COORDINATOR:
Paulo A. V. Borges
TEAM:
Senior Research Scientists
Ana Moura Arroz João Pedro Barreiros Rui Elias Rosalina Gabriel Patrícia Ventura Garcia Ana Maria Ávila Simões António Onofre Costa Miranda Soares Virgílio Vieira Post-Docs: Isabel Amorim Pedro Cardoso Clara S. Gaspar José A. P. Marcelino Alison L. Neilson Carla Rego François Rigal Kostas Triantis
Associate Research Fellows:
Joaquín Hortal Alberto Jimenez-Valverde Sérvio P. Ribeiro Andrés Baselga François Guilhaumon João Moniz Hanno Schaeffer Ana Margarida Santos Jorge Lobo Lina Nunes Simone Fattorini Rudolf Scheffrahn
Ph.D. Students:
Silvia Calvo Aranda Francisco Dinis Catarina Melo Maria Teresa Ferreira Ana Picanço Grant Students: Nídia Homem Enésima Mendonça Orlando Guerreiro Annabella Borges Lúcia Silveira Luís Crespo Filomena Ferreira Carolina Couto Technicians: Fernando Pereira
Universidade dos Açores, CITAA Angra do Heroísmo, November 2010
The Azorean Biodiversity Group (ABG) is one of the four research groups of the Research Centre CITA-A (“Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias Agrárias dos Açores”). This centre is included in the University of Azores and is mainly sponsored by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the Regional Direction of Science and Technology (DRCT).
Although the Azorean Biodiversity group started officially in 2006, based on a reorganization of CITA-A, many investigators go back to 1999, when the BALA (Biodiversity of Arthropods from the Laurisilva of the Azores) project started. The number of people that is involved in the group has been steadily increasing since its creation and presently includes about 30 members and 12 research associates, in several countries.
PUBLICATIONS IN (2010) (n= 47)
INTERNATIONAL PEER REVIEWED PAPERS: 13 BOOKS: 2
BOOK CHAPTERS: 24
OTHER PEER REVIEWED PAPERS: 4
PAPERS ON PROCEEDINGS OF SYMPOSIA: 1 OTHER PUBLICATIONS ONLINE: 3
INTERNATIONAL PEER REVIEWED PAPERS
Aranda, S.C., Gabriel, R., Borges, P.A.V. & Lobo, J.M. (2010). Assessing the completeness of bryophyte inventories: an oceanic island as a case study (Azores: Terceira). Biodiversity and Conservation, 19: 2469-2484.
Borges, P.A.V., Gabriel, R., Arroz, A., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Silva, L., Mendonça, E. Martins, A.F., Reis, F. & Cardoso, P. (2010). The Azorean Biodiversity Portal: an internet database for regional biodiversity outreach. Systematics and Biodiversity, 8: 423-434.
Bosmans, R., Cardoso, P. & Crespo, L.C. (2010) A review of the Linyphiid spiders of Portugal, with the description of six new species (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Zootaxa, 2473: 1–67.
Cardoso, P., Arnedo, M., Triantis, K.A., Borges, P.A.V. (2010). Drivers of diversity in Macaronesian spiders and the role of species extinctions. Journal of Biogeography, 37: 1034-1046.
Cardoso, P. & Morano, E. (2010). The Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa, 2495: 1-52.
Crespo, L.C. & Mendes, S. (2010). Trachyzelotes minutus, a new zelotine ground spider (Araneae: Gnaphosidae: Zavattaricinae) species from southern Portugal. Journal of Arachnology, 38: 588-591.
Hrusková-Martisová, M., Pekár, S. & Cardoso, P. (2010). Natural history of the Iberian solifuge Gluvia dorsalis (Solifuges, Daesiidae). Journal of Arachnology, 38: 466-474.
Martín, J.L., Cardoso, P., Arechavaleta, M., Borges, P.A.V, Faria, B.F., Abreu, C., Aguiar, A.F., Carvalho, J.A., Costa, A.C., Cunha, R.T., Gabriel, R., Jardim, R., Lobo, C., Martins, A.M.F., Oliveira, P., Rodrigues, P., Silva, L., Teixeira, D., Amorim, I.R., Fernandes, F., Homem, N., Martins, B., Martins, M. & Mendonça, E. (2010). Using taxonomically unbiased criteria to prioritize resource allocation for oceanic island species conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation, 19: 1659-1682.
