Jeffrey A. Harvey, Kévin Tougeron, Rieta Gols, Robin Heinen et al.
Abstract Climate warming is considered to be among the most serious of anthropogenic stresses to the environment, because it not only has direct effects on biodiversity, but it also exacerbates the harmful effects of other human‐mediated threats. The associated consequences are potentially severe, p...
Stefano Mammola, Pedro Cardoso, David C. Culver, Louis Deharveng et al.
Abstract In light of recent alarming trends in human population growth, climate change, and other environmental modifications, a “Warning to humanity” manifesto was published in BioScience in 2017. This call reiterated most of the ideas originally expressed by the Union of Concerned Scientists in 19...
Axel Hochkirch, Michael J. Samways, Justin Gerlach, Monika Böhm et al.
Measuring progress toward international biodiversity targets requires robust information on the conservation status of species, which the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species provides. However, data and capacity are lacking for most hyperdiverse groups...
Paulo A. V. Borges, François Rigal, Alejandra Ros‐Prieto, Pedro Cardoso
Abstract A dramatic insect decline has been documented on the grasslands and forests of European or North American mainland. Yet, other parts of the world and other ecosystems remain much less studied with unknown patterns. Using a unique time‐series dataset, we investigate recent trends on abundanc...
Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Enrico Bernard, Francisco William da Cruz Júnior, Luís B. Piló et al.
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Caroline Sayuri Fukushima, Jorge Ivan Mendoza, Rick C. West, Stuart J. Longhorn et al.
CITES is an international agreement between governments to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. Regarding spiders, all species listed in CITES are tarantulas. They are included in Appendix II, meaning that they are species that are...
António O. Soares, Danny Haelewaters, Olga M. C. C. Ameixa, Isabel Borges et al.
Ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) provide services that are critical to food production, and they fulfill an ecological role as a food source for predators. The richness, abundance, and distribution of ladybirds, however, are compromised by many anthropogenic threats. Meanwhile, a lack of knowle...
Paulo A. V. Borges, Lucas Lamelas-López, Isabel R. Amorim, Anja Danielczak et al.
Azorean volcanic cave biodiversity is under considerable pressure due to ongoing threats of pollution, land use change, touristic activities or climate change. In this contribution, we present the IUCN Red List profiles of 15 cave-adapted arthropod species, endemic to the Azorean archipelago, includ...
Jagoba Malumbres‐Olarte, Pedro Cardoso, Luís C Crespo, Rosalina Gabriel et al.
The data presented here come from samples collected as part of two recent research projects (NETBIOME - ISLANDBIODIV and FCT - MACDIV) which aimed at understanding the drivers of community assembly in Macaronesian islands. We applied the sampling protocol COBRA (Conservation Oriented Biodiversity Ra...
Jagoba Malumbres‐Olarte, Mário Boieiro, Pedro Cardoso, Rui Carvalho et al.
BACKGROUND: Here we present the data obtained from the samples collected as part of a large research project (MACDIV) which aims at understanding the drivers of spider (Araneae) community assembly in Macaronesian islands. To obtain the data, we applied the sampling protocol COBRA (Conservation Orien...
Sini Seppälä, Sérgio Henriques, Michael L. Draney, Stefan H. Foord et al.
BACKGROUND: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is the most widely used information source on the extinction risk of species. One of the uses of the Red List is to evaluate and monitor the state of biodiversity and a possible approach for this purpose is the Red List Index (RLI). For many taxa, ...
Stefano Mammola, Nicoletta Riccardi, Vincent Prié, Ricardo Correia et al.
Abstract Through the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and the LIFE projects financial investments, Europe has been the world’s experimental arena for biological conservation. With an estimated budget of €20 billion/year, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 has set an ambitious goal of reaching 30% P...
Stefano Mammola, Filippo Milano, Pedro Cardoso, Marco Isaia
Vesubia jugorum (Simon, 1881) (Araneae: Lycosidae) is a large-sized wolf spider that occurs in alpine rocky areas above 2,000 m altitude. The species is stenoendemic, with a limited number of populations documented in the literature from the Maritime Alps (Italy, France). Due to the climate change, ...
Patrícia Ângelo de Barros, Elvira M. R. Pedrosa, Mércia Soares de Oliveira Cardoso, Mário M. Rolim
Sugarcane plays an important socio-economic role in northeastern Brazil. However, the low yield in this region is associated with several factors (e.g. frequent occurrence of plant-parasitic nematodes). In order to observe the influence of soil organic matter on the nematodes, this study aimed to ch...
Paulo A. V. Borges, Luís C Crespo, Pedro Cardoso
Turinyphia cavernicola Wunderlich, 2008 is one of the two endemic cavernicolous spiders known from the Azorean archipelago (Portugal). In spite of relatively intensive searches, this species is known from only three caves, but with a single sustainable subpopulation restricted to the Algar do Carvão...