Project/scholarship details

  • Funder

    FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.

  • Funder's country

    Portugal

  • Funding program

    3599-PPCDT

  • Funding amount

    194,907.00 €

  • Start date

    2010-03-01

  • End date

    2013-06-30

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Drivers of extinction : the case of Azorean beetles

Terzopoulou, Sofia; Rigal, François; Whittaker, Robert J.; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Triantis, Kostas A.

Oceanic islands host a disproportionately high fraction of endangered or recently extinct endemic species. We report on species extinctions among endemic Azorean beetles following 97% habitat loss since AD 1440. We infer extinctions from historical and contemporary records and examine the influence of three predictors: geographical range, habitat specialization and body size. Of 55 endemic beetle species invest...

Date: 2015   |   Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
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Comparative phylogeography of endemic Azorean arthropods

Parmakelis, Aristeidis; Rigal, François; Mourikis, Thanos; Balanika, Katerina; Terzopoulou, Sofia; Rego, Carla; Amorim, Isabel R.; Crespo, Luís C.

BACKGROUND: For a remote oceanic archipelago of up to 8 Myr age, the Azores have a comparatively low level of endemism. We present an analysis of phylogeographic patterns of endemic Azorean island arthropods aimed at testing patterns of diversification in relation to the ontogeny of the archipelago, in order to distinguish between alternative models of evolutionary dynamics on islands. We collected individuals ...

Date: 2015   |   Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
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New records and detailed distribution and abundance of selected arthropod speci...

Borges, Paulo A. V.; Gaspar, Clara; Crespo, Luís C.; Rigal, François; Cardoso, Pedro; Pereira, Fernando; Rego, Carla; Amorim, Isabel; Melo, Catarina

BACKGROUND: In this contribution we present detailed distribution and abundance data for arthropod species identified during the BALA – Biodiversity of Arthropods from the Laurisilva of the Azores (1999-2004) and BALA2 projects (2010-2011) from 18 native forest fragments in seven of the nine Azorean islands (all excluding Graciosa and Corvo islands, which have no native forest left). NEW INFORMATION: Of the tot...

Date: 2016   |   Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
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Cryptic diversity in Azorean beetle genus Tarphius Erichson, 1845 (Coleoptera: ...

Borges, Paulo A. V.; Amorim, Isabel R.; Terzopoulou, Sofia; Rigal, François; Emerson, Brent C.; Serrano, Artur R. M.

Recent findings based on molecular data support the occurrence in the Azores of several independently evolving lineages of the beetle genus Tarphius Erichson, 1845 (Coleoptera: Zopheridae Solier, 1834) and higher species richness masked by cryptic diversity, needing formal taxonomic description. All Tarphius from the Azores are revised using an integrative taxonomic approach, using evidence from morphology, mor...

Date: 2017   |   Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
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Conservation status of the forest beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Azores, Po...

Borges, Paulo A. V.; Lamelas López, Lucas; Amorim, Isabel R.; Danielczak, Anja; Nunes, Rui; Serrano, Artur R. M.; Boieiro, Mário; Rego, Carla

BACKGROUND: Island biodiversity is under considerable pressure due to the ongoing threats of invasive alien species, land use change or climate change. The few remnants of Azorean native forests harbour a unique set of endemic beetles, some of them possibly already extinct or under severe long term threat due to the small areas of the remaining habitats or climatic changes. In this contribution we present the I...

Date: 2017   |   Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
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Population structure, adaptation and divergence of the meadow spittlebug, Phila...

Seabra, Sofia G.; Rodrigues, Ana S. B.; Silva, Sara E.; Neto, Ana Carina; Pina-Martins, Francisco; Marabuto, Eduardo; Thompson, Vinton

Understanding patterns of population differentiation and gene flow in insect vectors of plant diseases is crucial for the implementation of management programs of disease. We investigated morphological and genome-wide variation across the distribution range of the spittlebug Philaenus spumarius (Linnaeus, 1758) (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Aphrophoridae), presently the most important vector of the plant pathoge...

Date: 2021   |   Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
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