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- Standardised inventories of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Macaronesia III: dry habitats of Cabo Verde Archipelago (São Vicente and Santo Antão)Publication . Crespo, Luís; Cardoso, Pedro; Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba; Pereira, Fernando; Romeiras, Maria M.; Ros Prieto, Alejandra; Rigal, François; Borges, Paulo A. V.Background With this publication, we contribute to the knowledge of the arachnofauna of Cabo Verde, focusing specifically on the Islands of Santo Antão and São Vicente. Data were obtained from samples collected as part of the project "Macaronesian Islands as a testing ground to assess biodiversity drivers at multiple scales" (FCT - MACDIV, 2015-2018). This project aimed to identify the factors influencing community assembly in Macaronesian islands. For the Cabo Verde Islands, we focused on dry habitats with the additional aim to revise the aracnofauna of this poorly-known fauna. We applied the COBRA (Conservation Oriented Biodiversity Rapid Assessment) sampling protocol in ten 50 m x 50 m dry shrub plots, with five on each of the two islands, using pitfall traps, sweep-netting and active search. Additional ad-hoc samples were also collected and reported. New information Our sampling of spiders from Cabo Verde (Santo Antão and São Vicente) yielded a total of 3,368 specimens, of which 1300 (39%) were adults. T
- In defence of the entity of Macaronesia as a biogeographical regionPublication . Fernández‐Palacios, José María; Otto, Rüdiger; Capelo, Jorge; Caujapé‐Castells, Juli; De Nascimento, Lea; Duarte, Maria Cristina; Elias, Rui B.; García‐Verdugo, Carlos; Menezes de Sequeira, Miguel; Médail, Frédéric; Naranjo‐Cigala, Agustín; Patiño, Jairo; Price, Jonathan; Romeiras, Maria M.; Sánchez‐Pinto, Lázaro; Whittaker, RobertSince its coinage ca. 1850 AD by Philip Barker Webb, the biogeographical region of Macaronesia, consisting of the North Atlantic volcanic archipelagos of the Azores, Madeira with the tiny Selvagens, the Canaries and Cabo Verde, and for some authors different continental coastal strips, has been under dispute. Herein, after a brief introduction on the terminology and purpose of regionalism, we recover the origins of the Macaronesia name, concept and geographical adscription, as well as its biogeographical implications and how different authors have positioned themselves, using distinct terrestrial or marine floristic and/or faunistic taxa distributions and relationships for accepting or rejecting the existence of this biogeographical region. Four main issues related to Macaronesia are thoroughly discussed: (i) its independence from the Mediterranean phytogeographical region; (ii) discrepancies according to different taxa analysed; (iii) its geographical limits and the role of the continental enclave(s), and, (iv) the validity of the phytogeographical region level. We conclude that Macaronesia has its own identity and a sound phytogeographical foundation, and that this is mainly based on three different floristic components that are shared by the Macaronesian core (Madeira and the Canaries) and the outermost archipelagos (Azores and Cabo Verde). These floristic components are: (i) the Palaeotropical-Tethyan Geoflora, formerly much more widely distributed in Europe and North Africa and currently restricted to the three northern archipelagos (the Azores, Madeira and the Canaries); (ii) the African Rand Flora, still extant in the coastal margins of Africa and Arabia, and present in the southern archipelagos (Madeira, the Canaries and Cabo Verde), and (iii) the Macaronesian neoendemic floristic component, represented in all the archipelagos, a result of allopatric diversification promoted by isolation of Mediterranean ancestors that manage to colonize Central Macaronesia and, from there, the outer archipelagos. Finally, a differentiating floristic component recently colonized the different archipelagos from the nearest continental coast, providing them with different biogeographic flavours.
- The European Reference Genome Atlas: piloting a decentralised approach to equitable biodiversity genomics.Publication . Mc Cartney, Ann M.; Formenti, Giulio; Mouton, Alice; De Panis, Diego; Marins, Luísa S; Leitão, Henrique; Diedericks, Genevieve; KIRANGWA, JOSEPH; Morselli, Marco; Salces-Ortiz, J; Escudero, Nuria; Iannucci, Alessio; Natali, Chiara; Svardal, Hannes; Fernández, Rosa; De Pooter, Tim; Joris, Geert; Strazisar, Mojca; Wood, Jo; Herron, Katie E.; Seehausen, Ole; Watts, Phillip; Shaw, Felix; Davey, Robert P; Minotto, Alice; Fernández, José M; Böhne, Astrid; Alegria, C.; Alioto, Tyler; Alves, Paulo C; Amorim, Isabel R.; AURY, Jean-Marc; Backstrom, Niclas; Baldrian, Petr; Baltrunaite, Laima; Barta, Endre; Bed'Hom, Bertrand; Belser, Caroline; Bergsten, Johannes; Bertrand, Laurie; Bilandzija, Helena; Binzer-Panchal, Mahesh; Bista, Iliana; Blaxter, Mark; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Borges Dias, Guilherme; Bosse, Mirte; Brown, Tom; Bruggmann, Rémy; Buena-Atienza, Elena; Burgin, Josephine; Buzan, Elena; Casadei, Nicolas Lougi Pascal; CHIARA, MATTEO; Chozas, Sergio; Čiampor, Fedor; Crottini, Angelica; C., Cruaud; Cruz, Fernando; Dalén, Love; DE BIASE, Alessio; Campo, Javier Del; Delić, Teo; Dennis, Alice B; Derks, Martijn FL; Diroma, Maria Angela; Djan, Mihajla; Duprat, Simone; Eleftheriadi, Klara; Feulner, Philine GD; Flot, Jean-François; Forni, Giobbe; Fosso, Bruno; Fournier, Pascal; FOURNIER-CHAMBRILON, Christine; Gabaldón, Toni; Garg, Shilpa; Gissi, Carmela; Giupponi, Luca; Gómez-Garrido, Jèssica; Gonzalez, Josefa; Grilo, Miguel; Gruening, Bjoern; Guérin, Thomas; Guiglielmoni, Nadège; Gut, Marta; Haesler, Marcel P; Hahn, Christoph; Halpern, Balint; Harrison, Peter; Heintz, Julia; Hindrikson, Maris; Höglund, Jacob; Howe, Kerstin; Hughes, Graham; Istace, Benjamin; Cock, Mark J.; Jancekovic, Franc; Jónsson, Zophonías O; Joye-Dind, Sagane; Koskimaki, Janne J.; Krystufek, Boris; Kubacka, Justyna; Kuhl, Heiner; Kusza, Szilvia; Labadie, Karine; Lahteenaro, Meri; Lantz, Henrik; Lavrinienko, Anton; Leclere, Lucas; Lopes, Ricardo Jorge; Madsen, Ole; Magdelenat, Ghislaine; MAGOGA, GIULIA; Manousaki, Tereza; Mappes, Tapio; Marques, João Pedro; Martinez Redondo, Gemma I; Maumus, Florian; Megens, Hendrik-Jan; Melo-Ferreira, José; Mendes, Sofia L; Montagna, Matteo; Moreno, João; Mosbech, Mai-Britt; Moura, Monica; Musilova, Zuzana; Myers, Eugene; Nash, Will J.; Nater, Alexander; Nicholson, Pamela; Niell, Manuel; Nijland, Reindert; Noel, Benjamin; Norén, Karin; Oliveira, Pedro H; Olsen, Remi-André; Ometto, Lino; Ossowski, Stephan; Palinauskas, Vaidas; Pálsson, Snæbjörn; Panibe, Jerome P; Paupério, Joana; Pavlek, Martina; PAYEN, Emilie; Pawłowska, Julia; Pellicer, Jaume; Pesole, Graziano; Pimenta, João; Pippel, Martin; Pirttilä, Anna Maria; Poulakakis, Nikos; Rajan, Jeena; Rego, Ruben MC; Resendes, Roberto; Resl, Philipp; Riesgo, Ana; Rödin-Mörch, Patrik; Soares, André ER; Fernandes, Carlos; Romeiras, Maria M.; Roxo, Guilherme; Rüber, Lukas; Ruiz-López, María José; Saarma, Urmas; Silva, Luís; Sim-Sim, Manuela; Soler, Lucile; Sousa, Vitor C; Sousa-Santos, C.; Spada, Alberto; Stefanovic, Milomir; Steger, Viktor; Stiller, Josefin; Stöck, Matthias; Struck, Torsten Hugo H; Sudasinghe, Hiranya; Tapanainen, Riikka; Tellgren-Roth, Christian; Trindade, Helena; Tukalenko, Yevhen; Urso, Ilenia; Vacherie, Benoit; Van Belleghem, Steven M; Van Oers, Kees; Vargas-Chavez, Carlos; Velickovic, Nevena; Vella, Noel; Vella, Adriana; Vernesi, Cristiano; Vicente, Sara; Villa, Sara; Vinnere Pettersson, Olga; Volckaert, Filip AM; Vörös, Judit; Wincker, Patrick; Winkler, Sylke; CIOFI, CLAUDIO; Waterhouse, Robert M; Mazzoni, Camila J.ABSTRACT: A global genome database of all of Earth’s species diversity could be a treasure trove of scientific discoveries. However, regardless of the major advances in genome sequencing technologies, only a tiny fraction of species have genomic information available. To contribute to a more complete planetary genomic database, scientists and institutions across the world have united under the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), which plans to sequence and assemble high-quality reference genomes for all ∼1.5 million recognized eukaryotic species through a stepwise phased approach. As the initiative transitions into Phase II, where 150,000 species are to be sequenced in just four years, worldwide participation in the project will be fundamental to success. As the European node of the EBP, the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) seeks to implement a new decentralised, accessible, equitable and inclusive model for producing high-quality reference genomes, which will inform EBP as it scales. To embark on this mission, ERGA launched a Pilot Project to establish a network across Europe to develop and test the first infrastructure of its kind for the coordinated and distributed reference genome production on 98 European eukaryotic species from sample providers across 33 European countries. Here we outline the process and challenges faced during the development of a pilot infrastructure for the production of reference genome resources, and explore the effectiveness of this approach in terms of high-quality reference genome production, considering also equity and inclusion. The outcomes and lessons learned during this pilot provide a solid foundation for ERGA while offering key learnings to other transnational and national genomic resource projects.