For all audiences : Incorporating immature stages into standardised spider inventories has a major impact on the assessment of biodiversity patterns

Domènech, Marc; Wangensteen, Owen S.; Enguídanos, Alba; Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba; Arnedo, Miquel A.

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For all audiences : Incorporating immature stages into standardised spider inventories has a major impact on the assessment of biodiversity patterns

2022-05Journal article

dc.contributor.author	Domènech, Marc
dc.contributor.author	Wangensteen, Owen S.
dc.contributor.author	Enguídanos, Alba
dc.contributor.author	Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba
dc.contributor.author	Arnedo, Miquel A.
dc.date.accessioned	2022-12-08T17:42:40Z
dc.date.available	2022-12-08T17:42:40Z
dc.date.issued	2022-05
dc.description.abstract	Although arthropods are the largest component of animal diversity, they are traditionally underrepresented in biological inventories and monitoring programmes. However, no biodiversity assessment can be considered informative without including them. Arthropod immature stages are often discarded during sorting, despite frequently representing more than half of the collected individuals. To date, little effort has been devoted to characterising the impact of discarding nonadult specimens on our diversity estimates. Here, we used a metabarcoding approach to analyse spiders from oak forests in the Iberian Peninsula, to assess (1) the contribution of juvenile stages to local diversity estimates, and (2) their effect on the diversity patterns (compositional differences) across assemblages. We further investigated the ability of metabarcoding to inform on abundance. We obtained 363 and 331 species as adults and juveniles, respectively. Including the species represented only by juveniles increased the species richness of the whole sampling in 35% with respect to those identified from adults. Differences in composition between assemblages were greatly reduced when immature stages were considered, especially across latitudes, possibly due to phenological differences. Moreover, our results revealed that metabarcoding data are to a certain extent quantitative, but some sort of taxonomic conversion factor may be necessary to provide accurate informative estimates. Although our findings do not question the relevance of the information provided by adult-based inventories, they also reveal that juveniles provide a novel and relevant layer of knowledge that, especially in areas with marked seasonality, may influence our interpretations, providing more accurate information from standardised biological inventories.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Generalitat de Catalunya, Grant/Award Number: 2017SGR73; Organismo Autónomo de Parques Nacionales, Grant/Award Number: 485/2012; Universitat de Barcelona.	pt_PT
dc.description.version	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion	pt_PT
dc.identifier.citation	Domènech, M., Wangensteen, O. S., Enguídanos, A., Malumbres‐Olarte, J. & Arnedo, M. A. (2022). For all audiences: incorporating immature stages into standardised spider inventories has a major impact on the assessment of biodiversity patterns. "Molecular Ecology Resources", 22(6), 2319-2332. DOI:10.1111/1755-0998.13625	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1111/1755-0998.13625	pt_PT
dc.identifier.eissn	1755-0998
dc.identifier.issn	1755-098X
dc.identifier.pmid	35466537
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/6483
dc.identifier.wos	000790654100001
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Wiley	pt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1755-0998.13625	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Araneae	pt_PT
dc.subject	Diversity	en
dc.subject	DNA Barcoding	en
dc.subject	Iberian Peninsula	en
dc.subject	Metabarcoding	en
dc.subject	Spiders	en
dc.title	For all audiences : Incorporating immature stages into standardised spider inventories has a major impact on the assessment of biodiversity patterns	en
dc.type	journal article
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oaire.citation.conferencePlace	United Kingdom	en
oaire.citation.endPage	2332	pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue	(6)	pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage	2319	pt_PT
oaire.citation.title	Molecular Ecology Resources	en
oaire.citation.volume	22	pt_PT
person.familyName	Malumbres-Olarte
person.givenName	Jagoba
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person.identifier.orcid	0000-0002-6878-5719
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