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A comprehensive trait dataset for Terrestrial Arthropods of the Azores: insight...
Oyarzabal da Silva, Guilherme; Rigal, François; Cardoso, Pedro; Amorim do Rosário, Isabel; Costa, Ricardo; Lhoumeau, Sébastien Georges AndréABSTRACT: Species functional traits provide critical insights into how organisms interact with and respond to their environment. Key characteristics, such as body size, dispersal ability and trophic specialisation influence species' survival, reproduction and adaptability. Island ecosystems, particularly oceanic archipelagos like the Azores, serve as ideal natural laboratories for studying these traits due to t...
Do Island Spiders Descend From Trees? – A Tale of Island Colonisation and Niche...
Costa, Ricardo; Macías-Hernández, Nuria; Rigal, François; Borges, P.A.V.; Cardoso, PedroABSTRACT: Aim Oceanic islands are known for being home to drastically different communities compared to the mainland, as their isolation and limited area significantly favour clades able to travel long distances over water. On spiders, this happens mainly, although not exclusively, through ballooning whose propensity is unevenly distributed across species and requires specific conditions, possibly influencing t...
Toward a global repository of insect traits (GRIT)
Cardoso, Pedro; Baker, Nathan; Canelas Boieiro, Mário Rui; Bonte, Dries; Borges, P.A.V.; Braby, Michael; Branco, Vasco; Chobanov, Dragan; Correia, LuísABSTRACT: The pace of biodiversity loss outstrips our ability to conserve Earth's most diverse group of named species—the insects (Arthropoda: Insecta). We increasingly rely on trait-based metrics to understand how insects respond to and affect their environment. Traits provide insights that aid conservation assessment and planning. Yet, we lack a centralised trait database for insects, hampering insights that ...
Optimal inventorying and monitoring of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional d...
Cardoso, Pedro; Arnedo, Miquel A.; Macías-Hernández, Nuria; Carvalho, William D.; Carvalho, José C.; Hilário, RenatoComparable data is essential to understand biodiversity patterns. While assemblage or community inventorying requires comprehensive sampling, monitoring focuses on as few components as possible to detect changes. Quantifying species, their evolutionary history, and the way they interact requires studying changes in taxonomic (TD), phylogenetic (PD) and functional diversity (FD). Here we propose a method for the...
How much biodiversity is concealed in the word ‘biodiversity’?
Mammola, Stefano; Fukushima, Caroline S.; Biondo, Girolama; Bongiorni, Lucia; Cianferoni, Fabio; Domenici, Paolo; Fruciano, CarmeloAmidst a global biodiversity crisis1, the word ‘biodiversity’ has become indispensable for conservation and management2. Yet, biodiversity is often used as a buzzword in scientific literature. Resonant titles of papers claiming to have studied ‘global biodiversity’ may be used to promote research focused on a few taxonomic groups, habitats, or facets of biodiversity — taxonomic, (phylo)genetic, or functional. T...
The World Spider Trait database : a centralized global open repository for cura...
Pekár, Stano; Wolff, Jonas O.; Černecká, Ľudmila; Birkhofer, Klaus; Mammola, Stefano; Lowe, Elizabeth C.; Fukushima, Caroline S.; Herberstein, Marie E.Spiders are a highly diversified group of arthropods and play an important role in terrestrial ecosystems as ubiquitous predators, which makes them a suitable group to test a variety of eco-evolutionary hypotheses. For this purpose, knowledge of a diverse range of species traits is required. Until now, data on spider traits have been scattered across thousands of publications produced for over two centuries and...
Building a robust, densely-sampled spider tree of life for ecosystem research
Macías-Hernández, Nuria; Domènech, Marc; Cardoso, Pedro; Emerson, Brent C.; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Lozano-Fernandez, Jesús; Paulo, Octávio S.; Vieira, AnaPhylogenetic relatedness is a key diversity measure for the analysis and understanding of how species and communities evolve across time and space. Understanding the nonrandom loss of species with respect to phylogeny is also essential for better-informed conservation decisions. However, several factors are known to influence phylogenetic reconstruction and, ultimately, phylogenetic diversity metrics. In this s...
Building a Robust, Densely-Sampled Spider Tree of Life for Ecosystem Research
Macías-Hernández, Nuria; Domènech, Marc; Cardoso, Pedro; Emerson, Brent C.; Borges, Paulo Alexandre Vieira; Lozano-Fernandez, Jesús; Paulo, Octávio S.Phylogenetic relatedness is a key diversity measure for the analysis and understanding of how species and communities evolve across time and space. Understanding the nonrandom loss of species with respect to phylogeny is also essential for better-informed conservation decisions. However, several factors are known to influence phylogenetic reconstruction and, ultimately, phylogenetic diversity metrics. In this s...
Catalogue of the type material in the entomological collection of the Universit...
Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S.; Pérez, Antonio José; López, Heriberto; Macías-Hernández, Nuria; De Le Cruz, Salvador; Oromí, PedroA catalogue of arachnid type specimens of the collection kept at the Department of Animal Biology, University of La Laguna (Spain) is presented. It harbours type material of 104 species belonging to 23 families of arachnids, represented by 21 holotypes and 164 paratypes for 23 species of pseudoscorpions, and 49 holotypes, 218 paratypes and 3 syntypes for 81 species of spiders. This collection is using the crite...