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Macaronesia as a Fruitful Arena for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology by Florencio, Margarita, Patiño, Jairo, Nogué, Sandra, Traveset, Anna, Borges, Paulo, Schaefer, Hanno, Amorim, Isabel R., Arnedo, Miquel A., Ávila, Sérgio, Cardoso, Pedro, Nascimento, Lea, Fernández-Palacios, José María, Gabriel, Sofia I., Freire Gil, Artur José, Gonçalves, Vitor, Haroun, Ricardo J., Illera, Juan Carlos, López-Darias, Marta, Martínez, Alejandro, M. Martins, Gustavo, Neto, Ana, Nogales, Manuel, Oromí, Pedro, Rando, Juan Carlos, Raposeiro, Pedro M., Rigal, François, Romeiras, Maria M., Silva, Luís, Valido, Alfredo, Vanderpoorten, Alain, Vasconcelos, Raquel, Santos, Ana M. C.

“…Research in Macaronesia has led to substantial advances in ecology, evolution and conservation biology. We review the scientific developments achieved in this…”
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Biodiversity patterns in a macroinvertebrate community of a temporary pond network by Florencio, Margarita, Díaz‐Paniagua, Carmen, Gómez‐Rodríguez, Carola, Serrano, Laura, Tsubaki, Yoshitaka, Sahlen, Goran

“…Macroinvertebrate assemblages of temporary ponds are ideal model systems to explore biodiversity patterns and metacommunity ecology. In addition, the study of…”
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The colonisation of exotic species does not have to trigger faunal homogenisation: lessons from the assembly patterns of arthropods on oceanic islands by Florencio, Margarita, Lobo, Jorge M, Cardoso, Pedro, Almeida-Neto, Mário, Borges, Paulo A V

“…Human-caused disturbances can lead to the extinction of indigenous (endemic and native) species, while facilitating and increasing the colonisation of exotic…”
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Biodiversity Patterns of Macroinvertebrate Assemblages in Natural and Artificial Lentic Waters on an Oceanic Island by Lamelas López, Lucas, Borges, Paulo, Serrano, Laura, Gonçalves, Vitor, Florencio, Margarita

“…The Azorean islands have been historically affected by human activities, mainly due to the combined effects of habitat degradation and fragmentation, and the…”
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Community structure of woody plants on islands along a bioclimatic gradient by Borges, Paulo A.V., Cardoso, Pedro, Fattorini, Simone, Rigal, François, Matthews, Thomas J., Di Biase, Letizia, Amorim, Isabel R., Florencio, Margarita, Borda-de-Água, Luis, Rego, Carla, Pereira, Fernando, Nunes, Rui, Carvalho, Rui, Ferreira, Maria Teresa, López, Heriberto, Pérez Delgado, Antonio J., Otto, Rüdiger, Fernández Lugo, Silvia, De Nascimento, Lea, Caujapé-Castells, Juli, Casquet, Juliane, Danflous, Samuel, Fournel, Jacques, Sadeyen, Anne-Marie, Elias, Rui B., Fernández-Palacios, José María, Oromí, Pedro, Thébaud, Christophe, Strasberg, Dominique, Emerson, Brent C.

“…Understanding patterns of community structure and the causes for their variation can be furthered by comparative biogeographic analyses of island biotas. We…”
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Larval development and growth ratios of Odonata of the Azores by Lamelas-López, Lucas, Florencio, Margarita, Borges, Paulo A. V., Cordero-Rivera, Adolfo

“…To fully understand odonate life cycles, it is vital to analyse the patterns of larval growth, which are tightly associated with variations in environmental…”
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Relationships between hydroperiod length, and seasonal and spatial patterns of beta-diversity of the microcrustacean assemblages in Mediterranean ponds by Florencio, Margarita, Díaz-Paniagua, Carmen, Serrano, Laura

“…Temporary ponds are unpredictable habitats that exhibit inundation periods of variable duration (hydroperiods). We hypothesised that changes in microcrustacean…”
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Opposite and synergistic physiological responses to water acidity and predator cues in spadefoot toad tadpoles by Florencio, Margarita, Burraco, Pablo, Rendón, Miguel Ángel, Díaz-Paniagua, Carmen, Gomez-Mestre, Ivan

“…Organisms are exposed to multiple environmental factors simultaneously to which they often respond behaviorally, morphologically and/or physiologically…”
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Biases in global effects of exotic species on local invertebrates: a systematic review by Florencio, Margarita, Lobo, Jorge M., Bini, Luis Mauricio

“…Historical gaps and biases in the literature may have influenced the current knowledge of the impacts of invaders on global biodiversity. We performed a…”
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Tracking a killer shrimp: Dikerogammarus villosus invasion dynamics across Europe by Soto, Ismael, Cuthbert, Ross N., Ahmed, Danish A., Kouba, Antonín, Domisch, Sami, Marquez, Jaime R. G., Beidas, Ayah, Amatulli, Giuseppe, Kiesel, Jens, Shen, Longzhu Q., Florencio, Margarita, Lima, Herlander, Briski, Elizabeta, Altermatt, Florian, Archambaud-Suard, Gaït, Borza, Peter, Csabai, Zoltan, Datry, Thibault, Floury, Mathieu, Forcellini, Maxence, Fruget, Jean-François, Leitner, Patrick, Lizée, Marie-Hélène, Maire, Anthony, Ricciardi, Anthony, Schäfer, Ralf B., Stubbington, Rachel, Van der Lee, Gea H., Várbíró, Gábor, Verdonschot, Ralf C. M., Haase, Peter, Haubrock, Phillip J.

