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2. Welsh Folk Museum
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St. Fragan's Folk Museum, The National Museum of Wales, The National Museum of Wales, St. Fragan's Folk Museum, The National Museum of Wales, and The National Museum of Wales
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A leaflet guide for the folk museum with a detail of the different galleries and buildings that are on site. Contains a short history of the museum and a map of the grounds. In the introduction, it talks about the purpose of a folk museum and about the influence of Scandinavian countries on the museum. Drawings and sketches in black and white.
3. A Matter of Great Interest to Welsh-Americans
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The National Museum of Wales, The American Committee for the National Museum of Wales Fund, The National Museum of Wales, and The American Committee for the National Museum of Wales Fund
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This booklet is asking for funding to create a Welsh-American Gallery. They want to create the exhibit because the Welsh people in America are proud of their heritage. Talks about collecting and how ‘The Museum’s duty is to “teach the world about Wales and the Welsh people about their own fatherland’. Talks about USA leading museum techniques and about the proposed new galleries and how people can contribute. Images in black and white.
4. Schools Service: Children in Museums
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The National Museum of Wales, Donald Moore, The National Museum of Wales, and Donald Moore
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A booklet detailing about children within museum. It aims to answer questions like ‘What does a museum mean to children?’, how do children participate in a museum and how do museums impact upon children?
5. Welsh Folk Museum and its Development
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St. Fragan's Folk Museum, The National Museum of Wales, Iorweth C. Peate, St. Fragan's Museum, St. Fragan's Folk Museum, The National Museum of Wales, and Iorweth C. Peate, St. Fragan's Museum
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A booklet detailing the development of the museum. Says that ’Wales can claim to have been for many years a pioneer British country in fostering the collection of folk material and in folk life research’ and how they have understood the importance of collecting. Images in black and white. Talks about the development of the collection and how the department for Folk Life in the national museum was set up in 1936 and how the creation of a folk museum was vital for post-war needs. It has a bit of history about the house and how it developed. ‘St. Fragans will become, I trust, a concentration of all which characterizes Wales’.
6. Local Art Treasures Catalogue
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The National Museum of Wales and The National Museum of Wales
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A catalogue to accompany the exhibition of Local art treasures. The preface at the beginning talks about this exhibition being a contribution to the Festival of Britain. The collection is from Penarth and the neighbouring districts.
7. Museum School Service
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The National Museum of Wales and The National Museum of Wales
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A small booklet with some information on the history of the schools service and its aims and also the history of the National Museum of Wales. Talks about various publications and the help that it gives to schools. Service confined to secondary schools because of the number of schools in Wales. Talks about the staff and set up of the service but also talks about the aims being ‘to interest, to inspire, and to teach through things’. Talks about things that are inappropriate for the service to do e.g. broadcast on air and they actually say that they do not want to be ‘complementary to the curriculum’ but to offer something different to what schools are doing. Talks about intra-mural and extra-mural services and practical considerations and some publications on sale.
8. Jubilee 1907 - 1957
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The National Museum of Wales and The National Museum of Wales
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A commemorative booklet on the Jubilee of the National Museum of Wales. Talks about the development of the museum, how it grew its collections, school service and the folk museum.
9. Spiders in caves: the CAWEB project
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Mammola , Stefano, Gasparo , Fulvio, Komenov , Marjan, Růžička , Vlastimil, Déjean, Sylvain, Danflous , Samuel, Brustel, Hervé, Vargovitsh , Robert S., Rozwałka , Robert, Moldovan , Oana, Pavlek, Martina, Deltshev, Christo, Petrov , Boyan, Naumova , Maria, Ćurčić , Srećko, Mock , Andrej, Kovac , Lubomir, Cardoso, Pedro, Dányi , László, Angyal , Dorottya, Balázs , Gergely, Ribera , Carles, Prieto , Carlos E., Fernández , Jon, Komposch , Christian, Carter , Julian, Isaia, Marco, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BULGARIA), Conservatoire Régional des Espaces Naturels Midi-Pyrénées - CREN (FRANCE), University of Helsinki (FINLAND), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - INPT (FRANCE), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - INRA (FRANCE), Università degli studi di Torino - UNITO (ITALY), Universitat de Barcelona - UB (SPAIN), Croatian Biospeleological Society (CROATIA), Eotvos Lorand University (HUNGARY), Hungarian Natural History Museum (HUNGARY), Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia - IBEC (SPAIN), Institute of Speleology (ROMANIA), Institut für Tierökologie und Naturbildung (GERMANY), National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (UKRAINE), National Museum of Natural History (BULGARIA), National Museum of Wales (UNITED KINGDOM), Pavol Jozef Šafárik University (SLOVAKIA), Società Alpina delle Giulie (ITALY), Maria Curie-Skłodowska University – UMCS (POLAND), University of Belgrade (SERBIA), University of the Basque Country - UPV/EHU (SPAIN), Chercheur indépendant, Dynamiques et Ecologie des Paysages Agriforestiers - DYNAFOR (Castanet-Tolosan, France), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP (FRANCE), Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Società Alpina delle Giulie, Blwd Kuzman Josifovski Pitu, Independent, Institute of Entomology, Conservatoire Régional des Espaces Naturels Midi-Pyrénées (CREN Midi-Pyrénées), Dynamiques Forestières dans l'Espace Rural (DYNAFOR), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, UMR 1201 Dynamiques et écologie des paysages agriforestiers, Ecole d'Ingénieurs de Purpan (INPT - EI Purpan), Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave. NW, Zakład Zoologii (UMCS), Institute of Speleology, Croatian Biospelological Society, Ruder Boskovic Institute, National Museum of Natural History, Institut Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (UAM), Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, University of Helsinki, Hungarian Natural History Museum (Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum), Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Institute of Biology [Budapest], Faculty of Sciences [Budapest], Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)-Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)-Faculty of Sciences [Budapest], Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)-Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Animal Cell Biology, University of the Basque Country, University of Barcelona, Institut für Tierökologie und Naturbildung, and National Museum of Wales
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Model organisms ,araignée ,araneae ,Ecology ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Biodiversité et Ecologie ,biogeography ,ecology ,model organisms ,subterranean taxa ,Biogeography ,Subterranean taxa ,Araneae ,Spider ,spider - Abstract
session 01 - Diversity and faunistics; World experts of different disciplines, from molecular biology to macroecology, recognize the value of cave ecosystems as ideal ecological and evolutionary laboratories. Among other subterranean taxa, spiders stand out as intriguing model organisms for their ecological role of top-predators, their unique adaptations to the hypogean medium and their sensitivity to anthropogenic disturbance. Here, we provide a general overview of the spider families recorded in hypogean habitats in Europe–20 families including nearly 500 species, most of them with restricted distributions. We also review the different adaptations of hypogean spiders to subterranean life and summarize the information gathered so far about their origin, population structure, ecology and conservation status. Taxonomic knowledge on subterranean spiders in Europe appears to be well, but not exhaustively documented. The origin of the European assemblages is mostly explained by past climate dynamics, although other factors are likely to be involved. Most of the macroecological issues related to spiders in European caves are based on qualitative assessments or have been quantified only at a sub-regional scale. In order to shed light on cave spiders’ biogeography and the macroecological patterns driving the diversity of European subterranean spiders we created the CAWEB network, a spontaneous collaboration between subterranean arachnologists from 30 different European countries. We here present the team and provide some preliminary results, which highlight Southern Europe as an important hot-spot for the European subterranean spider diversity.
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10. Palaeobotanical experiences of plant diversity in deep time. II: How to measure and analyse past plant biodiversity
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Pardoe, Heather, Cleal, Christopher, Berry, Christopher, Cascales-Miñana, Borja, Davis, Basil, Diez, Jose, Filipova-Marinova, Mariana, Giesecke, Thomas, Hilton, Jason, Ivanov, Dimiter, Kustatscher, Evelyn, Leroy, Suzanne, Mcelwain, Jennifer, Opluštil, Stanislav, Popa, Mihai, Seyfullah, Leyla, Stolle, Ellen, Thomas, Barry, Uhl, Dieter, National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 (Evo-Eco-Paléo (EEP)), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire méditerranéen de préhistoire Europe-Afrique (LAMPEA), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC), and Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 (Evo-Eco-Paléo)
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[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
International audience
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- 2021
11. The floristic relationship between the upland and lowland Carboniferous wetlands of Variscan Euramerica — Evidence from some medullosalean pteridosperm fronds
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Christopher J. Cleal, Borja Cascales-Miñana, National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 (Evo-Eco-Paléo), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 (Evo-Eco-Paléo (EEP))
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010506 paleontology ,Frond ,Wetland ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Swamp ,Carboniferous ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Migration ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,biology ,Ecology ,Coal swamps ,Paleontology ,15. Life on land ,Medullosales ,biology.organism_classification ,QE701-760 ,Upland ,Habitat ,Upland and lowland ,Alethopteris ,[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology ,Geology - Abstract
International audience; Alethopteris grandinii represents remains of fronds of a medullosalean pteridosperm (probably a small tree) that rapidly migrated across the lowland wetland habitats of Variscan Euramerica in middle Asturian (late Moscovian) times. This was probably caused by changing drainage patterns within the lowland coal swamps, in response to climate and landscape changes. However, these medullosaleans had first appeared rather earlier, in early Bolsovian (early Moscovian) times, in upland wetland habitats. These upland habitats may have pre-adapted these plants to the changed condition in the lowland coal swamps.
