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2. The distribution of different intensity demanding scenarios in elite rink hockey players using an electronic performance tracking system
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Daniel Fernández, Joan A. Cadefau, Noemí Serra, and Gerard Carmona
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
Despite the traditional use of average values for determining physical demands, the intermittent and fluctuating nature of team sports may lead to underestimation of the most demanding scenarios. All the most demanding scenario-related investigations to date only report one maximal scenario per game, the greatest. However, the latest research on this subject has shown additional scenarios of equal or similar magnitude that most researchers have not considered. This repetition concept started a new way of describing competition and training loads; then the study aims were: first, to quantify and assess differences between playing positions in terms of the most demanding scenarios in official matches; and second, to quantify and assess the differences between playing positions in the repetition of different intensity scenarios relative to the most demanding individual scenario. We monitored nine professional rink hockey players (7 exterior and 2 interior players) in 18 competitive matches using an electronic performance tracking system. The interior players are closest to the opponent’s goal, while the exterior players are farthest from it. Peak physical demands variables included total distance (m), distance covered at >18 km·h-1 (m), the number of accelerations (≥2 m∙s-2, count) and decelerations (≤-2 m∙s-2, count) in 30 s. An average from the top three individual most demanding scenarios was used to define a reference value to quantify the distribution scenario repetition during matches. The results showed that peak demands in rink hockey are position-dependent, with more distance covered by exterior players and more accelerations performed by interior players. In addition, rink hockey matches include multiple scenario exposures that are close to the peak physical demands of a match. Using the results of this study, coaches can prepare tailored training plans for each position, focusing on distances covered or accelerations for exterior players.
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- 2023
3. Characteristics and clinical outcome in 312 patients with moderate to severe pneumonia due to SARS-COV-2 and hyperinflammation treated with anakinra and corticosteroids: A retrospective cohort study.
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Ismael Francisco Aomar-Millán, Javier Martínez de Victoria-Carazo, Daniel Fernández Reyes, Úrsula Torres-Parejo, Laura Pérez Fernández, Silvia Martínez-Diz, Angel Ceballos Torres, Jairo López Gómez, Francesco Bizzarri, Enrique Raya Álvarez, and Juan Salvatierra
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
ObjectiveTo assess the clinical outcome (death and/or Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission) based on the time from hospital admission to the administration of anakinra and the possible usefulness of a "simplified" SCOPE score to stratify the risk of worse prognosis in our cohort of patients with moderate/severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, both vaccinated and unvaccinated, that received anakinra and corticosteroids. In addition, the clinical, analytical, and imaging characteristics of patients at admission are described.MethodsRetrospective cohort study of 312 patients admitted to Hospital Clínico San Cecilio in Granada for moderate/severe pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 that received anakinra and corticosteroids between March 2020 and January 2022. Clinical and analytical data were collected as well as the patient outcome at 30 and 60 days after admission. Three treatment groups were established according to the time from hospital admission to administration of anakinra: early (1st-2nd day), intermediate (3rd-5th day), and late (after the 5th day).ResultsThe median age was 67.4 years (IQR 22-97 years) and 204 (65.4%) were male. The most common comorbidity was hypertension (58%). The median time from the start of symptoms to anakinra administration was 6 days (IQR 5-10) and the SaFi (SaO2/FiO2) was 228 (IQR 71-471). The cure rate was higher in the early-onset anakinra group versus the late-onset group (73% vs 56.6%). The latter had a higher percentage of deaths (27.4%) and a greater number of patients remained hospitalized for a month (16%). On admission, the patients had elevated C-reactive protein (CRP), ferritin, and D-dimer values and decreased total lymphocytes. Analytical improvement was observed at both 72 hours and one month after treatment. 42 (13.5%) required ICU admission, and 23 (7.3%) orotracheal intubation. At 60 days, 221 (70.8%) were discharged, 87 (27.8%) had died and 4 (1.4%) remained hospitalized. The mean dose of anakinra was 1000 mg (100-2600 mg) with differences found between the dose administered and the clinical outcome. There were no differences in the primary outcome based on vaccination. A simplified SCOPE score at the start of anakinra administration was lower in patients with better clinical evolution.ConclusionsEarly treatment with anakinra and corticosteroids was associated with a better outcome regardless of vaccination status. A simplified SCOPE was found to be a good prognostic tool.
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- 2023
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4. Approaches to measure class importance in Knowledge Graphs
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Daniel Fernández-Álvarez, Johannes Frey, Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Daniel Gayo-Avello, and Sebastian Hellmann
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
The amount, size, complexity, and importance of Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have increased during the last decade. Many different communities have chosen to publish their datasets using Linked Data principles, which favors the integration of this information with many other sources published using the same principles and technologies. Such a scenario requires to develop techniques of Linked Data Summarization. The concept of a class is one of the core elements used to define the ontologies which sustain most of the existing KGs. Moreover, classes are an excellent tool to refer to an abstract idea which groups many individuals (or instances) in the context of a given KG, which is handy to use when producing summaries of its content. Rankings of class importance are a powerful summarization tool that can be used both to obtain a superficial view of the content of a given KG and to prioritize many different actions over the data (data quality checking, visualization, relevance for search engines…). In this paper, we analyze existing techniques to measure class importance and propose a novel approach called ClassRank. We compare the class usage in SPARQL logs of different KGs with the importance ranking produced by the approaches evaluated. Then, we discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the evaluated techniques. Our experimentation suggests that ClassRank outperforms state-of-the-art approaches measuring class importance.
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- 2021
5. An integrative assessment of the diversity, phylogeny, distribution, and conservation of the terrestrial reptiles (Sauropsida, Squamata) of the United Arab Emirates.
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Bernat Burriel-Carranza, Pedro Tarroso, Johannes Els, Andrew Gardner, Pritpal Soorae, Ahmed Ali Mohammed, Sai Ravi Krishna Tubati, Mohamed Mustafa Eltayeb, Junid Nazeer Shah, Héctor Tejero-Cicuéndez, Marc Simó-Riudalbas, Juan Manuel Pleguezuelos, Daniel Fernández-Guiberteau, Jiří Šmíd, and Salvador Carranza
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
In the present study we use an unprecedented database of 5,535 distributional records to infer the diversity, ecological preferences and spatial distribution of the 60 species of terrestrial reptiles of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and use the 57 native species to test the effectiveness of the protected areas' network in conserving this unique vertebrate fauna. We infer a time-calibrated phylogeny with 146 species of squamates and 15 genes including all UAE terrestrial reptile species to determine the phylogenetic diversity (PD) and evolutionary distinctiveness (ED) of the native species and to compare it with the distribution of the hotspots of native species richness. The results of this study indicate that the sampling effort is remarkable, covering 75% of the country's territory representing nearly the entire climatic space of the UAE defined by the mean annual temperature and the total annual precipitation, as well as the multivariate climatic space defined by a principal component analysis (PCA). Species richness is highest in the northeast of the country, in a transitional area from sandy desert to the mountainous terrain of the Hajar Mountains. The highest PD of a single square cell of 10 arc-minutes grid is of 2,430 million years (my) of accumulated evolutionary history and the strong correlation between PD and species richness suggests that the raw number of species is a good surrogate to quantify the evolutionary history (i.e., PD). The species with the highest values of ED are those in families represented by only one species in the UAE. Finally, the assessment of the UAE protected areas shows that, despite their relevance in protecting the terrestrial reptiles, they do not offer adequate protection for some threatened species. Therefore, a reassessment of some of the protected areas or the creation of species specific conservation action plans are recommended in order to ensure the preservation of the unique diversity of UAE terrestrial reptiles.
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- 2019
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6. Diversity, distribution and conservation of the terrestrial reptiles of Oman (Sauropsida, Squamata).
