要求在分类学中预先登记的请求

Megataxa Pub Date : 2023-04-27 DOI:10.11646/megataxa.10.1.1
S. Conix, Vincent Cuypers, F. Zachos, T. Artois, Marlies Monnens
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众所周知,有许多不同的物种定义和物种划界的方法,迫使分类学家在物种划界时做出长范围的方法决定。因此,有时会有多种可行的竞争方法路径,这可能导致不同的排名(甚至分组)决策。因此,一个群体被认定为一个物种意味着什么往往是不清楚的,被认定为物种的群体并不总是具有可比性,有些人甚至称排名决定是“主观的”。为了减轻这给分类学使用者和分类学家带来的问题,我们建议生命之树的分类学家应该开始在他们的研究之前预先登记他们的研究设计和物种划分标准。我们认为,即使需要额外的努力,从长远来看,预登记分类研究将极大地有利于分类学,因为它增加了分类结果的透明度和可用性,并减少了对特别方法决策的需求。
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A plea for preregistration in taxonomy
There are notoriously many different definitions of species and methods of species delimitation, forcing taxonomists to make a long range of methodological decisions in species delimitation. Because of this, there are sometimes multiple viable competing methodological paths, which could lead to different ranking (or even grouping) decisions. As a result, it is often unclear what it means for a group to be recognized as a species, the groups recognized as species are not always comparable, and some have even called ranking decisions ‘subjective’. To mitigate the problems this causes for users of taxonomy and taxonomists, we propose that taxonomists across the tree of life should start preregistering their research design and criteria for species delimitation in advance of their research. We argue that even if it were to require additional effort, preregistering taxonomic research would strongly benefit taxonomy in the long term, by increasing the transparency and usability of taxonomic outcomes and by reducing the need for ad hoc methodological decisions.
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