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- 2019
12. A factor analysis approach to modelling the early diversification of terrestrial vegetation
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Philippe Gerrienne, Christopher J. Cleal, Borja Cascales-Miñana, E. Capel, Thomas Servais, Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 (Evo-Eco-Paléo (EEP)), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, Université de Liège, and Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 (Evo-Eco-Paléo)
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010506 paleontology ,Flora ,[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes ,Devonian ,Diversification (marketing strategy) ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,Oceanography ,01 natural sciences ,Plant radiation ,Carboniferous ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Earth-Surface Processes ,Plant evolution ,Ecology ,Terrestrialization ,Paleontology ,Macrofossil ,Vegetation ,15. Life on land ,Plant macrofossil ,Early land plants ,Terrestrial ecosystem ,Factor analysis ,[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology ,Geology - Abstract
International audience; Data from a new comprehensive macrofossil-based compilation of early plant genera are analyzed via a Q-mode factor analysis. This compilation ranges from the Silurian to the earliest Carboniferous and illustrates the key vegetation changes that took place during the configuration of early terrestrial ecosystems. Results reveal that four factors can be used to explain more than 90% of the variance in the data. These factors are interpreted as the major phases of the early land plant evolution: a first Eotracheophytic flora (Silurian-Lochkovian) dominated by basal eutracheophytes and rhyniophytoids, an early Eophytic Flora (Early Devonian) dominated by zosterophylls, a transitional late Eophytic Flora (Middle Devonianearliest Carboniferous) dominated by lycopsids and cladoxylopsids, and finally, the earliest phase of the Palaeophytic Flora (Late Devonian-earliest Carboniferous) dominated by the first seed plants. These floras present different but complementary diversity patterns, which help us to understand the overall trajectory of changes in plant diversity. Results further show how the maximum peaks of diversity appear linked to the rise of each new flora but, interestingly, these diversifications are not associated with any exponential declines of the previously dominant one. This new four-phase diversification model reflects the early steps of Earth's greening.
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- 2021
13. Palaeobotanical experiences of plant diversity in deep time. 1: How well can we identify past plant diversity in the fossil record?
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Ellen Stolle, Jason Hilton, Basil A. S. Davis, Mariana Filipova-Marinova, Barry A. Thomas, Heather S. Pardoe, Mihai Emilian Popa, Suzanne A.G. Leroy, Christopher Mark Berry, Borja Cascales-Miñana, Stanislav Opluštil, Dieter Uhl, Christopher J. Cleal, Dimiter Ivanov, José B. Diez, Leyla J. Seyfullah, Jennifer C. McElwain, Thomas Giesecke, Evelyn Kustatscher, National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 (Evo-Eco-Paléo), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire méditerranéen de préhistoire Europe-Afrique (LAMPEA), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC), and Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 (Evo-Eco-Paléo (EEP))
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010506 paleontology ,Evolution ,Climate change ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,Oceanography ,01 natural sciences ,Behavior and Systematics ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Deep time ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Earth-Surface Processes ,Taxonomy ,Extinction event ,Palynology ,Palaeobotany ,Vegetation ,Ecology ,Palaeontology ,Paleontology ,Macrofossil ,Biodiversity ,15. Life on land ,respiratory system ,[SDV.BV.BOT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Botanics ,13. Climate action ,Taphonomy ,Paleobotany ,[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology ,human activities ,Geology ,Diversity (business) - Abstract
International audience; Palaeobotany and palynology are the main direct sources of evidence for studying vegetation diversity dynamics through geological time. However, plant fossil diversity is affected by various factors other than vegetation diversity, which need to be taken into account in such studies. The use of fossil-taxa will potentially inflate perceived plant diversities, requiring taxonomic lists to be normalised. Autochthonous floras provide the most direct evidence of vegetation diversity but these are rare; most plant beds are allochthonous with plant remains that have been subjected to varying levels of fragmentation, transportation and time averaging. Local-scale vegetation diversity is especially difficult to determine from the fossil record, even with rigorous sampling protocols and detailed sedimentological analysis. Landscape-scale and regional-scale vegetation diversities are more reliably determined but usually at the rank of family. Macrofossil and palynological data tend to reveal evidence of different aspects of plant diversity, and the best results are obtained if the two diversity signals are integrated. Despite the inherent difficulties, the plant fossil record provides clear evidence of the dynamic history of vegetation through geological times, including the effects of major processes such as climate changes and mass extinctions
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14. Geological Excursions in Powys, Central Wales
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Bassett, Michael G., Woodcock, N. H., National Museum of Wales, Geologists' Association, Bassett, Michael G., Woodcock, N. H., National Museum of Wales, and Geologists' Association
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- Geology--Wales--Powys
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Published on behalf of the Geologists'Association, South Wales Group.
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15. Revisiting the Great Ordovician Diversification of land plants: Recent data and perspectives
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Mareike Neumann, Philippe Gerrienne, Thomas Servais, David A. T. Harper, Borja Cascales-Miñana, Christopher J. Cleal, Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 (Evo-Eco-Paléo (EEP)), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 (Evo-Eco-Paléo), National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, Paléobotanique, Paléopalynologie et Micropaléontologie, Université de Liège, and Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 [Evo-Eco-Paléo (EEP)]
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010506 paleontology ,cryptospores ,[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,Oceanography ,early Palaeozoic ,01 natural sciences ,bryophytes ,Organic geochemistry ,Marine ecosystem ,14. Life underwater ,Molecular clock ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Earth-Surface Processes ,terrestrialization 1. Introduction ,Extinction event ,Plant evolution ,[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere ,Ecology ,Paleontology ,Biosphere ,Marine invertebrates ,embryophytes ,15. Life on land ,radiation ,[SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology ,Ordovician ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology ,Geology - Abstract
International audience; Recent molecular clock data suggest with highest probability a Cambrian origin of Embryophyta (also called land plants), indicating that their terrestrialization most probably started about 500 million years ago. The fossil record of the 'Cambrian explosion' was limited to marine organisms and not visible in the plant fossil record. The most significant changes in early land plant evolution occurred during the Ordovician. For instance, the earliest bryophytelike cryptospores and the oldest fragments of the earliest land plants come from the Middle and Late Ordovician, respectively. Organic geochemistry studies on biomarker compositions hint at a transition from green algae to land plants during the 'Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event' (GOBE). The colonization of the terrestrial realms by land plants clearly had an impact on marine ecosystems. Interactions between the terrestrial and marine biospheres have been proposed and the radiation of land plants potentially impacted on CO2 and O2 concentrations and on global climate. In addition, the shift of strontium isotopes during the Ordovician is probably linked to changing terrestrial landscapes, affected by the first massive land invasion of eukaryotic terrestrial life. The land plants seem unaffected by the first global mass extinction at the end of the Ordovician that eliminated many marine invertebrate taxa.
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- 2019
16. Morphological and genomic assessment of divergence between closely related species of the genus Philaenus (Hemiptera, Aphrophoridae)
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Seabra, S.G., Neto, C., Rodrigues, A.S.B., Streito, Jean-Claude, Genson, Guénaëlle, Pierre, Eric, Silva, S.E., Marabuto, E., Figueiredo, E., Mateus, C., Wilson, M., Rei, F., Quartau, J.A., Paulo, O.S., Rebelo, M.T., Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA), Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations (UMR CBGP), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária = National Institute for Agrarian and Veterinary Research [Oeiras, Portugal] (INIAV), National Museum of Wales, Universidade de Évora, and Universidade de Lisboa = University of Lisbon (ULISBOA)
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[SDV.BA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
National audience
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- 2019
17. Taxonomic difficulties among some potential vectors of Xylella in Europe
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Wilson, M., Stewart, A.J.A., Streito, Jean-Claude, Seabra, S., National Museum of Wales, University of Sussex, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations (UMR CBGP), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Universidade de Lisboa = University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), and Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA)
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Animal biology ,[SDV.BA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology ,Biologie animale ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
National audience
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- 2019
18. A late-surviving Triassic protomonaxonid sponge from the Paris Biota (Bear Lake County, Idaho, USA)
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Botting, Joseph P., Brayard, Arnaud, Bylund, Kevin G., Escarguel, Gilles, Fara, Emmanuel, Goudemand, Nicolas, Guériau, Pierre, Jenks, James F., Krumenacker, Laurel J., Olivier, Nicolas, Stephen, Daniel A., Thomazo, Christophe, Thoury, Mathieu, Vennin, Emmanuelle, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (NIGPAS-CAS), Chinese Academy of Sciences [Nanjing Branch], National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, Biogéosciences [UMR 6282] (BGS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés (LEHNA), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État (ENTPE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (IGFL), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Synchrotron SOLEIL (SSOLEIL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Earth Sciences, Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL), Idaho Museum of Natural History, Idaho State University, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans (LMV), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement et la société-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Earth Sciences, Utah Valley University (UVU), Institut photonique d'analyse non-destructive européen des matériaux anciens (IPANEMA), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC), ANR-13-JS06-0001,AFTER,Après la fin : la reconstruction des communautés marines durant la rediversification du Trias inférieur.(2013), ANR-15-IDEX-0003,BFC,ISITE ' BFC(2015), Biogéosciences [UMR 6282] [Dijon] (BGS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État (ENTPE), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement et la société-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR: ISITE-BFC,ANR-15-IDEX-0003, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement et la société-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)
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010506 paleontology ,Spathian ,Taphonomy ,Protomonaxonida ,Paleozoic ,Fauna ,Paris Biota ,Early Triassic ,Paleontology ,Biota ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Porifera ,Lazarus taxon ,Space and Planetary Science ,Ordovician ,14. Life underwater ,Mesozoic ,[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology ,Geology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
7 pages; International audience; Protomonaxonid sponges are a major group of Cambrian and Ordovician fossils in exceptionallypreserved (especially Burgess Shale-type) faunas, but are rare thereafter. Rare examples of apparentsurviving lineages are known from the late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic, but by this time more derivedgroups of sponges have generally displaced them in at least shallow-water (shelf depth) ecosystems. Theearly Spathian (Early Triassic) Paris Biota includes abundant material of a new leptomitidprotomonaxonid, Pseudoleptomitus advenus Botting nov. gen., nov. sp., distinguished by having anunbundled longitudinal skeleton and very weak transverse component. This is the first post-Ordovicianleptomitid known, and indicates long-term survival of the group in unknown environments. Itsoccurrence near storm wave base is similar to the preferred environment of earlier examples of thefamily, suggesting either ecological rarity or taphonomic reasons for their 200-million-year absencefrom later Palaeozoic rocks.
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19. Continental data on cave-dwelling spider communities across Europe (Arachnida: Araneae)
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Kadir Boğaç Kunt, Theo Blick, Pedro Cardoso, Samuel Danflous, Julian Carter, Carles Ribera, Christian Komposch, Fulvio Gasparo, Hervé Brustel, László Dányi, Stefano Mammola, Andrej Mock, Marjan Komnenov, Carlos Prieto, Maria Naumova, Marco Isaia, Martina Pavlek, Robert S. Vargovitsh, Srećko Ćurčić, Sylvain Déjean, Oana Teodora Moldovan, Vlastimil Růžička, Dorottya Angyal, Gergely Balázs, Christo Deltshev, Stefan Zaenker, Mert Elverici, Robert Rozwałka, L'ubomír Kováč, Jon Fernández, University of Turin, Finnish Museum of Natural History (LUOMUS), University of Helsinki, Hungarian Natural History Museum (Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Institute of Biology [Budapest], Faculty of Sciences [Budapest], Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)-Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)-Faculty of Sciences [Budapest], Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)-Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Independent Researcher, Dynamiques Forestières dans l'Espace Rural (DYNAFOR), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École nationale supérieure agronomique de Toulouse [ENSAT]-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Ecole d'Ingénieurs de Purpan (INPT - EI Purpan), Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, Conservatoire d'Espaces Naturels Midi-Pyrénées - CEN MP (FRANCE), National Museum of Natural History [Sofia], Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University (AYBU), University of Barcelona, Società Alpina delle Giulie, Institut für Tierökologie und Naturbildung, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Institute of Speleology, Institut Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Croatian Biospelological Society, Rudjer Boskovic Institute [Zagreb], Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics Research Group, Cancer Research Center (IBMCC-CIC, CSIC-USAL), University of the Basque Country [Bizkaia] (UPV/EHU), Animal Cell Biology, University of the Basque Country, Zakład Zoologii (UMCS), Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Institute of Entomology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), University of Applied Sciences [Fulda], and Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology [University of Turin]
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,life ,Meta menardi ,Arthropoda ,Range (biology) ,Araneae ,cave ,Europe ,spiders ,subterranean biology ,troglophile ,troglobiont ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cave ,Arachnida ,Ecology & Environmental sciences ,Animalia ,Chelicerata ,meta-menardi ,lcsh:QH301-705.5 ,Biology ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Macroecology ,Invertebrata ,Spider ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Ecology ,biology ,araneae ,15. Life on land ,Arachnology ,biology.organism_classification ,colonization ,Biota ,Data Paper (Biosciences) ,030104 developmental biology ,Habitat ,lcsh:Biology (General) ,Zoology & Animal Biology ,europe ,Global biodiversity - Abstract
Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) are widespread in subterranean ecosystems worldwide and represent an important component of subterranean trophic webs. Yet, global-scale diversity patterns of subterranean spiders are still mostly unknown. In the frame of the CAWEB project, a European joint network of cave arachnologists, we collected data on cave-dwelling spider communities across Europe in order to explore their continental diversity patterns. Two main datasets were compiled: one listing all subterranean spider species recorded in numerous subterranean localities across Europe and another with high resolution data about the subterranean habitat in which they were collected. From these two datasets, we further generated a third dataset with individual geo-referenced occurrence records for all these species. Data from 475 geo-referenced subterranean localities (caves, mines and other artificial subterranean sites, interstitial habitats) are herein made available. For each subterranean locality, information about the composition of the spider community is provided, along with local geomorphological and habitat features. Altogether, these communities account for > 300 unique taxonomic entities and 2,091 unique geo-referenced occurrence records, that are made available via the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) (Mammola and Cardoso 2019). This dataset is unique in that it covers both a large geographic extent (from 35° south to 67° north) and contains high-resolution local data on geomorphological and habitat features. Given that this kind of high-resolution data are rarely associated with broad-scale datasets used in macroecology, this dataset has high potential for helping researchers in tackling a range of biogeographical and macroecological questions, not necessarily uniquely related to arachnology or subterranean biology.
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20. A rare late Mississippian flora from Northwestern Europe (Maine-et-Loire Coalfield, Pays de la Loire, France)
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Christine Strullu-Derrien, Ellen Stolle, V.O. Leshyk, Alan R.T. Spencer, Céline Ducassou, Christopher J. Cleal, The Natural History Museum [London] (NHM), Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB ), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA), National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, Géosciences Rennes (GR), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Rennes (OSUR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Earth Science and Engineering [Imperial College London], Imperial College London, PA-GA201803, Palaeontological Association, Mécènes et Loire Fondation and Terra Botanica, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Rennes (OSUR), and Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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0106 biological sciences ,010506 paleontology ,Context (language use) ,Biostratigraphy ,Serpukhovian ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Swamp ,Floristics ,palaeofloristics ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Ecology ,Paleontology ,Vegetation ,15. Life on land ,coal swamp vegetation ,Habitat ,[SDU.STU.ST]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Stratigraphy ,Pennsylvanian ,vegetation reconstructions ,biostratigraphy ,[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology - Abstract
International audience; Numerous localities in the Maine-et-Loire coalfield in northwestern France have yielded diverse adpression floras belonging to the Calymmotheca stangeri Zone, indicating an early Namurian (Serpukhovian–late Mississippian) age. The floristic affinities are with the South European Palaeoprovince, although there is some evidence of an ecotonal relationship with the Central European Palaeoprovince to the north. The geological context of the deposits suggest that the floras may represent vegetation from an intra-montane setting, although at lower elevations compared with the Pennsylvanian-age Variscan intra-montane basins. This represents some of the earliest known examples of coal swamp vegetation, although compared with the Pennsylvanian-aged coal swamps there was a significantly higher proportion of lycopsid species and a lower proportion of medullosaleans. Most of the Maine-et-Loire fossiliferous localities yielded diverse assemblages of lycopsids, equisetopsids, ferns and Calymmotheca species, and these were used to develop a pictorial reconstruction of this early coal swamp vegetation. However, two of the localities yielded adpressions and associated palynofloras with a greater predominance of lycopsids and sphenopsids, suggesting vegetation of wetter habitats. Two other localities yielded species of a more Pennsylvanian aspect such as Cardioneuropteris and Karinopteris, which may represent drier substrate vegetation.
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21. Plants-the great survivors!
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Philippe Gerrienne, Thomas Servais, John M. Anderson, Christopher J. Cleal, Borja Cascales-Miñana, Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 (Evo-Eco-Paléo), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de paléontologie et paleogéographie du paleozoique (LPPP), Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, Paléobotanique, Paléopalynologie et Micropaléontologie, Université de Liège, and Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 (Evo-Eco-Paléo (EEP))
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010506 paleontology ,Stratigraphy ,Paleontology ,Geology ,14. Life underwater ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,Socioeconomics ,[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology ,01 natural sciences ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Earth-Surface Processes - Abstract
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- 2018
22. New species for Virgilia Stål, 1870 (Hemiptera, Lophopidae), genus review and key to species
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Michael R. Wilson, Adeline Soulier-Perkins, Mario V. Navasero, Sheryl A. Yap, Mécanismes Adaptatifs et Evolution (MECADEV), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and National Museum of Wales - Cardiff
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Male ,0106 biological sciences ,Insecta ,Lophopidae ,Arthropoda ,Philippines ,010607 zoology ,Arecaceae ,Agricultural pest ,[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Fulgoromorpha ,Hemiptera ,Genus ,Virgilia ,Botany ,Animals ,Animalia ,agricultural pest ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Taxonomy ,coconut ,biology ,Terminalia ,Organ Size ,Biodiversity ,Mindanao ,biology.organism_classification ,[SDV.BA.ZI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology ,Key (lock) ,Animal Science and Zoology ,PEST analysis ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,[SDV.EE.IEO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment/Symbiosis - Abstract
International audience; Two new species of the lophopid genus Virgilia Stål 1866, are described and illustrated, V. cocovora Soulier-Perkins sp. nov. and V. imuganensis Soulier-Perkins sp. nov. A key to the species of the genus is provided. Photos for the four Virgilia species are presented and the male terminalia illustrations are given. A comment on the potential pest status of one of the described species, V. cocovora, is given.