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Salvador Carranza, Meritxell Xipell, Pedro Tarroso, Andrew Gardner, Edwin Nicholas Arnold, Michael D Robinson, Marc Simó-Riudalbas, Raquel Vasconcelos, Philip de Pous, Fèlix Amat, Jiří Šmíd, Roberto Sindaco, Margarita Metallinou, Johannes Els, Juan Manuel Pleguezuelos, Luis Machado, David Donaire, Gabriel Martínez, Joan Garcia-Porta, Tomáš Mazuch, Thomas Wilms, Jürgen Gebhart, Javier Aznar, Javier Gallego, Bernd-Michael Zwanzig, Daniel Fernández-Guiberteau, Theodore Papenfuss, Saleh Al Saadi, Ali Alghafri, Sultan Khalifa, Hamed Al Farqani, Salim Bait Bilal, Iman Sulaiman Alazri, Aziza Saud Al Adhoobi, Zeyana Salim Al Omairi, Mohammed Al Shariani, Ali Al Kiyumi, Thuraya Al Sariri, Ahmed Said Al Shukaili, and Suleiman Nasser Al Akhzami
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
In the present work, we use an exceptional database including 5,359 records of 101 species of Oman's terrestrial reptiles together with spatial tools to infer the spatial patterns of species richness and endemicity, to infer the habitat preference of each species and to better define conservation priorities, with especial focus on the effectiveness of the protected areas in preserving this unique arid fauna. Our results indicate that the sampling effort is not only remarkable from a taxonomic point of view, with multiple observations for most species, but also for the spatial coverage achieved. The observations are distributed almost continuously across the two-dimensional climatic space of Oman defined by the mean annual temperature and the total annual precipitation and across the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of the multivariate climatic space and are well represented within 17 out of the 20 climatic clusters grouping 10% of the explained climatic variance defined by PC1 and PC2. Species richness is highest in the Hajar and Dhofar Mountains, two of the most biodiverse areas of the Arabian Peninsula, and endemic species richness is greatest in the Jebel Akhdar, the highest part of the Hajar Mountains. Oman's 22 protected areas cover only 3.91% of the country, including within their limits 63.37% of terrestrial reptiles and 50% of all endemics. Our analyses show that large areas of the climatic space of Oman lie outside protected areas and that seven of the 20 climatic clusters are not protected at all. The results of the gap analysis indicate that most of the species are below the conservation target of 17% or even the less restrictive 12% of their total area within a protected area in order to be considered adequately protected. Therefore, an evaluation of the coverage of the current network of protected areas and the identification of priority protected areas for reptiles using reserve design algorithms are urgently needed. Our study also shows that more than half of the species are still pending of a definitive evaluation by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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7. Dynamics of an infectious keratoconjunctivitis outbreak by Mycoplasma conjunctivae on Pyrenean Chamois Rupicapra p. pyrenaica.
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Maríacruz Arnal, Juan Herrero, Christian de la Fe, Miguel Revilla, Carlos Prada, David Martínez-Durán, Angel Gómez-Martín, Olatz Fernández-Arberas, Joaquín Amores, Antonio Contreras, Alicia García-Serrano, and Daniel Fernández de Luco
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Between 2006 and 2008, an outbreak of Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis (IKC) affected Pyrenean chamois Rupicapra p. pyrenaica, an endemic subspecies of mountain ungulate that lives in the Pyrenees. The study focused on 14 mountain massifs (180,000 ha) where the species' population is stable. Cases of IKC were detected in ten of the massifs and, in five of them, mortality was substantial. The outbreak spread quickly from the first location detected, with two peaks in mortality that affected one (2007) and three (2008) massifs. In the latter, the peak was seasonal (spring to autumn) and, in the former, the outbreak persisted through winter. To identify the outbreak's aetiology, we examined 105 Pyrenean chamois clinically affected with IKC. TaqMan rt-PCR identified Mycoplasma conjunctivae in 93 (88.5%) of the chamois. Another rt-PCR detected Chlamydophila spp. in 14 of chamois, and 12 of those had mixed infections with mycoplasmas. In the period 2000-2007, the chamois population increased slightly (λ 1.026) but decreased significantly during the IKC outbreak (λ 0.8, 2007-2008; λ 0.85, 2008-2009) before increasing significantly after the outbreak (λ 1.1, 2009-2010). Sex-biased mortality shifted the adult sex ratio toward males (from 0.6 to 0.7 males per female) and reduced productivity slightly. Hunting was practically banned in the massifs where chamois experienced significant mortality and allowed again after the outbreak ended. Long-term monitoring of wild populations provides a basis for understanding the impacts of disease outbreaks and improves management decisions, particularly when species are subject to extractive exploitation.
