Author(s):
Canelas Boieiro, Mário Rui ; Oliveira, Raúl ; Costa, Ricardo ; Borges, Paulo
Date: 2025
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/8782
Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
Subject(s): alien species; island endemics; generalist species; intensive pastures; pan traps; seminatural pastures; transect sampling; alien species; alien species; island endemics; island endemics; generalist species; generalist species; intensive pastures; intensive pastures; pan traps; pan traps; seminatural pastures; seminatural pastures; transect sampling; transect sampling
Description
ABSTRACT: Azorean biodiversity is relatively well-known following important scientific contributions during the last three decades. These have set a comprehensive species checklist for the Archipelago, improved significantly the knowledge on species abundance, ecology and distribution and have contributed to define priorities for conservation management and scientific research. Nevertheless, despite these efforts, a key functional group - the pollinators - remains poorly known in Azores, including their occurrence in different habitat-types and islands. Insect pollinators play a key ecological role and a valuable ecosystem service being crucial to having basic information on their abundance, distribution and ecology and a good knowledge on the status of their populations, if we aim to ensure the long-term sustainability of terrestrial ecosystems. Furthermore, island ecosystems are facing significant pressures from land-use and climatic changes and, from the increasing arrival of alien species to these remote areas, presenting a pressing need to assess the effects of these factors on island pollinators and pollination.