“…Aim Invasive alien species are a growing problem worldwide due to their ecological, economic and human health impacts. The “killer shrimp” Dikerogammarus…”
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Spatio-temporal nested patterns in macroinvertebrate assemblages across a pond network with a wide hydroperiod range by Florencio, Margarita, Díaz-Paniagua, Carmen, Serrano, Laura, Bilton, David T.

“…Nestedness has been widely used to measure the structure of biological communities and occurs when species-poor sites contain subsets of species-rich ones…”
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Arthropod assemblage homogenization in oceanic islands: the role of indigenous and exotic species under landscape disturbance by Florencio, Margarita, Cardoso, Pedro, Lobo, Jorge M, Azevedo, Eduardo Brito, Borges, Paulo A.V, Jeschke, Jonathan

“…AIMS: Human landscape disturbance can drive the degradation of natural environments, thereby contributing to indigenous (endemic and native non‐endemic)…”
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Inter- and intra-annual variations of macroinvertebrate assemblages are related to the hydroperiod in Mediterranean temporary ponds by Florencio, Margarita, Serrano, Laura, Gómez-Rodríguez, Carola, Millán, Andrés, Díaz-Paniagua, Carmen

“…Macroinvertebrate assemblages of 22 temporary ponds with different hydroperiod were sampled monthly during a dry year (2005-2006) and a wet year (2006-2007)…”
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Competitive exclusion and habitat segregation in seasonal macroinvertebrate assemblages in temporary ponds by Florencio, Margarita, Gómez-Rodríguez, Carola, Serrano, Laura, Díaz-Paniagua, Carmen

“…Seasonal variation in macroinvertebrate assemblages usually is attributed to environmental variability, but this relationship is unclear in temporary ponds…”
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Sampling macroinvertebrates in a temporary pond: comparing the suitability of two techniques to detect richness, spatial segregation and diel activity by Florencio, Margarita, Díaz-Paniagua, Carmen, Gomez-Mestre, Ivan, Serrano, Laura

“…Recent and increasing interest in temporary ponds as biodiversity reservoirs fosters our need to test sampling techniques for characterising their biological…”
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Mediterranean temporary ponds as amphibian breeding habitats: the importance of preserving pond networks by Gómez-Rodríguez, Carola, Díaz-Paniagua, Carmen, Serrano, Laura, Florencio, Margarita, Portheault, Alexandre

“…We describe the spatial and temporal variation in the main characteristics of amphibian breeding habitats in Doñana National Park (south of Spain), during two…”
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The role of plant fidelity and land-use changes on island exotic and indigenous canopy spiders at local and regional scales by Florencio, Margarita, Rigal, François, Borges, Paulo A. V., Cardoso, Pedro, Santos, Ana M. C., Lobo, Jorge M.

“…Understanding the processes that lead to successful invasions is essential for the management of exotic species. We aimed to assess the comparative relevance…”
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Defining the importance of landscape metrics for large branchiopod biodiversity and conservation: the case of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands by Sala, Jordi, Gascón, Stéphanie, Cunillera-Montcusí, David, Alonso, Miguel, Amat, Francisco, Cancela da Fonseca, Luís, Cristo, Margarida, Florencio, Margarita, García-de-Lomas, Juan, Machado, Margarida, Miracle, Maria Rosa, Miró, Alexandre, Pérez-Bote, José Luis, Pretus, Joan Lluís, Prunier, Florent, Ripoll, Javier, Rueda, Juan, Sahuquillo, María, Serrano, Laura, Ventura, Marc, Verdiell-Cubedo, David, Boix, Dani

“…The deficiency in the distributional data of invertebrate taxa is one of the major impediments acting on the bias towards the low awareness of its conservation…”
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Rainfall stochasticity controls the distribution of invasive crayfish and its impact on amphibian guilds in Mediterranean temporary waters by Díaz-Paniagua, Carmen, Keller, Claudia, Florencio, Margarita, Andreu, Ana C., Portheault, Alexandre, Gómez-Rodríguez, Carola, Gomez-Mestre, Ivan

“…Invasive crayfish have severely impacted invaded aquatic ecosystems worldwide. We studied temporal and spatial variation in the range expansion of the red…”
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Inter-annual variability in amphibian assemblages: implications for diversity assessment and conservation by Gómez-Rodríguez, Carola, Díaz-Paniagua, Carmen, Bustamante, Javier, Portheault, Alexandre, Florencio, Margarita

“…1.Diversity assessments and conservation management should take into account the dynamic nature of populations and communities, particularly when they are…”
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