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- 2013
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8. Approaches to measure class importance in Knowledge Graphs
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Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Daniel Gayo-Avello, Sebastian Hellmann, Daniel Fernández-Álvarez, and Johannes Frey
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Databases, Factual ,Computer science ,Social Sciences ,02 engineering and technology ,Infographics ,Pattern Recognition, Automated ,Database and Informatics Methods ,Sociology ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,SPARQL ,Centrality ,Data Management ,Class (computer programming) ,Multidisciplinary ,Applied Mathematics ,Simulation and Modeling ,Online Encyclopedias ,computer.file_format ,Linked data ,Robotics ,Semantics ,Professions ,Physical Sciences ,Information Retrieval ,Engineering and Technology ,Medicine ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,Graphs ,Algorithms ,Network Analysis ,Research Article ,Computer and Information Sciences ,Science ,Context (language use) ,Research and Analysis Methods ,Ranking (information retrieval) ,020204 information systems ,Ontologies ,Humans ,Relevance (information retrieval) ,Mass Media ,Information retrieval ,Data Visualization ,Mechanical Engineering ,Computational Biology ,Automatic summarization ,Communications ,Data quality ,People and Places ,Encyclopedias ,Population Groupings ,computer ,Mathematics - Abstract
The amount, size, complexity, and importance of Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have increased during the last decade. Many different communities have chosen to publish their datasets using Linked Data principles, which favors the integration of this information with many other sources published using the same principles and technologies. Such a scenario requires to develop techniques of Linked Data Summarization. The concept of a class is one of the core elements used to define the ontologies which sustain most of the existing KGs. Moreover, classes are an excellent tool to refer to an abstract idea which groups many individuals (or instances) in the context of a given KG, which is handy to use when producing summaries of its content. Rankings of class importance are a powerful summarization tool that can be used both to obtain a superficial view of the content of a given KG and to prioritize many different actions over the data (data quality checking, visualization, relevance for search engines…). In this paper, we analyze existing techniques to measure class importance and propose a novel approach called ClassRank. We compare the class usage in SPARQL logs of different KGs with the importance ranking produced by the approaches evaluated. Then, we discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the evaluated techniques. Our experimentation suggests that ClassRank outperforms state-of-the-art approaches measuring class importance.
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- 2021
9. Factors associated with prevention practices against COVID-19 in the Peruvian population: Disparities between rural and urban areas
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Daniel Fernandez-Guzman, David R. Soriano-Moreno, Fabricio Ccami-Bernal, Randy Velasquez-Fernandez, Noelia Morocho-Alburqueque, Abraham De-Los-Rios-Pinto, Naomi Coba-Villan, Angelica Diaz-Corrales, Antony Pinedo-Soria, Pamela Grados-Espinoza, and Wendy Nieto-Gutierrez
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Objective To determine the factors associated with prevention practices against COVID-19 in the Peruvian population according to rural vs. urban locations. Methods Analytical cross-sectional study, secondary analysis based on a previously collected database. A sample of individuals over 18 years of age, residing in Peru and with no history of COVID-19was evaluated. Factors associated with prevention practices were evaluated using Poisson regressions with variance adjustment by region cluster and stratified by rurality. Results Of 3231 participants included, 2741 (84.8%) were from urban areas and 490 (15.2%) from rural areas. The frequency of good prevention practices against COVID-19 was 27.8% in our total sample. In urban areas the frequency of good prevention practices was 28.8% and in rural areas it was 22.5%. Factors associated with prevention practices against COVID-19 in both urban and rural areas were male sex (urban: aPR 0.64, 95%CI 0.55–0.75; rural: aPR 0.66, 95%CI 0.54–0.80) and self-considering adequately carrying out prevention practices (urban: aPR 2.48, 95%CI 2.13–2.89; rural: aPR 2.70, 95%CI 2.27–3.19). Conclusion The frequency of good prevention practices against COVID-19 was less than 30% in both urban and rural areas. There are differences in the factors associated with good preventive practice against COVID-19. Only sex and considering that preventive measures were adequately carried out were associated with good prevention practices in both areas. In view of this, prevention measures should be promoted taking into account cultural principles and considering geographical location in the face of present and future outbreaks or pandemics.