Gaspar, C., Gaston, K.J. & Borges, P.A.V. (2010). Arthropods as surrogates of diversity at different spatial scales. Biological Conservation, 143: 1287–1294. Hortal, J., Borges, P.A.V., Jiménez-Valverde, A., Azevedo, E.B. & Silva, L. (2010).
Assessing the areas under risk of invasion within islands through potential distribution modelling: the case of Pittosporum undulatum in São Miguel, Azores. Journal for Nature Conservation, 18: 247-257.
Santos, A.M.C., Jones, O.R., Quicke, D. & Hortal, J. (2010). Assessing the reliability of biodiversity databases: identifying evenly inventoried island parasitoid faunas (Hymenoptera: Braconidae and Ichneumonoidae) wordwide. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 3: 72–82.
Santos, A.M.C., Whittaker, R.J., Triantis, K.A., Borges, P.A.V., Jones, O.R., Quicke, D. & Hortal, J. (2010). Are species-area relationships from entire archipelagos congruent with those of their constituent islands? Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19: 527-540.
Triantis, K.A., Borges, P.A.V., Ladle, R.J., Hortal, J., Cardoso, P., Gaspar, C., Dinis, F., Mendonça, E., Silveira, L.M.A., Gabriel, R., Melo, C., Santos,
A.M.C., Amorim, I.R., Ribeiro, S.P., Serrano, A.R.M., Quartau, J.A. & Whittaker, R.J. (2010). Extinction debt on oceanic islands. Ecography, 33: 285-294.
OTHER PEER REVIEWED PAPERS
Barreiros, J.P., Elias, R.B., Lourenço, J., Dias, E. & Borges, P.A.V. (2010) First record of Tarentola mauritanica (Linnaeus, 1758) (Reptilia; Gekkonidae) in the Azores. Arquipélago Life and Marine Sciences, 27: 73-75.
Cardoso, P. & Almeida, A.P.G. (2010). Envenenamento por aranhas em Portugal. Verdade ou Mito? Acta Médica Portuguesa, 23: 33-38.
Santos, A.M.C., Borges, P.A.V., Rodrigues, A.C. & Lopes, D.J.H. (2010). Lista de espécies de artrópodes associados a diferentes culturas frutícolas da ilha Terceira (Açores, Portugal). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa (S.E.A), 46: 437-447.
Serrano, A.R.M. & Borges, P.A.V. (2010). The cave-adapted arthropod fauna from Madeira archipelago. ArquipélagoLife and Marine Sciences, 27: 1-7.
BOOKS
Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (Eds.) (2010). A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. Princípia, Oieiras, 432 pp.
Pereira, M.J., Vieira, V. & Furtado, D. (eds) (2010). O Jardim Romântico da Universidade dos Açores. Universidade dos Açores, Ponta Delgada, 104 pp
BOOK CHAPTERS
Aguiar, A.MF., Achterberg, K.v., Askew, R.R., Zwakhals, K., Santos, A.MC. & Borges, P.A.V. (2010). Hymenoptera (other families). In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I.,
Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 244-246, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Aptroot, A., Rodrigues, A.F., Schumm, F., Câmara, S. & Gabriel, R. (2010) List of lichens and lichenicolous fungi (Fungi). In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 59-79, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Borges, P.A.V. (2010). List of Earthworms (Annelida). In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 153-155, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Borges, P.A.V. (2010). Opiliones. In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 198, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp. Borges, P.A.V. (2010). Branchiopoda, Ostracoda, Malacostraca, Maxillopoda. In:
Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 205-208, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Borges, P.A.V. (2010). Symphyla & Pauropoda. In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 208, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Borges, P.A.V. (2010). Odonata & Ephemeroptera. In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 212, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Borges, P.A.V., Borges, A., Ferreira, M.T., Guerreiro, O., Myles, T. & Scheffrahn, R. (2010). Isoptera. In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 213, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Borges, P.A.V. (2010). Strepsiptera, Trichoptera, Siphonaptera. In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 232-233, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Borges, P. A. V., Azevedo, E.B., Borba, A., Dinis, F.O., Gabriel, R. & Silva, E. (2010). Ilhas Oceânicas. In: H.M. Pereira, T. Domingos & L. Vicente (Eds.), Portugal Millenium Ecosystem Assessment. pp. 461-508. Escolar Editora, Lisboa.
Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P., Vieira, V., Mendonça, E. & Boeiro, M. (2010). Description of the Terrestrial and marine biodiversity of the Azores. In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 9-33, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Borges, P.A.V., Vieira, V., Amorim, I.R., Bicudo, N., Fritzén, N., Gaspar, C., Heleno, R., Hortal, J., Lissner, J., Logunov, D., Machado, A., Marcelino, J., Meijer, S.S., Melo, C., Mendonça, E.P., Moniz, J., Pereira, F., Santos, A.M., Simões, A.M., Torrão, E. (2010). List of arthropods (Arthropoda). In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 179-246, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Melo, I., Parente, M., Santos, R.S., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V.. (2010). List of problematic species. In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. &
Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 347-350, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Cardoso, P. & Pinto, H. (2010). Acari (Astigmata; Oribatida; Prostigmata; Mesostigmata). In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 198-201, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Cardoso, P., Wunderlich, J. & Borges, P.A.V. (2010). Araneae. In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 202-205, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Gabriel, R., Sjögren, E., Schumacker, R., Sérgio, C., Aranda, S.C., Claro, D., Homem, N. & Martins, B. (2010). List of bryophytes (Anthocerotophyta, Marchantiophyta, Bryophyta). In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine fungi, flora and fauna from the Azores. pp. 99-115, Principia, Lisboa, 432 pp.
Oromí, P., Serrano, A.R.M. & Borges, P.A.V. (2010). Coleoptera (Coordination). In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 222-232, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Pereira, M.J., Vieira, V., Furtado, D., Gonçalves, V. & Fonseca, M.A. & (2010). Flora e Fauna no Jardim. In: Pereira, M.J., Vieira, V. & Furtado, D. (eds). O Jardim Romântico da Universidade dos Açores. pp. 19-102, Universidade dos Açores, Ponta Delgada, 104 pp.
Silva, L., Moura. M., Schaefer, H., Rumsey, F. & Dias, E.F. (2010) List of vascular plants (Tracheobionta). In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 117-146, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Soares, A.O. (2010). Coleoptera (Coccinellidae). In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 225, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Vieira, V. (2010). Diptera (Coordination). In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 233-240, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Vieira, V., Diaz, S. & Báez, M. (2010). Diptera (other families). In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 233-240 Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Vieira, V. & Karsholt, O. (2010). Lepidoptera. In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (eds.) A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. pp. 241-243, Princípia, Oeiras, 432 pp.
Vieira, V. (2010). Insectos. In: Pereira, M.J., Vieira, V. & Furtado, D. (eds.). O Jardim Romântico da Universidade dos Açores. pp 77-84, Universidade dos Açores, Ponta Delgada, 104 pp.
PAPERS ON PROCEEDINGS OF SYMPOSIA
Neilson, A.L., Gabriel, R., Arroz, A.M., & Mendonça, E. (2010). Eating, jigging or watching? Ocean heritage and sustainable development. In: Rogério Amoêda, Sérgio Lira & Cristina Pinheiro (Eds.). Heritage 2010, Heritage and Sustainable Development, Vol 1. pp. 581-587, Proceedings of the 2nd International
Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development, Èvora, Portugal, 22-26 June. Green Lines Institute: Barcelos, Portugal.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS ONLINE
Borges, P.A.V. (2010). Fauna cavernícola.h Available online at: http://siaram.azores.gov.pt
Borges, P.A.V. (2010). Artrópodes. Available online at: http://siaram.azores.gov.pt Gabriel, R. (2010). Briófitos. Available online at: http://siaram.azores.gov.pt