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23. Middle Pennsylvanian vegetation of the San Giorgio Basin, southern Sardinia (Italy)
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Paola Pittau, Christopher J. Cleal, Evelyn Kustatscher, Giovanni Giuseppe Scanu, Carla Buosi, National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations (UMR AMAP), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Dipartimento di scienze Chimiche Universita di Cagliari, DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE CHIMICHE, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Universita degli Studi di Cagliari [Cagliari], Universität München (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geobiologie), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])
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010506 paleontology ,Palaeobotany ,Macrofossil ,Biostratigraphy ,Geology ,Vegetation ,Structural basin ,[SDV.BV.BOT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Botanics ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,Sardinia ,[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy ,01 natural sciences ,Moscovian ,Tectonics ,Paleontology ,[SDV.EE.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment/Ecosystems ,Pennsylvanian ,Paleobotany ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
The small, intramontane San Giorgio Basin in southwestern Sardinia has yielded plant macrofossils dominated by sphenophytes, but with subsidiary pteridosperms, ferns, (?)noeggerathians and cordaitanthaleans. They belong to the upper part of theCrenulopteris acadicaZone or possibly theOdontopteris cantabricaZone, indicating a late Asturian or Cantabrian (≡ late Moscovian) age. They therefore correlate with the post-Leonian deposits in northern Spain, the Nýřany Member in Western and Central Bohemia, and the Llantwit Beds in South Wales. The presence of post-tectonic deposits of this age is further evidence of the widespread influence of the Leonian Phase of tectonic activity in middle Asturian times, whose effect can be observed across Europe. The San Giorgio Basin is therefore a late Variscan rather than post-Variscan basin.
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24. Spiders in caves: the CAWEB project
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Mammola, Stefano, Gasparo, Fulvio, Komenov, Marjan, Růžička, Vlastimil, Déjean, Sylvain, Danflous, Samuel, Brustel, Hervé, Vargovitsh, Robert S., Rozwałka, Robert, Moldovan, Oana, Pavlek, Martina, Deltshev, Christo, Petrov, Boyan, Naumova, Maria, Mock, Andrej, Kovac, Lubomir, Cardoso, Pedro, Dányi, László, Angyal, Dorottya, Balázs, Gergely, Ribera, Carles, Prieto, Carlos E., Fernández, Jon, Komposch, Christian, Carter, Julian, Isaia, Marco, Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology [University of Turin], University of Turin, Società Alpina delle Giulie, Blwd Kuzman Josifovski Pitu, Independent, Institute of Entomology, Conservatoire Régional des Espaces Naturels Midi-Pyrénées (CREN Midi-Pyrénées), Dynamiques Forestières dans l'Espace Rural (DYNAFOR), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École nationale supérieure agronomique de Toulouse [ENSAT]-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Dynamiques et écologie des paysages agriforestiers (DYNAFOR), École nationale supérieure agronomique de Toulouse [ENSAT]-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave. NW, Zakład Zoologii (UMCS), Institute of Speleology, Croatian Biospelological Society, Rudjer Boskovic Institute [Zagreb], National Museum of Natural History, Institut Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, University of Helsinki, Hungarian Natural History Museum (Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum), Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Institute of Biology [Budapest], Faculty of Sciences [Budapest], Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)-Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)-Faculty of Sciences [Budapest], Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)-Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Animal Cell Biology, University of the Basque Country, University of Barcelona, Institut für Tierökologie und Naturbildung, and National Museum of Wales
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subterranean taxa ,araignée ,araneae ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,ecology ,biogeography ,spider ,model organisms - Abstract
session 01 - Diversity and faunistics; World experts of different disciplines, from molecular biology to macroecology, recognize the value of cave ecosystems as ideal ecological and evolutionary laboratories. Among other subterranean taxa, spiders stand out as intriguing model organisms for their ecological role of top-predators, their unique adaptations to the hypogean medium and their sensitivity to anthropogenic disturbance. Here, we provide a general overview of the spider families recorded in hypogean habitats in Europe–20 families including nearly 500 species, most of them with restricted distributions. We also review the different adaptations of hypogean spiders to subterranean life and summarize the information gathered so far about their origin, population structure, ecology and conservation status. Taxonomic knowledge on subterranean spiders in Europe appears to be well, but not exhaustively documented. The origin of the European assemblages is mostly explained by past climate dynamics, although other factors are likely to be involved. Most of the macroecological issues related to spiders in European caves are based on qualitative assessments or have been quantified only at a sub-regional scale. In order to shed light on cave spiders’ biogeography and the macroecological patterns driving the diversity of European subterranean spiders we created the CAWEB network, a spontaneous collaboration between subterranean arachnologists from 30 different European countries. We here present the team and provide some preliminary results, which highlight Southern Europe as an important hot-spot for the European subterranean spider diversity.
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25. Revision of African Lophops , a rapidly diversified lineage (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea: Lophopidae)
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Michael R. Wilson, Adeline Soulier-Perkins, Mécanismes Adaptatifs et Evolution (MECADEV), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and National Museum of Wales - Cardiff
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Ecology ,Lineage (evolution) ,[SDV.BID.EVO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE] ,Zoology ,Biology ,biology.organism_classification ,[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Hemiptera ,Auchenorrhyncha ,[SDV.BA.ZI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology ,03 medical and health sciences ,030104 developmental biology ,Genus ,Insect Science ,Key (lock) ,Terra incognita ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
The African and Middle East species of the genus Lophops Spinola, 1839 are revised and 7 new species are described: L. bwamba, L. incognita, L. kwazulu, L. malagarassi, L. sigwalti, L. stilleri and L. watshami. A key to the African species is provided.
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26. Unexpected Early Triassic marine ecosystem and the rise of the Modern evolutionary fauna
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Brayard, Arnaud, Krumenacker, L. J., Botting, Joseph P., Jenks, James F., Bylund, Kevin G., Fara, Emmanuel, Vennin, Emmanuelle, Olivier, Nicolas, Goudemand, Nicolas, Saucede, Thomas, Charbonnier, Sylvain, Romano, Carlo, Doguzhaeva, Larisa, Ben Thuy, Hautmann, Michael, Stephen, Daniel A., Thomazo, Christophe, Escarguel, Gilles, Biogéosciences [UMR 6282] [Dijon] (BGS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Earth Sciences [MSU Bozeman], Montana State University (MSU), Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Department of Geology, National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans (LMV), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement et la société-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (IGFL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), Centre de recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements (CR2P), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich [Zürich] = University of Zurich (UZH), Department of Palaeobiology [Stockholm], Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM), Department of Palaeontology, Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle de Luxembourg (MNHN), Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University (UVU), Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés (LEHNA), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État (ENTPE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR-13-JS06-0001-01, ANR-14-ACHN-0010, ANR-13-JS06-0001,AFTER,Après la fin : la reconstruction des communautés marines durant la rediversification du Trias inférieur.(2013), ANR-14-ACHN-0010,EvoDevOdonto,Origine et evolution des appendices epitheliaux chez les vertebres: une perspective interdisciplinaire(2014), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement et la société-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universität Zürich [Zürich] (UZH), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État (ENTPE), Biogéosciences [UMR 6282] (BGS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement et la société-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), University of Zurich, Brayard, Arnaud, Biogéosciences [Dijon] ( BGS ), AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Université de Bourgogne ( UB ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University ( MSU ), Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand ( OPGC ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Université Clermont Auvergne ( UCA ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans ( LMV ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] ( UJM ) -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement et la société-Université Clermont Auvergne ( UCA ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon ( IGFL ), École normale supérieure - Lyon ( ENS Lyon ) -Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique ( INRA ) -Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 ( UCBL ), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Centre de recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements ( CR2P ), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle ( MNHN ) -Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Universität Zürich [Zürich] ( UZH ), Department of Palaeobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum Luxembourg, Utah Valley University, Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés ( LEHNA ), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique ( INRA ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État ( ENTPE ) -Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 ( UCBL ), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon, ANR-13-JS06-0001,AFTER,Après la fin : la reconstruction des communautés marines durant la rediversification du Trias inférieur. ( 2013 ), ANR-14-ACHN-0010,EvoDevOdonto,Origine et evolution des appendices epitheliaux chez les vertebres: une perspective interdisciplinaire ( 2014 ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement et la société-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)
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Aquatic Organisms ,1000 Multidisciplinary ,Fossils ,Idaho ,Paris Biota ,SciAdv r-articles ,Paleontology ,End-Permian mass extinction ,10125 Paleontological Institute and Museum ,Early Triassic ,Biological Evolution ,[ SDE ] Environmental Sciences ,560 Fossils & prehistoric life ,biotic recovery ,[SDE]Environmental Sciences ,Animals ,marine ecosystems ,[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology ,Ecosystem ,Phylogeny ,Research Articles ,Research Article ,[ SDU.STU.PG ] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology - Abstract
A new marine fossil assemblage from the Early Triassic shows unexpected phyletic diversity and functional complexity., In the wake of the end-Permian mass extinction, the Early Triassic (~251.9 to 247 million years ago) is portrayed as an environmentally unstable interval characterized by several biotic crises and heavily depauperate marine benthic ecosystems. We describe a new fossil assemblage—the Paris Biota—from the earliest Spathian (middle Olenekian, ~250.6 million years ago) of the Bear Lake area, southeastern Idaho, USA. This highly diversified assemblage documents a remarkably complex marine ecosystem including at least seven phyla and 20 distinct metazoan orders, along with algae. Most unexpectedly, it combines early Paleozoic and middle Mesozoic taxa previously unknown from the Triassic strata, among which are primitive Cambrian-Ordovician leptomitid sponges (a 200–million year Lazarus taxon) and gladius-bearing coleoid cephalopods, a poorly documented group before the Jurassic (~50 million years after the Early Triassic). Additionally, the crinoid and ophiuroid specimens show derived anatomical characters that were thought to have evolved much later. Unlike previous works that suggested a sluggish postcrisis recovery and a low diversity for the Early Triassic benthic organisms, the unexpected composition of this exceptional assemblage points toward an early and rapid post-Permian diversification for these clades. Overall, it illustrates a phylogenetically diverse, functionally complex, and trophically multileveled marine ecosystem, from primary producers up to top predators and potential scavengers. Hence, the Paris Biota highlights the key evolutionary position of Early Triassic fossil ecosystems in the transition from the Paleozoic to the Modern marine evolutionary fauna at the dawn of the Mesozoic era.