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- 2022
10. Dynamics of an Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis Outbreak by Mycoplasma conjunctivae on Pyrenean Chamois Rupicapra p. pyrenaica
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Arnal, MaríaCruz, primary, Herrero, Juan, additional, de la Fe, Christian, additional, Revilla, Miguel, additional, Prada, Carlos, additional, Martínez-Durán, David, additional, Gómez-Martín, Ángel, additional, Fernández-Arberas, Olatz, additional, Amores, Joaquín, additional, Contreras, Antonio, additional, García-Serrano, Alicia, additional, and de Luco, Daniel Fernández, additional
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11. Dynamics of an Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis Outbreak by Mycoplasma conjunctivae on Pyrenean Chamois Rupicapra p. pyrenaica.
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Arnal, MaríaCruz, Herrero, Juan, de la Fe, Christian, Revilla, Miguel, Prada, Carlos, Martínez-Durán, David, Gómez-Martín, Ángel, Fernández-Arberas, Olatz, Amores, Joaquín, Contreras, Antonio, García-Serrano, Alicia, and de Luco, Daniel Fernández
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KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS ,MYCOPLASMA ,PYRENEAN chamois ,RUPICAPRA pyrenaica ,ETIOLOGY of diseases ,CHAMOIS ,POPULATION biology - Abstract
Between 2006 and 2008, an outbreak of Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis (IKC) affected Pyrenean chamois Rupicapra p. pyrenaica, an endemic subspecies of mountain ungulate that lives in the Pyrenees. The study focused on 14 mountain massifs (180,000 ha) where the species’ population is stable. Cases of IKC were detected in ten of the massifs and, in five of them, mortality was substantial. The outbreak spread quickly from the first location detected, with two peaks in mortality that affected one (2007) and three (2008) massifs. In the latter, the peak was seasonal (spring to autumn) and, in the former, the outbreak persisted through winter. To identify the outbreak’s aetiology, we examined 105 Pyrenean chamois clinically affected with IKC. TaqMan rt-PCR identified Mycoplasma conjunctivae in 93 (88.5%) of the chamois. Another rt-PCR detected Chlamydophila spp. in 14 of chamois, and 12 of those had mixed infections with mycoplasmas. In the period 2000–2007, the chamois population increased slightly (λ 1.026) but decreased significantly during the IKC outbreak (λ 0.8, 2007–2008; λ 0.85, 2008–2009) before increasing significantly after the outbreak (λ 1.1, 2009–2010). Sex-biased mortality shifted the adult sex ratio toward males (from 0.6 to 0.7 males per female) and reduced productivity slightly. Hunting was practically banned in the massifs where chamois experienced significant mortality and allowed again after the outbreak ended. Long-term monitoring of wild populations provides a basis for understanding the impacts of disease outbreaks and improves management decisions, particularly when species are subject to extractive exploitation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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12. Diversity, distribution and conservation of the terrestrial reptiles of Oman (Sauropsida, Squamata)
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Javier Gallego, Aziza Saud Al Adhoobi, Theodore J. Papenfuss, Meritxell Xipell, Michael D. Robinson, Andrew Gardner, Luis Machado, Ali Alghafri, David Donaire, Fèlix Amat, Johannes Els, Philip de Pous, Jurgen Gebhart, Saleh Al Saadi, Joan Garcia-Porta, Ali Al Kiyumi, Sultan Khalifa, Daniel Fernández-Guiberteau, Zeyana Salim Al Omairi, Juan M. Pleguezuelos, Thomas Wilms, Salvador Carranza, Mohammed Al Shariani, Iman Sulaiman Alazri, Javier Aznar, Raquel Vasconcelos, Jiří Šmíd, Salim Bait Bilal, Ahmed Said Al Shukaili, Bernd Michael Zwanzig, Thuraya Al Sariri, E. N. Arnold, Suleiman Nasser Al Akhzami, Tomáš Mazuch, Margarita Metallinou, German Martinez, Pedro Tarroso, Hamed Al Farqani, Marc Simó-Riudalbas, and Roberto Sindaco
