Biodiversity threats and understanding
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Skúli Skúlason gives a plenary talk

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Breaking the Ice: Exploring parasite biodiversity at high latitude

Variability among taxonomists in helminth species discrimination decisions: a noise audit

Robert Poulin et al. Int J Parasitol. 2025.

Bottom line, it is high!

#csbsp11 #taxanomy #parasite #splitters #lumpers #ecology #evolution #noise #decisionMaking

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40541603/

Variability among taxonomists in helminth species discrimination decisions: a noise audit - PubMed

Determining whether or not superficially similar helminth specimens belong to the same species can be challenging, even for expert taxonomists. The possibility of cryptic species and host-induced morphological variation, combined with the lack of universally accepted thresholds for what can be consi …

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Parasite conference in Iceland 2025

"Breaking the Ice: Exploring parasite biodiversity at high latitude"

Conference of the Scandinavian-Baltic Society for Parasitology

Opening talk by Robert Poulin

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