Back to Search
Start Over
Standardised inventories of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) on touristic trails of the native forests of the Azores (Portugal)
- Source :
- Biodiversity Data Journal, Vol 9, Iss, Pp 1-15 (2021), Biodiversity Data Journal 9: e62886, Biodiversity Data Journal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP), instacron:RCAAP
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Pensoft Publishers, 2021.
-
Abstract
- In the Azores, as in many other temperate, semi-tropical and tropical islands, historical patterns of habitat loss have typically resulted in lowland clearance, meaning that the last remnants of the pre-human pristine forest that covered the major parts of oceanic islands are in the mountain areas (Gaspar et al. 2011). The communities of these mountain forests are of critical importance for the protection of current island biodiversity since they are home to many Azorean endemic species (Borges et al. 2017, Borges et al. 2018, Malumbres-Olarte et al. 2019) and provide a variety of ecosystem services (e.g. water storage, erosion control, pollination, pest-control, food supply, recreation and tourism), contributing to the local economy and welfare (Fernandez-Palacios et al. 2017). The recent increase in recreational tourist activities in native habitats of the Azores (SREA 2018) raises concerns about the use of trails being a threat to the already imperilled native forest biodiversity. Hiking trails in particular have been found to be promoting the spread of invasive plants (Barros and Pickering 2014), which may cause adverse cascading effects on arthropods. The spider communities of the Azores are exceptionally well known due to ongoing inventorying and monitoring projects carried out since 1999 (Borges et al. 2016, Emerson et al. 2017, Malumbres-Olarte et al. 2019). The protocol used in NETBIOME ISLANDBIODIV and in this project is part of a long term monitoring proposal for oceanic islands (Borges et al. 2018). This research was supported by a Ph.D. scholarship from the Azores Governmentto to Rui Carvalho (DRCT M3.1.a/F/135/2015). Data was obtained mostly during the Rui Carvalho DRCT scholarship, but some samples are from a previous project (ERA-Net NetBiome research framework, financed through Portuguese FCT-NETBIOME ISLANDBIODIV grant 0003/2011). Open access was funded by FEDER in 85% and by Azorean Public funds by 15% through Operational Programme Azores 2020, under the project AZORESBIOPORTAL –PORBIOTA (ACORES-01-0145-FEDER-000072). info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Arthropoda
QH301-705.5
Biodiversity & Conservation
Biodiversity
Macaronesi
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Endemic Species
Abundance (ecology)
Oceans
Arachnida
Macaronesia
Ecology & Environmental sciences
Animalia
14. Life underwater
Biology (General)
Endemism
Recreation
Invertebrata
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Spider
Ecology
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
endemic species
Recreation ecology
hiking
15. Life on land
Data Paper (Biosciences)
Hiking
Checklist
Europe
Fishery
Geography
Habitat
Zoology & Animal Biology
1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology
Araneae
Recreation Ecology
checklist
Tourism
recreation ecology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13142828
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Biodiversity Data Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....67e1a7791bb226b04e31ac9404446bca