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0106 biological sciences ,Topography ,Oman ,Species Delimitation ,Climate ,Speciation ,Biodiversity ,lcsh:Medicine ,01 natural sciences ,Geographical Locations ,Mathematical and Statistical Techniques ,IUCN Red List ,lcsh:Science ,Species diversity ,Conservation Science ,Data Management ,Islands ,Principal Component Analysis ,Multidisciplinary ,Ecology ,Eukaryota ,Geography ,Reserve design ,Habitat ,Vertebrates ,Physical Sciences ,Statistics (Mathematics) ,Research Article ,Conservation of Natural Resources ,Computer and Information Sciences ,Asia ,Evolutionary Processes ,Ecological Metrics ,010607 zoology ,Principal component analysis ,Research and Analysis Methods ,010603 evolutionary biology ,Species delimitation ,Animals ,14. Life underwater ,Statistical Methods ,Endemism ,Ecosystem ,Taxonomy ,Landforms ,Evolutionary Biology ,lcsh:R ,Ecology and Environmental Sciences ,Organisms ,Reptiles ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Species Diversity ,Geomorphology ,15. Life on land ,Conservation science ,People and Places ,Amniotes ,Multivariate Analysis ,Earth Sciences ,lcsh:Q ,Species richness ,Protected area ,Mathematics - Abstract
All authors: Salvador Carranza , Meritxell Xipell, Pedro Tarroso, Andrew Gardner, Edwin Nicholas Arnold, Michael D. Robinson, Marc Simó-Riudalbas, Raquel Vasconcelos, Philip de Pous, Fèlix Amat, Jiří Šmíd, Roberto Sindaco, Margarita Metallinou †, Johannes Els, Juan Manuel Pleguezuelos, Luis Machado, David Donaire, Gabriel Martínez, Joan Garcia-Porta, Tomáš Mazuch, Thomas Wilms, Jürgen Gebhart, Javier Aznar, Javier Gallego, Bernd-Michael Zwanzig, Daniel Fernández-Guiberteau, Theodore Papenfuss, Saleh Al Saadi, Ali Alghafri, Sultan Khalifa, Hamed Al Farqani, Salim Bait Bilal, Iman Sulaiman Alazri, Aziza Saud Al Adhoobi, Zeyana Salim Al Omairi, Mohammed Al Shariani, Ali Al Kiyumi, Thuraya Al Sariri, Ahmed Said Al Shukaili, Suleiman Nasser Al Akhzami., In the present work, we use an exceptional database including 5,359 records of 101 species of Oman’s terrestrial reptiles together with spatial tools to infer the spatial patterns of species richness and endemicity, to infer the habitat preference of each species and to better define conservation priorities, with especial focus on the effectiveness of the protected areas in preserving this unique arid fauna. Our results indicate that the sampling effort is not only remarkable from a taxonomic point of view, with multiple observations for most species, but also for the spatial coverage achieved. The observations are distributed almost continuously across the two-dimensional climatic space of Oman defined by the mean annual temperature and the total annual precipitation and across the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of the multivariate climatic space and are well represented within 17 out of the 20 climatic clusters grouping 10% of the explained climatic variance defined by PC1 and PC2. Species richness is highest in the Hajar and Dhofar Mountains, two of the most biodiverse areas of the Arabian Peninsula, and endemic species richness is greatest in the Jebel Akhdar, the highest part of the Hajar Mountains. Oman’s 22 protected areas cover only 3.91% of the country, including within their limits 63.37% of terrestrial reptiles and 50% of all endemics. Our analyses show that large areas of the climatic space of Oman lie outside protected areas and that seven of the 20 climatic clusters are not protected at all. The results of the gap analysis indicate that most of the species are below the conservation target of 17% or even the less restrictive 12% of their total area within a protected