Assessing the impact of insect decline in islands: Exploring the diversity and community patterns of indigenous and non-indigenous arthropods in the Azores native …

S Lhoumeau, PAV Borges - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
The ongoing decline of insect populations highlight the need for long-term ecological
monitoring. As part of the “SLAM—Long Term Ecological Study of the Impacts of Climate …

Towards understanding insect species introduction and establishment: A community‐level barcoding approach using island beetles

E Jiménez‐García, C Andújar, H López… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Since Darwin put forward his opposing hypotheses to explain the successful establishment
of species in areas outside their native ranges, the preadaptation and competition …

Biological integrity of Azorean native forests is better measured in cold season

N Tsafack, S Lhoumeau, A Ros-Prieto, L Navarro… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Azorean archipelago, recognized as one of the world's biodiversity hotspots, is home to
a diverse and unique community of arthropod species, highlighting a notable degree of …

DNA Barcoding of Lepidoptera Species from the Maltese Islands: New and Additional Records, with an Insight into Endemic Diversity

A Vella, CM Mifsud, D Magro, N Vella - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
This work presents the first outcomes resulting from a DNA barcode reference library of
lepidopteran species from Malta. The library presented here was constructed from the …

Enhancing metabarcoding efficiency and ecological insights through integrated taxonomy and DNA reference barcoding: a case study on beach meiofauna

JN Macher, A Martínez, S Çakir… - Molecular Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular techniques like metabarcoding, while promising for exploring diversity of
communities, are often impeded by the lack of reference DNA sequences available for …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a Canary Islands barcode database for soil biodiversity: revealing cryptic and unrecorded mite species diversity within insular soils

I Santos-Perdomo, D Suárez, ML Moraza… - Biodiversity Data …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Soil arthropod diversity contributes to a high proportion of the total biodiversity on Earth.
However, most soil arthropods are still undescribed, hindering our understanding of soil …

Insights into Ecological & Evolutionary Processes via community metabarcoding

R Gillespie, H Bik, M Hickerson, H Krehenwinkel… - Authorea …, 2023 - techrxiv.org
The Special Issue brought together papers that highlighted the power of high-throughput
sequencing (HTS) data to address classic questions in ecology and evolution, and/or use …

[HTML][HTML] TerrANTALife 1.0 Biodiversity data checklist of known Antarctic terrestrial and freshwater life forms

LR Pertierra, G Varliero, A Barbosa… - Biodiversity Data …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Incomplete species inventories for Antarctica represent a key challenge for
comprehensive ecological research and conservation in the region. Additionally, data …

Statistical methods to identify mechanisms in studies of eco-evolutionary dynamics

JH Pantel, L Becks - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - cell.com
While the reciprocal effects of ecological and evolutionary dynamics are increasingly
recognized as an important driver for biodiversity, detection of such eco-evolutionary …