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27. The plant fossil record reflects just two great extinction events
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Borja Cascales-Miñana, Christopher J. Cleal, Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations (UMR AMAP), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Department of Biodiversity and Systematic Biology, National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), and ANR-2010-BLAN-607-02 'TERRES'
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Extinction event ,Fossil Record ,Permian ,Ecology ,[SDV.BID.EVO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE] ,Geology ,social sciences ,humanities ,Cretaceous ,Biodiversity crisis ,Permian Mass Extinction ,Paleontology ,Carboniferous ,Plant fossil ,Ordovician ,Late Devonian extinction ,14. Life underwater ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,Permian–Triassic extinction event - Abstract
International audience; Five great taxonomic extinctions (the so-called "Big Five Mass Extinctions") are widely recognized in life history, at the end of the Ordovician, Frasnian (Late Devonian), Permian, Triassic and Cretaceous. All of them were originally identified in the marine fossil record and have been interpreted as the result of abrupt global environmental changes. Previous evidence has suggested that terrestrial biotas were also subjected to ecological disruption during these events, but it is unknown whether they suffered the same level of large-scale taxonomic disruption as marine organisms. Here we show that the plant fossil record in fact only provides evidence of two mass taxonomic extinction events, one through the Carboniferous-Permian transition, the other during middle-late Permian times. This differs significantly from the mass extinctions recognized in the marine realm and suggests that vascular plants have a special capacity for surviving abrupt environmental changes
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28. What is the best way to measure extinction? A reflection from the palaeobotanical record
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Borja Cascales-Miñana, José B. Diez, Christopher J. Cleal, Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations (UMR AMAP), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Department of Biodiversity and Systematic Biology, National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, Facultad Ciencias del Mar, Universidate de Vigo, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), and Universidade de Vigo
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0106 biological sciences ,Extinction event ,010506 paleontology ,Extinction ,Evolutionary success ,Sampling (statistics) ,Diversity fluctuations ,Context (language use) ,social sciences ,Biology ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Sampling bias ,Paleontology ,Sample size determination ,Statistics ,[SDE.BE.EVO]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology/domain_sde.be.evo ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Plant fossils ,Metric (unit) ,Extinction metrics ,Scale (map) ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
International audience; Documenting extinction phenomena remains a vital topic in palaeontology, especially in the context of the marine fossil record. It has been widely assumed that the methods that have been developed in these studies are of universal application throughout palaeontology, but there have been few attempts to test them with plant fossils. We explored the adequacy of the most common methods for documenting extinction events and the associated loss of diversity through time by exploring the monographic knowledge of tracheophytes, especially the record of non-flowering seed-plants. The measure of extinctions was addressed by evaluating diversity fluctuations and the corresponding sampling biases, by measuring levels of taxonomic extinctions, and by exploring disruptions to similarity patterns between time units. Results revealed a strong relationship between diversity and sampling effort based on various different sampling proxies. This suggests that it is vital to take into account the effect of sampling bias when trying to use palaeobotanical diversity dynamics to quantify the real scale of extinction. After testing 16 metrics in two different temporal frameworks, by using criteria like the adjustment between the descriptive extinction metric and the derived probabilistic profile, the interpretation of extinction intensity was overall improved by using normalized metrics that discounted short-lived taxa. Results also revealed that sample size has a significant effect on such analyses and must be evaluated independently for each study before data interpretation. Complementarily, the results showed how the main disturbances of diversity curves generally attributed to extinction events are reflected as abrupt reductions of similarity coefficients between successive time units, which are clearly revealed using clustering methods.
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29. Combined Use of Morphological and Molecular Tools to Resolve Species Mis-Identifications in the Bivalvia The Case of Glycymeris glycymeris and G. pilosa
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Julien Thébault, Ariadna Purroy, Amy M. Featherstone, Tanja Šegvić-Bubić, Ivana Bušelić, Melita Peharda, Anna M. Holmes, National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR) (LEMAR), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Project: 604802,EC:FP7:PEOPLE,FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN,ARAMACC(2013), and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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0301 basic medicine ,Pilosa ,lcsh:Medicine ,Monophyly ,Sclerochronology ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,mollusca-bivalvia ,lcsh:Science ,Data Management ,Multidisciplinary ,biology ,Phylogenetic tree ,Ecology ,dna polymorphism ,Phylogenetic Analysis ,Phylogenetics ,Connective Tissue ,Anatomy ,section ,Research Article ,Bivalves ,Computer and Information Sciences ,sea ,Imaging Techniques ,growth ,dog cockle ,Research and Analysis Methods ,03 medical and health sciences ,sclerochronological archive ,Genetics ,Animals ,patterns ,Evolutionary Systematics ,14. Life underwater ,bivalve ,identification ,Glycymeris ,Adriatic ,phylogenetics ,Molecular Biology Techniques ,Molecular Biology ,Taxonomy ,Morphometrics ,Genetic diversity ,Evolutionary Biology ,Molecular Biology Assays and Analysis Techniques ,Ligaments ,Population Biology ,ACL ,Morphometry ,lcsh:R ,Ecology and Environmental Sciences ,Organisms ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Paleontology ,Molluscs ,biology.organism_classification ,Invertebrates ,030104 developmental biology ,Biological Tissue ,Haplotypes ,Evolutionary biology ,Earth Sciences ,arctica-islandica ,lcsh:Q ,Paleoecology ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,Paleobiology ,Paleogenetics ,Dog cockle ,Population Genetics - Abstract
00000 ăWOS:000384167300004; International audience; Morphological and molecular tools were combined to resolve the misidentification between Glycymeris glycymeris and Glycymeris pilosa from Atlantic and Mediterranean populations. The ambiguous literature on the taxonomic status of these species requires this confirmation as a baseline to studies on their ecology and sclerochronology. We used classical and landmark-based morphometric approaches and performed bivariate and multivariate analyses to test for shell character interactions at the individual and population level. Both approaches generated complementary information. The former showed the shell width to length ratio and the valve asymmetry to be the main discriminant characters between Atlantic and Mediterranean populations. Additionally, the external microsculpture of additional and finer secondary ribs in G. glycymeris discriminates it from G. pilosa. Likewise, landmark-based geometric morphometrics revealed a stronger opisthogyrate beak and prosodetic ligament in G. pilosa than G. glycymeris. Our Bayesian and maximum likelihood phylogenetic analyses based on COI and ITS2 genes identified that G. glycymeris and G. pilosa form two separate monophyletic clades with mean interspecific divergence of 11% and 0.9% for COI and ITS2, respectively. The congruent patterns of morphometric analysis together with mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenetic reconstructions indicated the separation of the two coexisting species. The intraspecific divergence occurred during the Eocene and accelerated during the late Pliocene and Pleistocene. Glycymeris pilosa showed a high level of genetic diversity, appearing as a more robust species whose tolerance of environmental conditions allowed its expansion throughout the Mediterranean.