area in order to be considered adequately protected. Therefore, an evaluation of the coverage of the current network of protected areas and the identification of priority protected areas for reptiles using reserve design algorithms are urgently needed. Our study also shows that more than half of the species are still pending of a definitive evaluation by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)., This work was funded by grants CGL2012-36970, CGL2015-70390-P from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain (cofunded by FEDER) to SC, the project Field study for the conservation of reptiles in Oman, Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, Oman (Ref: 22412027) to SC and grant 2014-SGR-1532 from the Secretaria d'Universitats i Recerca del Departament d'Economia i Coneixement de la Generalitat de Catalunya to SC. MSR is funded by a FPI grant from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain (BES-2013-064248); RV, PT and LM were funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) through post-doc grants (SFRH/BPD/79913/2011) to RV, (SFRH/BPD/93473/2013) to PT and PhD grant (SFRH/BD/89820/2012) to LM, financed by Programa Operacional Potencial Humano (POPH) – Quadro de Referência Estrategico Nacional (QREN) from the European Social Fund and Portuguese Ministerio da Educação e Ciência.
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13. Dynamics of an Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis Outbreak by Mycoplasma conjunctivae on Pyrenean Chamois Rupicapra p. pyrenaica.
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Arnal, MaríaCruz, Herrero, Juan, de la Fe, Christian, Revilla, Miguel, Prada, Carlos, Martínez-Durán, David, Gómez-Martín, Ángel, Fernández-Arberas, Olatz, Amores, Joaquín, Contreras, Antonio, García-Serrano, Alicia, and de Luco, Daniel Fernández
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KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS , *MYCOPLASMA , *PYRENEAN chamois , *RUPICAPRA pyrenaica , *ETIOLOGY of diseases , *CHAMOIS , *POPULATION biology - Abstract
Between 2006 and 2008, an outbreak of Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis (IKC) affected Pyrenean chamois Rupicapra p. pyrenaica, an endemic subspecies of mountain ungulate that lives in the Pyrenees. The study focused on 14 mountain massifs (180,000 ha) where the species’ population is stable. Cases of IKC were detected in ten of the massifs and, in five of them, mortality was substantial. The outbreak spread quickly from the first location detected, with two peaks in mortality that affected one (2007) and three (2008) massifs. In the latter, the peak was seasonal (spring to autumn) and, in the former, the outbreak persisted through winter. To identify the outbreak’s aetiology, we examined 105 Pyrenean chamois clinically affected with IKC. TaqMan rt-PCR identified Mycoplasma conjunctivae in 93 (88.5%) of the chamois. Another rt-PCR detected Chlamydophila spp. in 14 of chamois, and 12 of those had mixed infections with mycoplasmas. In the period 2000–2007, the chamois population increased slightly (λ 1.026) but decreased significantly during the IKC outbreak (λ 0.8, 2007–2008; λ 0.85, 2008–2009) before increasing significantly after the outbreak (λ 1.1, 2009–2010). Sex-biased mortality shifted the adult sex ratio toward males (from 0.6 to 0.7 males per female) and reduced productivity slightly. Hunting was practically banned in the massifs where chamois experienced significant mortality and allowed again after the outbreak ended. Long-term monitoring of wild populations provides a basis for understanding the impacts of disease outbreaks and improves management decisions, particularly when species are subject to extractive exploitation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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