gonzález-montelongo, cristina pérez-vargas, israel
The fragmentation and degradation of primary forests are serious threats to the long-term persistence not only of the tree species they comprise, but also of many organisms inhabiting them. The Canarian laurel forest, known as monteverde, is a highly threatened endemic forest of the Macaronesian region. Lichens are considered ideal bioindicators fo...
Mirolo, Sébastien Ledent, Alice Patino Llorente, Jairo Vanderpoorten, Alain
Among land plants, bryophytes exhibit the lowest rates of endemism on oceanic islands. This pattern has primarily been interpreted in terms of intense gene flow preventing speciation from the closest continental sources, so that endemism would have to originate from geographically remote sources through chance long-distance dispersal. Here, we test...
Blanco, Ignacio Miravitlles, Marc
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Introduction: The prevalence of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) in Macaronesia (i.e., Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, and Cape Verde archipelagos) is poorly known. Our goal was to update it by selecting the most reliable available articles. Method: Literature search using MEDLINE, Embase (via Ovid), and Google Scholar, until December 2023, f...
almeida, lara colmonero-costeira, ivo ferreira da silva, maria j. veracini, cecilia vasconcelos, raquel
The green monkey Chlorocebus sabaeus, L. 1766, native to West Africa, was introduced to the Cabo Verde Archipelago in the 16th century. Historical sources suggest that, due to the importance of Cabo Verde as a commercial entrepôt in the Atlantic slave trade, establishing the precise place of origin of this introduced species is challenging. Non-inv...
moya, patricia chiva, salvador pazos, tamara barreno, eva carrasco, pedro muggia, lucia garrido-benavent, isaac
Ramalina farinacea is a widely distributed epiphytic lichen from the Macaronesian archipelagos to Mediterranean and Boreal Europe. Previous studies have indicated a specific association between R. farinacea and Trebouxia microalgae species. Here, we examined the symbiotic interactions in this lichen and its closest allies (the so-called “R. farinac...
souto, martin raposeiro, pedro miguel balibrea, ana gonçalves, vítor
This paper presents an annotated checklist of the Basidiomycota taxa (including lichenicolous fungi and the subdivision Pucciniomycotina) from the Azores archipelago and reviews the published records to account for their taxonomic status. The number of Basidiomycota species recorded in the Azores has increased considerably during the 20th century a...
cedrés-perdomo, ruymán david polaíno-martín, clara jennings, laura gabriel, rosalina
Caves represent sites of great geological and biological interest. For most taxonomic groups, caves represent one of the most challenging ecosystems due to their extreme conditions. However, these places are rich in biodiversity, and some groups, such as bryophytes, can take advantage of these conditions. Bryophytes from twelve caves on Terceira Is...
Fernández Costas, Daniel Burgaz Moreno, Ana Rosa
Cladonia glauca Flörke is reported for the first time on the island of La Palma, and C. dimorpha S. Hammer and Cladonia polydactyla (Flörke) Spreng. on the island of Tenerife, engrossing the list of species of this genus in the area, along with other species for which distribution is expanding. / Se aportan las primeras citas de Cladonia glauca Flö...
Pham, Christopher K Estevez, Sofia G Pereira, João M Herrera, Laura Rodríguez, Yasmina Domínguez-Hernández, Cristopher Villanova-Solano, Cristina Hernández-Sánchez, Cintia Díaz-Peña, Francisco J Hernández-Borges, Javier
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The Science of the total environment
The quantification of plastic debris on beaches has been extensively used as an indicator of plastic pollution in the marine environment. However, most efforts have focused on surface layers, with few investigations looking deeper into the substrate, thus underestimating total standing stocks. Such information is crucial to improve our understandin...
Puppo, Pamela De Paz, Pedro Luis Pérez Curto, Manuel Meimberg, Harald
Based on molecular and morphological evidence, a new species of Micromeria is described for Tenerife, Canary Islands. Micromeria tenensis is endemic to the massif of Teno, occurring between 100–1000 m elevation. It is characterized by having more or less pendulous branches, tomentose stems and leaves, hispid calyx, and calyx apices triangular to la...
