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ABSTRACT: The data we present are part of the long-term project SLAM – Long Term Ecological Study of the Impacts of Climate Change in the natural forest of Azores, which was established in 2012 to monitor arthropod communities in Azorean forest habitats using standardised long-term ecological sampling. The main aim of this project is to understand how major biodiversity erosion drivers, including habitat degradation, biological invasions and climate-related pressures, affect the distribution, abundance and diversity of Azorean arthropods through time. Long-term monitoring is particularly relevant on oceanic islands, where biodiversity change may be expressed more strongly through species turnover, shifts in community composition and increases in introduced taxa than through immediate declines in total species richness. The SLAM framework also contributes to the early detection and documentation of new species occurrences, thereby improving baseline knowledge for conservation planning, biodiversity assessment and biosecurity. Sampling relies on passive flight-interception SLAM (Sea, Land and Air Malaise) traps, which are operated continuously and serviced at regular intervals to provide comparable seasonal and interannual samples.
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Arthropoda Azores introduced species long-term monitoring native forest SLAM traps species records
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Vounatsi, M., Lhoumeau, S., Dal Lago, A., Wallon, S., Crespo, L. C., Picanço, C. F. S., Raposo, P. M. L. & Borges, P. A. V. (2026). SLAM Project - Long-Term Ecological Study of the Impacts of Climate Change in the natural forest of Azores: VII - Long-term arthropod monitoring in Graciosa Island. Biodiversity Data Journal, 14: e194216. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.14. e194216
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Pensoft Publishers