversity in six arthropod taxa from the Turkish fauna as a regional case study relevant to global conservation of the Mediterranean basin. Although we found high congruence in cross-taxon comparisons of species richness (0.241
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