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- Monitoring of potential invasive arthropod species in Azores Islands (Corvo, Flores, Faial, Pico, Terceira, São Miguel and Santa Maria): The PRIBES ProjectPublication . Leite, Abrão; Canelas Boieiro, Mário Rui; Costa Miranda Soares, António Onofre; Ros Prieto, Alejandra; Costa, Ricardo; Pozsgai, Gabor; Oyarzabal da Silva, Guilherme; Coelho Teixeira, Mário; Calado, Hugo Renato; Lago, Alexandra; Vounatsi, Martha; Gabriel, Rosalina; Wallon, Sophie; Crespo, Luís Carlos; Gil de Gómez, Juan; Henriques Alves Ferreira, Maria Teresa; Lhoumeau, Sébastien Georges André; Borges, P.A.V.; Ruzzier, EnricoABSTRACT: Arthropods provide essential ecosystem services, yet multiple lines of evidence indicate widespread declines driven by habitat loss (degradation, fragmentation and reduction), biological invasions and climate change. Oceanic islands are particularly vulnerable to invasive alien species because of their isolation, small area and sensitivity to novel predators, competitors and pathogens. In the Azores, historical land-use change has greatly reduced native forest cover, while long-term monitoring indicates that introduced arthropod diversity is increasing even where total richness appears stable. However, ruderal coastal habitats (i.e. transitional, frequently disturbed environments often dominated by opportunistic exotic plants) remain comparatively under-sampled and may function as early “gateways” for new arthropod introductions. The PRIBES project intends to contribute to "The Regional Strategy for the Management of Terrestrial and Freshwater Exotic and Invasive Species in the Azores" (PRIBES-LIFE-IP- Estratégia regional para o controlo e prevenção de espécies exóticas invasoras - no âmbito do projeto LIFE IP AZORES NATURA, LIFE17 IPE/PT/000010). The PRIBES project addresses this gap by surveying arthropod assemblages associated with vascular plants in disturbed coastal ruderal habitats across multiple Azorean islands (Corvo, Flores, Faial, Pico, Terceira, São Miguel and Santa Maria) using a standardised time-based plant beating protocol, enabling comparisons of richness and colonisation status (endemic, native or exotic) amongst islands and vegetation contexts.