Description
The present work provides an inventory of the arthropods recorded in two distinct coastal grasslands ecosystems: São Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago), and Setúbal district on Portugal mainland (Sesimbra and Sines regions). Thirthy-one plots were selected (13 on São Miguel island, 13 across Sesimbra region, and 6 on Sines region). The plots were visited four times, between spring and summer 2022. A total of 13,515 arthropod specimens were collected (Azores = 7,861; Mainland = 5,654), belonging to 534 species and morphospecies. In the Azores, 210 species and morphospecies belonging to three classes were collected: Arachnida (22), Diplopoda (1), and Insecta (187). On the mainland a total of 391 species and morphospecies were collected, belonging to two classes: Arachnida (55), and Insecta (336). In total, 67 species were common between the two studied areas.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 121 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Calado H R M G, Borges P A V, Heleno R, Soares A O (2024). Arthropod communities of island vs. mainland coastal grasslands: São Miguel Island (Azores) and Mainland Portugal. Version 1.1. Universidade dos Açores. Samplingevent dataset. http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=matela_protest&v=1.1
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Universidade dos Açores. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: e89bf514-a8bd-4659-adda-19d991dd780b. Universidade dos Açores publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Portugal.
Keywords
Samplingevent; Arthropods; Azores; mainland Portugal; coastal grasslands; sweeping netting.; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
São Miguel Island and Portugal coastal area at Setubal Peninsula
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [37.614, -26.06], North East [38.959, -8.306] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Phylum Arthropoda: Classe Arachnida: Order Araneae, Order Opiliones; Classe Diplopoda: Order Julida; Classe Insecta: Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Mantodea, Neuroptera, Orthoptera, Phasmida, Psocodea, Thysanoptera
| Phylum | Arthropoda (Arthropods) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2022-03-03 / 2022-07-28 |
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Project Data
The present work provides an inventory of the arthropods recorded in two distinct coastal grasslands ecosystems: São Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago), and Setúbal district on Portugal mainland (Sesimbra and Sines regions). Thirthy-one plots were selected (13 on São Miguel island, 13 across Sesimbra region, and 6 on Sines region).
| Title | Phenotypic Plasticity of Pest and Biological Control Agents: Contrasting Mainland and Insular Coastal Ecosystems |
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| Identifier | COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS |
| Funding | HRMGC was funded by the Regional FRCT Ph.D. Grant M3.1.a/F/012/2021: Phenotypic Plasticity of Pest and Biological Control Agents: Contrasting Mainland and Insular Coastal Ecosystems. AOS and PAVB were also funded by the projects Pluriannual Funding FCT-UIDB/00329/2020-2024 - DOI 10.54499/UIDB/00329/2020 (Thematic Line 1 – integrated ecological assessment of environmental change on biodiversity), Azores DRCT Pluriannual Funding (M1.1.A/FUNC.UI&D/010/2021-2024) and PAVB by the project AZORESBIOPORTAL – PORBIOTA (ACORES-01-0145-FEDER-000072. |
| Study Area Description | The study was conducted on the coastal grasslands of the São Miguel Inland (Azores Archipelago – North Atlantic) and Portugal Mainland (Setúbal district – Sesimbra and Sines regions). The Azores are of volcanic origin and have a mild, oceanic climate with relatively stable temperatures and high humidity throughout the year, occasional rainfall, and the possibility of fog and persistent winds, mainly during winter and autumn. São Miguel is situated in the oriental islands group (37.7804, -25.4970) and is the largest archipelago island with 746.8 km² and a maximum altitude above sea level of 1103 meters. Mainland Portugal, on the other hand, is located in southwestern Europe, and is confined between parallels 37°N and 42°N and within the relatively narrow meridional band that develops between 6.5°W and 9.5°W.The Setúbal district is located south of Lisbon, between parallels 37°N and 39°N. Sesimbra is c. 30 km south of Lisbon and have an area of 194,98 km² whereas Sines is located c. 150 km south of Lisbon and have an area of 195,47 km². |
| Design Description | For this study, thirty-one plots were visited in coastal grasslands. Plots were chosen in both regions to have a similar general substrate (rocky), latitude, and elevation. For the arthropod capture, a sweeping net was used. All selected plots were visited four times between spring and summer 2022. All material captured was preserved in flasks with ethyl alcohol (99.8%) and sent to the lab for further identification. |
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Sampling Methods
Sweeping nets were used to collect arthropods (which included spiders, true bugs, ants, beetles, and other insects) on both coastal grasslands (in the Azores and on Portugal's mainland). In each plot, a random sweeping section was carried out, using a nylon mosquito net of 40 cm in diameter, 50 cm in length, and 0.25 mm mesh. For each section, an effort of 15 minutes was applied (3 minutes sweeping and 12 minutes for processing and labelling the collected material). All collected specimens were placed in flasks with 99,8% ethyl alcohol for later sorting and identification. In the laboratory, all arthropod specimens were sorted into different morphospecies and stored in 2ml Eppendorf tubes with 99,8% ethyl alcohol. For each morphospecies three exemplars were selected and photographed, using a LEICA S9i stereo microscope with LAS X 5.2.1.27831, to create a photographic database to facilitate taxonomic identification. The Senior author (Paulo A.V. Borges) identified all morphospecies of the Azorean samples, to species level, when possible. All species collected in the Azores were categorized into three colonization categories following the last checklist of Azorean arthropods (Borges et al., 2022): endemic, native non-endemic, and introduced. In some cases, the colonization status was undetermined. A database for both events and occurrences were created using the Darwin Core criteria.
| Study Extent | For sampling, an area of 2500 m2 (0.25 ha) was defined for each plot selected. The thirteen plots on São Miguel Island and the eighteen on Portugal's mainland, distributed across the Setúbal district (Sesimbra – 12; Sines – 6) were visited for four times, between spring and summer of 2024. A total of 121 samples were collected (50 in São Miguel and 71 on Portugal’s mainland). |
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| Quality Control | After collection, specimens were stored in ethyl alcohol (99,8%). All specimens, adults and larvae, were sorted in a laboratory by Hugo Renato M. G. Calado who organized the collection in a system of morphospecies. |
Method step description:
- We used standard checklists for taxonomic nomenclature (Borges et al. 2022)
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Renato_PhD (PHEPLA) |
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| Collection Identifier | PHEPLA |
| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol |
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Bibliographic Citations
- Borges, P.A.V., Lamelas-Lopez, L., Andrade, R., Lhoumeau, S., Vieira, V., Soares, A.O., Borges, I., Boieiro, M., Cardoso, P., Crespo, L.C.F., Karsholt, O., Schülke, M., Serrano, A.R.M., Quartau, J.A. & Assing, V. (2022). An updated checklist of Azorean arthropods (Arthropoda). Biodiversity Data Journal, 10: e97682 10.3897/BDJ.10.e97682
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | e89bf514-a8bd-4659-adda-19d991dd780b |
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| http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=matela_protest |