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Publication . Amorim, Isabel R.; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Pereira, Fernando E. A. P.; Wayne, Robert K.
Many of the endemic species that are found on islands have very restricted distributions and naturally small population sizes, being therefore highly susceptible to extinction. Arthropods are among the animal groups most severely affected by extinction on islands, and although they represent more than half of the Azorean terrestrial endemic species, they were not used to assess conservation priorities in the Azores. In this study we used a multidisciplinary approach, including field surveys, traditional taxonomy, molecular assays, and the speciose beetle genera Tarphius and Trechus, to evaluate the adequacy of protected areas in the Azores in biodiversity preservation. The data indicate that the area protected in the Azores is insufficient to guarantee the maintenance of species richness and genetic diversity of endemic Tarphius and Trechus beetles. Because all Tarphius and Trechus populations had exclusive haplotypes, and genetic variability within species is geographically structure, we argue that they should be treated as distinct conservation units and that the maximum number of populations should be protected in order to preserve current levels of biodiversity, and thus arrest the generalized trend of insular biodiversity decline.
Publication . Borges, Paulo A. V.; Cardoso, Pedro; Guerreiro, Orlando; Rigal, François; Florencio, Margarita; Amorim, Isabel R.; Borda-de-Água, Luís; Cascalho, José Manuel; Ferreira, Miguel
There is an urgent need of new methodologies in ecological and conservation science to deal with increasingly complex problems. We introduce four emerging research areas in ecology in which Artificial Intelligence may be explored as a tool to tackle unsolved issues in island ecosystems: (1) modeling abundance of plant and animal species in space and time; (2) modeling spread of invasive species; (3) estimating species richness based on incomplete sampling and (4) modeling speciation and diversification in insular habitats.
