Stability in the face of global decline: a 20-year study of arthropods in an oceanic archipelago
Gabor Pozsgai, Pedro Cardoso, Simone Fattorini, François Rigal, Ana M C Santos, Robert J Whittaker, Isabel R Amorim, Mário Boieiro, Luís Borda-de-Água, Ricardo Costa, Luís Carlos Crespo, Maria Teresa Ferreira, Abrão Leite, Sébastien Lhoumeau, Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte, Thomas J Matthews, Catarina Melo, Guilherme Oyarzabal, Fernando Pereira, José A Quartau, Carla Rego, Sérvio Ribeiro, Alejandra Ros-Prieto, Artur R M Serrano, Kostas A Triantis, Rosalina Gabriel, Paulo A V Borges · 2026
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Gabor Pozsgai leads a 2026 twenty-year study of arthropods in the native forests of the Azores, testing whether island insects are collapsing the way mainland reports suggest. No long-term island dataset had ever answered that question.
Thirty standard sites were sampled in three campaigns covering ground and canopy communities. Overall abundance, biomass, and species counts held stable for endemic and native species alike. About a quarter of species declined, a smaller share rose, and most showed no significant change. Seven species unseen for twenty years are presumed extinct, and some forest specialists did slip. The authors credit three decades of forest protection and argue for keeping it up.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Gabor Pozsgai, Pedro Cardoso, Simone Fattorini, François Rigal, Ana M C Santos, Robert J Whittaker, Isabel R Amorim, Mário Boieiro, Luís Borda-de-Água, Ricardo Costa, Luís Carlos Crespo, Maria Teresa Ferreira, Abrão Leite, Sébastien Lhoumeau, Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte, Thomas J Matthews, Catarina Melo, Guilherme Oyarzabal, Fernando Pereira, José A Quartau, Carla Rego, Sérvio Ribeiro, Alejandra Ros-Prieto, Artur R M Serrano, Kostas A Triantis, Rosalina Gabriel, Paulo A V Borges |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50163 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |