的声:自从发现以来,描述一只青物种需要多长时间?
Albert Carné1,2,3, Alberto Sánchez-Vialas2, Claudia Lansac2,3
1Science and Business S.L., Edificio CITEXVI, Vigo, Spain.
PloS one
|January 23, 2026
概括
描述新的青物种需要太长的时间,在标本收集和出版之间有很大的延迟. 这种分类学滞后在不断升级的生物多样性危机中威胁到物种保护.
科学领域:
- 动物学 动物学
- 保护生物学 保护生物学
- 纳税学是一种分类学.
背景情况:
- 全球生物多样性面临前所未有的人为威胁,导致高灭绝率.
- 地球生物多样性的很大一部分仍未被描述,这对保护工作构成了挑战.
- 目前的保护法主要保护描述的物种,突出了全面生物多样性清单的紧迫性.
研究的目的:
- 为了调查正式描述新的anuran (青) 物种所需的时间.
- 分析物种描述过程中的时间趋势和影响因素.
- 评估分类学滞后对两动物保护和生物多样性危机缓解的影响.
主要方法:
- 在2000年至2023年期间在四个热带地区描述的anuran物种的分析.
- 时间间隔的量化:样本采集,类型序列采集和出版延迟.
- 探索时间趋势和非生物变量对描述时间线的影响.
主要成果:
- 从第一次样本采集到物种发表的时间从0.4年到125.7年 (中位数7.3年) 之间.
- 在全球范围内,物种描述和出版时间的增加令人担忧.
- 在最初收集的五年内,只有36%的物种被描述.
结论:
- 描述新物种的延长时间延迟阻碍了有效的保护策略.
- 生物收集和持续的实地考察对于记录生物多样性至关重要.
- 为了避免物种灭绝,必须迫切优先考虑分类学研究和修订的保护方法.
相关概念视频
What is a Species?
49.5K
Overview
49.5K
Keystone Species
24.2K
Measures of species biodiversity, such as richness (i.e., the number of species present) and evenness (i.e., their relative abundance), describe an ecological community’s structure. Many factors affect community structure, including abiotic factors (e.g., sunlight and nutrients), disturbances (e.g., fire or flood), species interactions (e.g., predation or competition), and chance events (e.g., foreign species invasion). Certain species—such as keystone species—also play a...
24.2K
Formation of Species
44.8K
Speciation describes the formation of one or more new species from one or sometimes multiple original species. The resulting species are discrete from the parent species, and barriers to reproduction will typically exist. There are two primary mechanisms, speciation with and without geographic isolation—allopatric and sympatric speciation, respectively.
44.8K
Design Example: Frog Muscle Response
589
A student is tasked to work on an intriguing experiment involving an RL (Resistor-Inductor) circuit to study the muscle response of a frog's leg to electrical stimulation. The RL circuit plays a crucial role in this experiment, providing the means to control and measure the electrical impulses that trigger muscle contraction.
When the switch connecting the RL circuit is closed, a brief muscle contraction is observed. This is because, at a steady state, the inductor acts like a short...
When the switch connecting the RL circuit is closed, a brief muscle contraction is observed. This is because, at a steady state, the inductor acts like a short...
589
Drug Discovery: Overview
11.3K
Drug discovery is a multifaceted process involving extensive screening, testing, and optimization of lead compounds to identify potential new drugs for therapeutic use. It combines several approaches, including screening large numbers of natural products, chemical modification of known active molecules, identification of new drug targets, and rational design based on biological mechanisms and drug-receptor structure. These approaches are carried out in both academic research laboratories and...
11.3K
Multi-species Conserved Sequences
4.7K
Next-generation sequencing technologies have created large genomic databases of a variety of animals and plants. Ever since the human genome project was completed, scientists studied the genome of primates, mammals, and other phylogenetically distant living beings. Such large-scale studies have provided new insights into the evolutionary relationship between organisms.
Although the genome of each species varies greatly from each other, a few sequences are highly conserved. Such conserved...
Although the genome of each species varies greatly from each other, a few sequences are highly conserved. Such conserved...
4.7K