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30. Biogeography and affinities of the bradoriid arthropods: Cosmopolitan microbenthos of the Cambrian seas
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Jean Vannier, David J. Siveter, Mark Williams, Leonid E. Popov, Department of Geology [Leicester], University of Leicester, Department of Geology, National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, PaleoEnvironnements et PaleobioSphere (PEPS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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010506 paleontology ,Lejopyge laevigata ,Evolutionary fauna ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,Oceanography ,01 natural sciences ,Paleontology ,Global biogeography ,14. Life underwater ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Earth-Surface Processes ,biology ,Ecology ,Liangshanella ,biology.organism_classification ,Trilobite ,Gondwana ,Cambrian ,Ordovician ,Laurentia ,Bradoriid arthropods ,Bradoriida ,[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology ,Geology - Abstract
This paper reviews the global biogeography and affinities of the Bradoriida, a group of Cambrian-early Ordovician arthropods. Bradoriida appear in the fossil record during the early Cambrian, just prior to the earliest trilobite faunas. Seven families may form a natural (monophyletic) group of Bradoriida sensu stricto, comprising Cambriidae, Kunmingellidae, Comptalutidae, Bradoriidae, Hipponicharionidae, Beyrichonidae and Svealutidae. Amongst the Bradoriida sensu lato, some forms that lie outside these families have carapace designs that suggest an ostracod affinity, particularly Altajanella and Vojbokalina. Bradoriida formed a major element of the 'Cambrian evolutionary fauna' and are components of the Chengjiang, Burgess Shale, and Buen Formation Lagerstätten. Bradoriida achieved global distribution from the Atdabanian (early Cambrian). Their diversity peaked during the early and middle Cambrian, with highest diversity at the species and genus level amongst the palaeo-tropical faunas of the South China (17 genera) and east Gondwana palaeocontinental regions (23 genera). By contrast Laurentian faunas were of much lower diversity (10 genera for the whole Cambrian). Bradoriid diversity declined rapidly from the latest middle Cambrian, a trend that may be related to the major extinction of trilobites at the base of the late Cambrian. The youngest Bradoriida comprise a few, rare Ordovician forms. Bradoriids appear to have occupied well-oxygenated marine shelf facies. The biogeographical patterns of early and middle Cambrian Bradoriida suggest climatic control on their distribution (temperate and tropical faunas), together with palaeogeographical constraints that also reflect trilobite provinciality. Kunmingellids and comptalutids were restricted to palaeo-tropical/subtropical sites, but migrated between South China, Siberia and eastern Gondwana palaeocontinents. They are absent from the mid- and high latitude faunas of the western Gondwana, Avalonia and Baltica palaeocontinental areas that were dominated by hipponicharionids, beyrichonids and Bradoriidae. The Laurentia palaeocontinent was isolated from the main zones of bradoriid diversity, but its faunas include a number of early and middle Cambrian Bradoriidae (Indota, Bradoria, Walcottella), and the region was colonised by cosmopolitan cambriids during the early Cambrian and by supposed pelagic svealutids (Liangshanella and Anabarochilina) during the middle Cambrian. The genera Walcottella, Dielymella and Bullaluta were endemic to Laurentia. One species of Anabarochilina that possibly dwelt near the sea-surface achieved an equatorial to high southern latitude (70° S) distribution during the late middle Cambrian (Lejopyge laevigata Biozone), perhaps reflecting a reduced latitudinal temperature gradient for near surface ocean waters. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- 2016
31. Soft-part preservation in a bivalved arthropod from the Late Ordovician of Wales
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R. A. Waters, Jan Zalasiewicz, Jeremy Davies, Jean Vannier, Mark Williams, Philip R. Wilby, Alex Page, Department of Earth Sciences [Cambridge, UK], University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Department of Geology [Leicester], University of Leicester, British Geological Survey (BGS), PaleoEnvironnements et PaleobioSphere (PEPS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Geology, and National Museum of Wales - Cardiff
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zooplankton ,010506 paleontology ,Taphonomy ,Paleozoic ,inner lamella ,Fauna ,taphonomy ,[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences ,Metamorphism ,Geology ,eyes ,Authigenic ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,01 natural sciences ,organic preservation ,Katian ,Sedimentary depositional environment ,Paleontology ,arthropod ,Ordovician ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
A new component of the Early Palaeozoic arthropod fauna is described from a monospecific accumulate of carapaces in a Late Ordovician (Katian) hemipelagic mudstone from the Cardigan district of southwest Wales (UK). Its non-biomineralized carapace is preserved as a carbonaceous residue, as is more labile anatomy (soft-parts) including the inner lamella and sub-ovate structures near its antero-dorsal margin, which we interpret to be putative eyes. The depositional context and associated fauna indicate that the arthropods inhabited an area of deep water and high primary productivity above a pronounced submarine topography. The preserved density of carapaces suggests the arthropods may have congregated into shoals or been transported post-mortem into depressions which acted as detritus traps. The accumulate provides a rare example of soft-part preservation in hemipelagic mudstones and highlights the role of organic material as a locus for authigenic mineralization during metamorphism.
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- 2009
32. A mysterious giant ichthyosaur from the lowermost Jurassic of Wales
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Peggy Vincent, Valentin Fischer, Jeremy E. Martin, Cindy Howells, Tom Sharpe, Guillaume Suan, Matt Williams, Peter Hodges, University of Bristol [Bristol], Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart (SMNS), Centre de recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements (CR2P), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, Bath Royal Literary ans Scientific Institution, Université de Liège, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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010506 paleontology ,Range (biology) ,Ichthyosauria ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,01 natural sciences ,lcsh:GN282-286.7 ,Paleontology ,Shastasauridae ,Lazarus taxon ,Marine reptiles ,lcsh:Fossil man. Human paleontology ,Ichthyosaur ,gigantism ,Blue Lias ,lcsh:QE701-760 ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,biology ,Total body ,biology.organism_classification ,humanities ,lcsh:Paleontology ,Period (geology) ,[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology ,Geology - Abstract
International audience; Ichthyosaurs rapidly diversified and colonised a wide range of ecological niches during the Early and Middle Triassic period, but experienced a major decline in diversity near the end of the Triassic. Timing and causes of this demise and the subsequent rapid radiation of the diverse, but less disparate, parvipelvian ichthyosaurs are still unknown, notably because of inadequate sampling in strata of latest Triassic age. Here, we describe an exceptionally large radius from Lower Jurassic deposits at Penarth near Cardiff, south Wales (UK) the morphology of which places it within the giant Triassic shastasaurids. A tentative total body size estimate, based on a regression analysis of various complete ichthyosaur skeletons , yields a value of 12–15 m. The specimen is substantially younger than any previously reported last known occurrences of shastasaurids and implies a Lazarus range in the lowermost Jurassic for this ichthyosaur morphotype.
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- 2014
33. Direct and indirect effects of nitrogen deposition on species composition change in calcareous grasslands
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Van Den Berg, Leon JL, Vergeer, Philippine, Rich, Tim CG, Smart, Simon M, Guest, Dan, Ashmore, Mike R, Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud university [Nijmegen], Environment, University of York [York, UK], Department of Ecogenomics, Dept. Biodiversity & Systematic Biology, National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, Lancaster University, and Countryside Council for Wales
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International audience; Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition has been identified as a major threat to biodiversity, but field surveys of its effects have rarely focussed on sites which are actively managed to maintain characteristic species. We analysed permanent quadrat data from 106 plots in nature reserves on calcareous grassland sites in the UK collected during a survey between 1990 and 1993 and compared the data with the results from re-survey of 48 of these plots between 2006 and 2009. N deposition showed no significant spatial association with species richness, species diversity, or the frequency of species adapted to low nutrient conditions in the 1990-1993 dataset. However, temporal analysis showed that N deposition was significantly associated with changes in Shannon diversity and evenness. In plots with high rates of N deposition, there was a decrease in species diversity and evenness, a decline in the frequency of characteristic calcareous grassland species, and a lower number of rare and scarce species. Since all sites had active management to maintain a high diversity and characteristic species, our results imply that even focussed management on nature conservation objectives cannot prevent adverse effects of high rates of N deposition. Structural equation modelling was used to compare different causal mechanisms to explain the observed effects. For change in Shannon diversity, direct effects of N deposition were the dominant mechanism and there was an independent effect of change in grazing intensity. In contrast, for change in herb species number, indirect effects on soil acidity, linked to both N and S deposition, were more important than direct effects of N deposition.
