New records and detailed distribution and abundance of selected arthropod species collected between 1999 and 2011 in Azorean native forests.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In this contribution we present detailed distribution and abundance data for arthropod species identified during the BALA - Biodiversity of Arthropods from the Laurisilva of the Azores (1999-2004) and BALA2 projects (2010-2011) from 18 native forest fragments in seven of the nine Azorean islands (all excluding Graciosa and Corvo islands, which have no native forest left).

New information

Of the total 286 species identified, 81% were captured between 1999 and 2000, a period during which only 39% of all the samples were collected. On average, arthropod richness for each island increased by 10% during the time frame of these projects. The classes Arachnida, Chilopoda and Diplopoda represent the most remarkable cases of new is

SUBMITTER: Borges PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5267528 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature