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Conservation workshop in Okinawa: urgent action needed for land hermit crabs
Hsu, Chia-Hsuan; Reimer, James Davis; Naruse, Tohru; Miller, Shawn; Henriques, SérgioOn 21 April 2025, in support of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Invertebrate Conservation Committee’s efforts to address taxonomic gaps in underrepresented regions, a workshop was held in Okinawa, Japan, bringing together researchers and stakeholders to discuss challenges in land hermit crab conservation. Recent cases of illegal trafficking of thousands of land hermit crabs from the Ryukyu Islands to Indon...
Analyzing the safety of the parasiticide fungus Mucor circinelloides : first in...
Lozano, João; Cunha, Eva; Almeida, Cristina; Nunes, Mónica; Dias, Ricardo; Vicente, Eduardo; Sebastião, Daniela; Henriques, SérgioParasiticide fungi are considered an accurate, sustainable, and safe solution for the biocontrol of animal gastrointestinal (GI) parasites. This research provides an initial characterization of the virulence of the native parasiticide fungus Mucor circinelloides (FMV-FR1) and an assessment of its impact on birds’ gut microbes. The genome of this fungus was sequenced to identify the genes coding for virulence fa...
Analyzing the safety of the parasiticide fungus Mucor circinelloides: first ins...
Lozano, João; Cunha, Eva; Almeida, Cristina; Nunes, Mónica; Dias, Ricardo; Vicente, Eduardo; Sebastião, Daniela; Henriques, SérgioParasiticide fungi are considered an accurate, sustainable, and safe solution for the biocontrol of animal gastrointestinal (GI) parasites. This research provides an initial characterization of the virulence of the native parasiticide fungus Mucor circinelloides (FMV-FR1) and an assessment of its impact on birds’ gut microbes. The genome of this fungus was sequenced to identify the genes coding for virulence fa...
International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery
Harvey, Jeffrey A.; Heinen, Robin; Armbrecht, Inge; Basset, Yves; Baxter-Gilbert, James H.; Bezemer, T. Martijn; Böhm, Monika; Bommarco, RiccardoA growing number of studies are providing evidence that a suite of anthropogenic stressors — habitat loss and fragmentation, pollution, invasive species, climate change and overharvesting — are seriously reducing insect and other invertebrate abundance, diversity and biomass across the biosphere. These declines affect all functional groups: herbivores, detritivores, parasitoids, predators and pollinators. Insec...
Produção de ópera num contexto criativo contemporâneo
Mateus, Sílvia; Marecos, Carlos; Henriques, Sérgio; Roque, AlbertoEste projeto levou à cena duas produções de ópera, numa colaboração entre várias áreas de especialidade da Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (ESML) como o canto, a composição e as áreas de instrumento e de música de câmara.
Determinants of spider species richness in coastal dunes along a gradient of me...
Carvalho, José Carlos; Cardoso, Pedro; Crespo, Luís C.; Henriques, Sérgio; Carvalho, Rui; Gomes, Pedro1. The Iberian Peninsula is one of the most relevant areas in terms of species richness, rarity and endemism in the Mediterranean Basin. Using spiders as a model, we studied the relative importance of environmental and non-environmental spatial variation along a gradient of mediterraneity on the western coast of the Iberian Peninsula. 2. We performed a spatially explicit analysis to evaluate the contribution of...
Species richness and composition assessment of spiders in a Mediterranean scrub...
Cardoso, Pedro; Henriques, Sérgio; Gaspar, Clara; Crespo, Luis; Carvalho, Rui; Schmidt, Jesper; Sousa, Pedro; Szuts, TamásAbstract Intensive fieldwork has been undertaken in Portugal in order to develop a standardized and optimized sampling protocol for Mediterranean spiders. The present study had the objectives of testing the use of semi-quantitative sampling for obtaining an exhaustive species richness assessment of spiders and testing the effects of day, time of day, collector and sampling method on the collected species richne...