Description
The data we present consists in an inventory of arthropods collected in three areas of a native forest fragment at Terra-Brava protected area (Terceira, Azores, Portugal): (i) in the edge of the forest, closer to pasturelands; (ii) in the deepest and pristine part of the native fragment (more than 500 m from edge); (iii) and in an intermediate area (150 from edge), in order to test the edge effect on Azorean arthropod community. The study was carried out between June 2014 and December 2015, in Terceira Island (Azores). A total of nine passive flight interception SLAM traps were deployed, during 18 consecutive months, collecting monthly the arthropods belonging to Arachnida, Diplopoda, Chilopoda and Insecta Classes. This publication provides new information about Azorean arthropods communities across gradients of temporal and edge effect variation
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 158 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.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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How to cite
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Borges P A V, Lamelas-López L (2023): Monthly monitoring of Azorean forest arthropods testing for edge effects (Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal). v1.5. Universidade dos Açores. Dataset/Samplingevent. http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=slam_edge&v=1.5
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 16ff3c9e-8b75-49f1-94f2-f77a36c27aff. Universidade dos Açores publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Portugal.
Keywords
Samplingevent
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Terra-Brava Natural Forest Reserve at Terceira Island, in the Azores archipelago (Portugal).
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [38.733, -27.222], North East [38.756, -27.184] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The following Arthropod Classes and Orders are covered: Arachnida: Araneae; Opiliones; Pseudoscorpiones Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha Diplopoda: Julida; Haplobainosomatidae Insecta: Archaeognatha; Blattodea; Coleoptera; Hemiptera; Neuroptera; Orthoptera; Psocodea; Thysanoptera; Trichoptera.
| Phylum | Arthropoda (Arthropods) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2014-06-11 / 2015-12-14 |
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Project Data
The data we present consists in an inventory of arthropods collected in three areas of a native forest fragment at Terra-Brava protected area (Terceira, Azores, Portugal): (i) in the edge of the forest, closer to pasturelands; (ii) in the deepest and pristine part of the native fragment (more than 500 m from edge); (iii) and in an intermediate area (150 from edge), in order to test the edge effect on Azorean arthropod community. The study was carried out between June 2014 and December 2015, in Terceira Island (Azores). A total of nine passive flight interception SLAM traps were deployed, during 18 consecutive months, collecting monthly the arthropods belonging to Arachnida, Diplopoda, Chilopoda and Insecta Classes. This publication provides new information about Azorean arthropods communities across gradients of temporal and edge effect variation
| Title | Monthly monitoring of Azorean forest arthropods testing for edge effects (Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal) |
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| Identifier | AZORESBIOPORTAL |
| Funding | A large number of students financed by the EU Programs ERASMUS and EURODYSSÉE sorted the samples prior to species assignment This manuscript was also partly financed by Portuguese FCT-NETBIOME –ISLANDBIODIV grant 0003/2011 (between 2012 and 2015), Portuguese National Funds, through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, within the project UID/BIA/00329/2013-2020, and AZORESBIOPORTAL –PORBIOTA (ACORES-01-0145-FEDER-000072) (2019). The Natural Park of Terceira provided the necessary authorization for sampling. The database management and Open Access was funded by the project “MACRISK-Traitbased prediction of extinction risk and invasiveness for Northern Macaronesian arthropods” Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) - PTDC/BIA-CBI/0625/2021 (2022-2024). |
| Study Area Description | The study area comprises a fragment of native forest “Terra Brava” located in the interior of Terceira island (coordinates: 38° 43' 17"; -27° 13' 14"), in the Azores archipelago. The native forest fragment is covered by native vegetation, mainly by Juniperus brevifolia, Erica azorica, Laurus azorica and Ilex azorica, between others. In general, the climate of the archipelago is temperate oceanic, with frequent and abundant precipitations, high degree of relative humidity and persistent winds, mainly during the winter and autumn seasons |
| Design Description | The data collection was performed using Passive flight interception SLAM traps (Sea, Land and Air Malaise trap). Trap size is of approximately 110 x 110 x 110 cm. The trap functioning consists on that the intercepted arthropods crawl up the mesh and then fall inside the sampling recipient, which is filled with propylene glycol (pure 1,2-PROPANODIOL) (Borges et al., 2017). This protocol is adequate to capture flying and non-flying arthropod species (Borges et al., 2017). This sampling protocol was recently used to study diversity and abundance variations in the communities of arthropod on Azorean native areas (Matthews et al., 2019, Borges et al., 2020). A total of nine SLAM traps were deployed in a fragment of native forest of Terceira Island, three of which on the edge of the forest, three on intermediate depth and three on the most pristine part of the forest. The traps samples were collected each month, during 18 consecutive months (from July 2014 to December 2015). |
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Sampling Methods
A total of nine passive flight interception SLAM traps were used to sample monthly the three replicates of three areas of a native forest fragment of Terceira Island, (i) the edge area, closer to pasturelands; (ii) the most pristine area, located in the interior of the forest fragment (150 from edge), (iii) and an intermediate area (150 from edge). Trap size is of approximately 110 x 110 x 110 cm. The trap functioning consists on that the intercepted arthropods crawl up the mesh and then fall inside the sampling recipient, which is filled with propylene glycol (pure 1,2-PROPANODIOL) (Borges et al., 2017). The traps samples were collected each month, during 18 consecutive months (from June 2014 to December 2015).
| Study Extent | The study was conducted three areas of a native forest fragment, in the edge of the forest, closer to pasturelands, in the deepest and pristine part of the native fragment (more than 500 m from edge); and in an intermediate area (150 from edge), in order to test the edge effect on Azorean arthropod community. The native forest fragment is located inland, and is covered by native vegetation, mainly by Juniperus brevifolia, Erica azorica, Laurus azorica and Ilex azorica, between others |
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| Quality Control | All sorted specimens were identified by a taxonomical expert in laboratory |
Method step description:
- This inventory of Arthropods includes records collected monthly between June 2014 and December 2015, in nine plots of a native forest fragment of Terceira island, in the Azores archipelago, using SLAM traps. The collected data has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardised format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table (events) contains 158 records and one data table extension also exists (occurrence), with 2779 records. The extension supplies extra information about the core record
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Entomoteca Dalberto Teixeira Pombo (DTP) |
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| Collection Identifier | DTP |
| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol |
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Bibliographic Citations
- Borges, P.A.V., Pimentel, R., Carvalho, R., Nunes, R., Wallon, S. & Ros Prieto, A. (2017). Seasonal dynamics of arthropods in the humid native forests of Terceira Island (Azores). Arquipelago Life and Marine Sciences, 34: 105-122
- Borges, P.A.V., Rigal, F., Ros-Prieto, A., & Cardoso, P. (2020). Increase of insular exotic arthropod diversity is a fundamental dimension of the current biodiversity crisis. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 13: 508-518. 10.1111/icad.12431
- Matthews, T., Sadler, J.P., Carvalho, R., Nunes, R. & Borges, P.A.V. (2019). Differential turnover rates and temporal beta-diversity patterns of native and non-native arthropod species in a fragmented native forest landscape. Ecography, 42: 45–54. 10.1111/ecog.03812
- Costa, R. & Borges, P.A.V. (2021). SLAM Project - Long term ecological study of the impacts of climate change in the natural forest of Azores: I - the spiders from native forests of Terceira and Pico Islands (2012-2019). Biodiversity Data Journal, 9: e69924. 10.3897/BDJ.9.e69924
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 16ff3c9e-8b75-49f1-94f2-f77a36c27aff |
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| http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=slam_edge |