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- Collective and harmonized high throughput barcoding of insular arthropod biodiversity: Toward a Genomic Observatories Network for islandsPublication . Emerson, Brent C.; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Cardoso, Pedro; Convey, Peter; deWaard, Jeremy R.; Economo, Evan P.; Gillespie, Rosemary G.; Kennedy, Susan; Krehenwinkel, Henrik; Meier, Rudolf; Roderick, George K.; Strasberg, Dominique; Thébaud, Christophe; Traveset, Anna; Creedy, Thomas J.; Meramveliotakis, Emmanouil; Noguerales, Víctor; Overcast, Isaac; Morlon, Hélène; Papadopoulou, Anna; Vogler, Alfried P.; Arribas, Paula; Andújar, CarmeloABSTRACT: Current understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes underlying island biodiversity is heavily shaped by empirical data from plants and birds, although arthropods comprise the overwhelming majority of known animal species, and as such can provide key insights into processes governing biodiversity. Novel high throughput sequencing (HTS) approaches are now emerging as powerful tools to overcome limitations in the availability of arthropod biodiversity data, and hence provide insights into these processes. Here, we explored how these tools might be most effectively exploited for comprehensive and comparable inventory and monitoring of insular arthropod biodiversity. We first reviewed the strengths, limitations and potential synergies among existing approaches of high throughput barcode sequencing. We considered how this could be complemented with deep learning approaches applied to image analysis to study arthropod biodiversity. We then explored how these approaches could be implemented within the framework of an island Genomic Observatories Network (iGON) for the advancement of fundamental and applied understanding of island biodiversity. To this end, we identified seven island biology themes at the interface of ecology, evolution and conservation biology, within which collective and harmonized efforts in HTS arthropod inventory could yield significant advances in island biodiversity research.
- Cómo la Macaronesia ha influido en nuestra perspectiva sobre los ecosistemas insularesPublication . Santos, Ana M. C.; Florencio, Margarita; Nogué, Sandra; Patiño, Jairo; Traveset, Anna; Borges, Paulo A. V.Actualmente el estudio de los ecosistemas insulares está pasando por un momento de constantes avances, siendo muchas de las nuevas y relevantes aportaciones fruto de estudios desarrollados en la Macaronesia (Azores, Canarias, Cabo Verde y Madeira). Ésta ha sido la mayor motivación para que el IBIG (Island Biology Interest Group – grupo de interés especial dentro de la AEET y de la SPECO) organizara un simposio dedicado a la Macaronesia, dentro del congreso internacional “Island Biology 2016 – II International Conference on Island Evolution, Ecology and Conservation”, realizado entre los días 18 y 22 de Julio, en Angra do Heroismo (isla Terceira, Azores), Portugal. El objetivo principal del simposio ha sido presentar una visión general de la investigación pasada y presente desarrollada en la región Macaronésica, colocándola en el contexto general de la biogeografía de islas. [...].
- Macaronesia as a Fruitful Arena for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation BiologyPublication . Florencio, Margarita; Patiño, Jairo; Nogué, Sandra; Traveset, Anna; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Schaefer, Hanno; Amorim, Isabel R.; Arnedo, Miquel A.; Ávila, Sérgio P.; Cardoso, Pedro; Nascimento, Lea; Fernández-Palacios, José María; Gabriel, Sofia I.; Gil, Artur José Freire; Gonçalves, Vitor; Haroun, Ricardo J.; Illera, Juan Carlos; López-Darias, Marta; Martínez, Alejandro; Martins, Gustavo M.; Neto, Ana I.; Nogales, Manuel; Oromí, Pedro; Rando, Juan Carlos; Raposeiro, Pedro M.; Rigal, François; Romeiras, Maria M.; Silva, Luís; Valido, Alfredo; Vanderpoorten, Alain; Vasconcelos, Raquel; Santos, Ana M. C.Research in Macaronesia has led to substantial advances in ecology, evolution and conservation biology. We review the scientific developments achieved in this region, and outline promising research avenues enhancing conservation. Some of these discoveries indicate that the Macaronesian flora and fauna are composed of rather young lineages, not Tertiary relicts, predominantly of European origin. Macaronesia also seems to be an important source region for back-colonisation of continental fringe regions on both sides of the Atlantic. This group of archipelagos (Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, Canary Islands, and Cabo Verde) has been crucial to learn about the particularities of macroecological patterns and interaction networks on islands, providing evidence for the development of the General Dynamic Model of oceanic island biogeography and subsequent updates. However, in addition to exceptionally high richness of endemic species, Macaronesia is also home to a growing number of threatened species, along with invasive alien plants and animals. Several innovative conservation and management actions are in place to protect its biodiversity from these and other drivers of global change. The Macaronesian Islands are a well-suited field of study for island ecology and evolution research, mostly due to its special geological layout with 40 islands grouped within five archipelagos differing in geological age, climate and isolation. A large amount of data is now available for several groups of organisms on and around many of these islands. However, continued efforts should be made toward compiling new information on their biodiversity, to pursue various fruitful research avenues and develop appropriate conservation management tools.
- Stone-stacking as a looming threat to rock-dwelling biodiversityPublication . Rocha, Ricardo; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Cardoso, Pedro; Kusrini, Mirza D.; Martín-Esquivel, José L.; Menezes, Dilia; Ferreira, Mário Mota; Nunes, Sara F.; Órfão, Inês; Gonçalves, Catarina Serra; Sim-Sim, Manuela; Sepúlveda, Pedro; Teixeira, Dinarte; Traveset, AnnaThis letter to the editor describes the surge of “photo-friendly” stacks of stones as an emerging tourism-associated threat to rock-dwelling biodiversity.