Project/scholarship details
- Project/scholarship ID
104571
- Reference
PTDC/BIA-BEC/104571/2008
- FundRef URI
- Funder
FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
- Funder's country
Portugal
- Funding program
3599-PPCDT
- Funding amount
120,000.00 €
- Start date
2010-03-01
- End date
2012-11-30
Documents
Evidence for multiple founding lineages and genetic admixture in the evolution ...
Faria, Christiana; Machado, António; Amorim, Isabel R.; Gage, Matthew J. G.; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Emerson, Brent C.AIM: To infer colonization and speciation history for a closely related complex of nine species within the enigmatic Canary Island Laparocerus weevil radiation of 128 species. Using molecular dating and the spatial and temporal context that islands provide, we evaluate the possible explanations of incomplete lineage sorting and gene flow for the origin of shared genetic variation among species from different is...
Bugs and Society I : Raising Awareness About Endemic Biodiversity
Arroz, Ana Margarida Moura; Gabriel, Rosalina; Amorim, Isabel R.; Marcos, Rita S.; Borges, Paulo A. V.The negative impact of biodiversity loss on ecosystem functioning and services, and ultimately on human well-being, has been unequivocally established; however, despite all efforts, biodiversity is still declining worldwide. It is widely accepted that biodiversity awareness is crucial for its conservation. Nevertheless, after many initiatives to alert society about the consequences of losing biodiversity, biodi...
Bugs and Society II : Testing Two Communication Strategies for Public Engagemen...
Amorim, Isabel R.; Arroz, Ana Margarida Moura; Marcos, Rita S.; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Gabriel, RosalinaTwo initiatives to raise biodiversity awareness towards Azorean endemic species, an outdoor exhibition Açorianos há milhões de anos (Azoreans for millions of years) and a web contest to name insects Chama-lhe Nomes! (Pick a Name!), are presented in this chapter. Both communicational strategies targeted non-traditional audiences, relied on the Portuguese and Azorean cultural identity and on anthropic verisimilit...
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...
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, CarlaBACKGROUND: 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...
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