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- 2010
34. Current and possible future distributions of phytoplasma diseases and their vectors
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Xavier Foissac, Michael R. Wilson, ProdInra, Migration, Phyllis G. Weintraub (Editeur), Phil Jones (Editeur), Génomique, développement et pouvoir pathogène (GD2P), Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), and National Museum of Wales
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0106 biological sciences ,Ecology ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,BACTERIOLOGIE ,Global warming ,Climate change ,FUTUR ,Biology ,GEOGRAPHIE ,biology.organism_classification ,DISTRIBUTION FUTURE ,01 natural sciences ,Crop protection ,[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio] ,010602 entomology ,Phytoplasma ,Current (fluid) ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,010606 plant biology & botany - Abstract
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- 2010
35. Other Hemiptera Sternorrhyncha (Aleyrodidae, Phylloxeroidea, and Psylloidea) and Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha
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Mifsud, David, Cocquempot, Christian, Mühlethaler, Roland, Wilson, Mike, Streito, Jean-Claude, University of Malta, Partenaires INRAE, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations (UMR CBGP), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Humboldt University of Berlin, National Museum of Wales, Laboratoire National de Protection des Végétaux (LNPV), A. Roques, M. Kenis, D. Lees, C. Lopez-Vaamonde, W. Rabitsch, Jean Yves Rasplus, D.B. Roy, and Humboldt University Of Berlin
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ALEYRODIDAE ,PHYLLOXERIDAE ,INSECTE ,ESPECES INVASIVES ,CICADELLIDAE ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,AUCHENORRHYNCHA ,ALIEN ,ADELGIDAE ,PSYLLIDAE - Abstract
International audience; Apart from aphids and scales, 52 additional Sternorrhyncha hemipteran species alien to Europe have been identifi ed within Aleyrodidae (27 whitefl y species), Phylloxeroidea (9 adelgids, 2 phylloxerans) and Psylloidea (14 species of jumping plant-lice) in addition to 12 Auchenorrhyncha species (mostly Cicadellidae- 8 species). At present, the alien species represent 39% of the total whitefl y fauna and 36% of the total adelgid fauna occuring in Europe. Th e proportion is insignifi cant in the other groups. Th e arrival of alien phylloxerans and adelgids appeared to peak during the fi rst part of the 20th century. In contrast, the mean number of new records per year of alien aleyrodids, psylloids and Auchenorrhyncha increased regularly after the 1950s. For these three groups, an average of 0.5–0.6 new alien species has been recorded per year in Europe since 2000. Th e region of origin of the alien species largely diff ers between the diff erent groups. Alien aleyrodids and psylloids mainly originated from tropical regions whilst the adelgids and phylloxerans came equally from North America and Asia. A major part of the alien Auchenorrhyncha originated from North American. Most of these alien species are presently observed in man-made habitats, especially in parks and gardens but alien adelgids are mainly observed in forests because of their association with conifer trees used for aff orestation.
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36. Fossil clams from a serpentinite-hosted sedimented vent field near the active smoker complex Rainbow, MAR, 36 degrees 13 ' N: Insight into the biogeography of vent fauna
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Lartaud, Franck, De Rafelis, Marc, Oliver, Graham, Krylova, Elena, Dyment, Jerome, Ildefonse, Benoit, Thibaud, Remy, Gente, Pascal, Hoise, Eva, Meistertzheim, Anne-leila, Fouquet, Yves, Gaill, Francoise, Le Bris, Nadine, Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris (iSTeP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR) (LEMAR), Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO), National Museum of Wales - Cardiff, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (SIO), Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS), Laboratoire de Géosciences Marines (LGM), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-IPG PARIS-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Géosciences Montpellier, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Naval Academy Research Institute, Domaines Océaniques (LDO), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers-Institut d'écologie et environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de géologie de l'ENS (LGENS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Biologie et écologie tropicale et méditerranéenne [2007-2010] (BETM), Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Systématique, adaptation, évolution (SAE), Laboratoire d'Ecogéochimie des environnements benthiques (LECOB), Observatoire océanologique de Banyuls (OOB), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Environnement Profond (LEP), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherche de l'Ecole Navale (IRENAV), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Arts et Métiers Sciences et Technologies, HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université (HESAM)-HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université (HESAM), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Etudes des Ecosystèmes Profonds (EEP), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut d'écologie et environnement-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)
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Mid-Atlantic Ridge ,Thyasiridae ,carbon and oxygen isotopes ,Vesicomyidae ,ultramafic-hosted ,[SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography ,bivalve shells - Abstract
International audience; Hydrothermal circulation at ultramafic-hosted sites supports a large variety of high-and low-temperature hydrothermal vents and associated ecosystems. The discovery of abundant fossil vesicomyid and thyasirid shell accumulations at the ridge crest, approximately 2.5 km east of the active Rainbow vent field on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR, 36 degrees 13'N), increased our knowledge regarding the diversity of vent communities at slow spreading ridges. Bivalve molluscs of the family Vesicomyidae were represented by the genus Phreagena. Here we present the first record of this genus in the Atlantic Ocean. This second vesicomyid species known from the MAR, Phreagena sp., was found to be associated with a Thyasira species that is affiliated with T. southwardae (at the Logatchev vent field on the MAR) and with T. vulcolutre (in the Gulf of Cadiz). These two clams have close relationships with seep taxa along the continental margin, and were likely associated with sedimented vent fields. delta O-18 and delta C-13 analyses of the shells suggested that the burrowing bivalve Thyasira could incorporate isotopically light carbon, derived from the oxidation of methane in the sediment, while the signature of Phreagena sp. shells denoted a different carbonate source. C-14 dating of the shells denoted that the hydrothermal activity in the Rainbow area began at least similar to 25.5 kyr BP, which is similar to the model of the hydrothermal vent field distribution that was proposed for the Logatchev hydrothermal site. The results provide new insight regarding the diversity of chemosynthetic fauna on the MAR over geologic time. Ultramafic-hosted, on-axis sedimented vent fields extend the range of habitats for chemosynthetic communities, underlying the need to further explore the geology of these types of environments on slow-spreading ridges and to determine their role in the ecology of deep-sea vent communities.
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37. An overview of the mosquitoes of Saudi Arabia (Diptera: Culicidae), with updated keys to the adult females.
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Dawah HA, Abdullah MA, Ahmad SK, Turner J, and Azari-Hamidian S
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- Female, Animals, Saudi Arabia, Culicidae, Aedes
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Despite the fact that mosquito-borne infections have considerable consequences for public health in Saudi Arabia, there is neither a thorough review of the species that occur in the country nor updated keys for the identification of the adult females. In this study, species accounts are given for 49 Saudi Arabian mosquito species, as well as Aedes albopictus (Skuse), which is not recorded in Saudi Arabia, but is medically important and is found in some countries of the Middle East and North Africa. Taxonomic notes provide additional information for certain taxa and/or aid their identification.
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- 2023
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38. The genome sequence of a darkling beetle, Lagria hirta (Linnaeus, 1758).
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Sivell O, Levey B, and Barclay MVL
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We present a genome assembly from an individual male Lagria hirta (darkling beetle; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Tenebrionidae). The genome sequence is 336.8 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 12 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the X and Y sex chromosomes. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 16.12 kilobases in length. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 12,850protein coding genes., Competing Interests: No competing interests were disclosed., (Copyright: © 2023 Sivell O et al.)
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39. A new leafhopper genus with description of a new species of Scaphoideini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from Saudi Arabia.
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El-Sonbati SA, Wilson MR, and Dhafer HMA
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- Animals, Saudi Arabia, Hemiptera
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The genus Paranataretus El-Sonbati gen. n. is described from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with P. juwayriyae El-Sonbati sp. n. as the type species. Grammacephalus brevis Gnezdilov, 2020 from Madagascar, is placed here in this new genus, as Paranataretus brevis (Gnezdilov) comb. n. A key to the species of Paranataretus is also provided.
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40. A first account of Chyromyidae (Diptera: Acalyptratae) from continental Central and South America and some Caribbean Islands, with descriptions of new species.
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Ebejer MJ
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An account of Neotropical Chyromyidae is given and the following new species are described: Gymnochiromyia semihirta sp. nov., G. tropica sp. nov., Tethysimyia bonairensis sp. nov., T. chilensis sp. nov., T. litophila sp. nov. and T. nigrifacies sp. nov. Aphaniosoma Becker and Notiochyromya Ebejer are reported for the first time from the Neotropical Region. The following species are transferred from Aphaniosoma Becker to Tethysimyia Ebejer: Tethysimyia arenicola (Wheeler, 1994) comb. nov., Tethysimyia aldrichi (Wheeler, 1961) comb. nov., T. galamarilla (Wheeler, 1994) comb. nov., T. macalpinei (Hardy, 1980) comb. nov. and T. minuta (Hardy, 1980) comb. nov., T. rabida (Wheeler, 1994) comb. nov. A key to the Neotropical species of Tethysimyia is provided.
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- 2023
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41. A new genus and species of soft scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) on Ficus sp. from Côte d'Ivoire.
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Hodgson CJ
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- Female, Male, Animals, Cote d'Ivoire, Nymph, Hemiptera, Ficus, Oryza
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During a brief visit to the West African Rice Development Association (WARDA) in Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire, several samples of scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) were collected. Amongst these was an undescribed genus and species of soft scale (Coccidae: Coccinae), Bandamacoccus labiosus Hodgson (gen. nov. and sp. nov.). The adult female and second-instar male nymph are described below. A striking feature of both stages is the large size of the labium, which is wider than the clypeolabral shield, whilst the second-instar male also has a prominent inner submarginal band of ventral microducts.
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- 2023
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42. Erratum: Corrigendum: Salvi D, Al-Kandari M, Oliver PG, Berrilli E, Garzia M (2022) Cryptic marine diversity in the northern Arabian Gulf: an integrative approach uncovers a new species of oyster (Bivalvia: Ostreidae), Ostreaoleomargarita . Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 2022: 7058975. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/7058975.
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Salvi D, Al-Kandari M, Oliver PG, Berrilli E, and Garzia M
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1155/2022/7058975.]., (Daniele Salvi, Manal Al-Kandari, P. Graham Oliver, Emanuele Berrilli, Matteo Garzia.)
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43. Redescriptions of five of Takahashi's soft scale species (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) with comments on their status and relationships.
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Hodgson CJ
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- Animals, Hemiptera
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This paper redescribes and illustrates five currently poorly known species of soft scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) originally described by Ryoichi Takahashi, namely Coccus lumpurensis Takahashi, Maacoccus scolopiae (Takahashi), Membranaria sacchari (Takahashi), Platylecanium cyperi Takahashi and P. mesuae Takahashi. Lectotypes are designated for C. lumpurensis, P. cyperi and P. mesuae. Two of these species are known only from Taiwan, and three from Malaysia. Their status and relationships are discussed. A key to the species of Maacoccus is included.
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- 2023
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44. Three new species of the genus Xenolecanium Takahasi (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae), with an updated generic diagnosis and key to species.
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Hodgson CJ
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- Animals, Hemiptera
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Among the scale insect slide mounts deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, U.K. are several that were originally collected by the late Ryoichi Takahashi. These include slides of three previously undescribed species of Xenolecanium (Coccidae: Coccomorpha), each given a manuscript name by Takahashi. These species are here formally described and illustrated: X. ryoichii Hodgson sp. nov., X. maritimum Hodgson sp. nov. and X. pendleburyi Hodgson sp. nov. A revised generic diagnosis and a key to the five species now known in Xenolecanium is included.
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45. A New Species of the Mealybug Genus Mirococcus (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) from the Cape Verde Islands, with New Records and an Updated Checklist of Scale Insect Species.
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Łagowska B, Golan K, and Hodgson CJ
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In this study, a new species of mealybug from the Cape Verde Islands, Mirococcus capeverdensis Łagowska and Hodgson sp. n., collected on Campylanthus glaber Benth. (Scrophulariaceae) , a native plant to these islands, is described and illustrated based on the adult female. A taxonomic key to the mealybugs from the Afrotropical Region that lack cerarii is provided. In addition, seven scale insect species, namely Aulacaspis tubercularis Newstead, Hemiberlesia cyanophylli (Signoret), Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis (Green), Icerya aegyptiaca (Douglas), Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green), Palmicultor palmarum (Ehrhorn), and Pseudococcus comstocki (Kuwana) are recorded for the first time from the Cape Verde Islands and an updated checklist of Coccomorpha species known from this region, along with their known island distributions and valid sources, is appended., Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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46. Redescription of the Planthopper Bursinia genei (Dufour, 1849), with a New Record from Greece (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Dictyopharidae).
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Davranoglou LR, Malenovský I, Soh ZWW, Schlepütz CM, and Wilson MR
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Bursinia genei (Dufour, 1849) is the most widespread species of the planthopper subfamily Orgeriinae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Dictyopharidae) in Europe, found from the Iberian Peninsula to the Western Balkans. However, its diagnostically important genitalia and biology have been insufficiently described. We employ state-of-the-art synchrotron X-ray microtomography and photomicrography to re-describe B. genei , and to study the morphology of both its sexes in unprecedented detail. By examining specimens from across the distribution of B. genei , we find that they probably belong to a single, broadly distributed morphospecies. Our morphological examination allowed us to make inferences on its jumping mechanism and capacity for vibrational communication. We also record B. genei for the first time from Greece, further extending the range of this elusive species. Detailed information on the habitat of B. genei is also provided.
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47. Adapting mark-recapture methods to estimating accepted species-level diversity: a case study with terrestrial Gastropoda.
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Rosenberg G, Auffenberg K, Bank R, Bieler R, Bouchet P, Herbert D, Köhler F, Neubauer TA, Neubert E, Páll-Gergely B, Richling I, and Schneider S
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- Animals, Mollusca, Fossils, Databases, Factual, Research Design, Gastropoda
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We introduce a new method of estimating accepted species diversity by adapting mark-recapture methods to comparisons of taxonomic databases. A taxonomic database should become more complete over time, so the error bar on an estimate of its completeness and the known diversity of the taxon it treats will decrease. Independent databases can be correlated, so we use the time course of estimates comparing them to understand the effect of correlation. If a later estimate is significantly larger than an earlier one, the databases are positively correlated, if it is significantly smaller, they are negatively correlated, and if the estimate remains roughly constant, then the correlations have averaged out. We tested this method by estimating how complete MolluscaBase is for accepted names of terrestrial gastropods. Using random samples of names from an independent database, we determined whether each name led to a name accepted in MolluscaBase. A sample tested in August 2020 found that 16.7% of tested names were missing; one in July 2021 found 5.3% missing. MolluscaBase grew by almost 3,000 accepted species during this period, reaching 27,050 species. The estimates ranged from 28,409 ± 365 in 2021 to 29,063 ± 771 in 2020. All estimates had overlapping 95% confidence intervals, indicating that correlations between the databases did not cause significant problems. Uncertainty beyond sampling error added 475 ± 430 species, so our estimate for accepted terrestrial gastropods species at the end of 2021 is 28,895 ± 630 species. This estimate is more than 4,000 species higher than previous ones. The estimate does not account for ongoing flux of species into and out of synonymy, new discoveries, or changing taxonomic methods and concepts. The species naming curve for terrestrial gastropods is still far from reaching an asymptote, and combined with the additional uncertainties, this means that predicting how many more species might ultimately be recognized is presently not feasible. Our methods can be applied to estimate the total number of names of Recent mollusks (as opposed to names currently accepted), the known diversity of fossil mollusks, and known diversity in other phyla., Competing Interests: Gary Rosenberg and Rüdiger Bieler are Academic Editors for PeerJ., (© 2022 Rosenberg et al.)
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- 2022
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48. Submarine metalliferous carbonate mounds in the Cambrian of the Baltoscandian Basin induced by vent networks and water column stratification.
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Álvaro JJ, Holmer LE, Shen Y, Popov LE, Ghobadi Pour M, Zhang Z, Zhang Z, Ahlberg P, Bauert H, and González-Acebrón L
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- Calcium Carbonate chemistry, Carbonates metabolism, Metals, Sulfides, Geologic Sediments chemistry, Water
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Two massive precipitation events of polymetallic ore deposits, encrusted by a mixture of authigenic carbonates, are documented from the Cambrian of the semi-enclosed Baltoscandian Basin. δ
34 S (‒9.33 to ‒2.08‰) and δ33 S (‒4.75 to ‒1.06‰) values from the basal sulphide breccias, sourced from contemporaneous Pb-Zn-Fe-bearing vein stockworks, reflect sulphide derived from both microbial and abiotic sulphate reduction. Submarine metalliferous deposits were triggered by non-buoyant hydrothermal plumes: plumes of buoyant fluid were trapped by water column stratification because their buoyancy with respect to the environment reversed, fluids became heavier than their surroundings and gravitational forces brought them to a halt, spreading out laterally from originating vents and resulting in the lateral dispersion of effluents and sulphide particle settling. Subsequently, polymetallic exhalites were sealed by carbonate crusts displaying three generations of ikaite-to-aragonite palisade crystals, now recrystallized to calcite and subsidiary vaterite. Th of fluid inclusions in early calcite crystals, ranging from 65 to 78 ºC, provide minimum entrapment temperatures for carbonate precipitation and early recrystallization. δ13 Ccarb (‒1.1 to + 1.6‰) and δ18 Ocarb (‒7.6 to ‒6.5‰) values are higher than those preserved in contemporaneous glendonite concretions (‒8.5 to ‒4.7‰ and ‒12.4 to ‒9.1‰, respectively) embedded in kerogenous shales, the latter related to thermal degradation of organic matter. Hydrothermal discharges graded from highly reduced, acidic, metalliferous, and hot (~ 150 ºC) to slightly alkaline, calcium-rich and warm (< 100 ºC), controlling the precipitation of authigenic carbonates., (© 2022. The Author(s).)- Published
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49. The genome sequence of Gari tellinella (Lamarck, 1818), a sunset clam.
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Holmes A, Darbyshire T, Brennan M, McTierney S, and Small A
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We present a genome assembly from an individual Gari tellinella (Mollusca; Bivalvia; Cardiida; Psammobiidae). The genome sequence is 1,598 megabases in span. The majority of the assembly (99.85%) is scaffolded into 19 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The complete mitochondrial genome was also assembled and is 18.5 kilobases in length., Competing Interests: No competing interests were disclosed., (Copyright: © 2022 Holmes A et al.)
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50. Draeculacephala robinsoni Hamilton, 1967 (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae), a newly introduced species and genus in Europe with comments on its identification.
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Rsch V, Marques E, Miralles-Nez A, Zahniser JN, and Wilson MR
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- Animals, Disease Vectors, Europe, Introduced Species, Plants, Hemiptera
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For the first time in the Palaearctic Region, the New World leafhopper genus Draeculacephala Ball (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae) has been recorded in France (Pyrenes-Orientales) and Spain (Catalonia). The species present in both countries is Draeculacephala robinsoni Hamilton 1967, among the most common and widespread species of the genus Draeculacephala in eastern North America. Comments on the identification of this species are presented. The species already seems to be firmly established in the region since it has been found in 11 different sites with a maximum distance of 86 km between them. Since the genus has been reported to be a vector of plant pathogens including Xylella fastidiosa its further spread in Europe should be closely monitored.
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