A5101859003- Plant and animal studies
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
- Hemiptera Insect Studies
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution
- Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies
- Animal and Plant Science Education
Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología
2017-2024
Universidad de La Laguna
2019-2024
Finnish Museum of Natural History
2022
University of Helsinki
2022
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2022
Abstract Metabarcoding of Metazoa using mitochondrial genes may be confounded by both the accumulation PCR and sequencing artefacts co‐amplification nuclear pseudogenes (NUMTs). The application read abundance thresholds denoising methods is efficient in reducing noise accompanying authentic amplicon sequence variants (ASVs). However, these procedures do not fully account for complex nature concomitant sequences highly variable DNA contribution specimens a metabarcoding sample. We propose, as...
Using a series of standardized sampling plots within forest ecosystems in remote oceanic islands, we reveal fundamental differences between the structuring aboveground and belowground arthropod biodiversity that are likely due to large-scale species introductions by humans. Species beetle spider were sampled almost exclusively from single while soil-dwelling Collembola exhibited more than tenfold higher sharing among islands. Comparison mitochondrial metagenomic data database 80 000 barcode...
Abstract Aim To assess whether the reduced nutritional resources available for pollinators due to plant community simplification along an elevational plant‐diversity gradient changes pollinator niche breadth and richness. Additionally, we evaluated how body size proboscis length of shifted gradient, these were related breadth. Location An (2,350–3,520 m a.s.l.) on oceanic high‐mountain strato‐volcano El Teide (Tenerife, Canary Islands). Taxon Flowering species. Methods We compared...
Abstract Aim Specialisation to the soil environment is expected constrain spatial scale of diversification within animal lineages. In this context, flightless arthropod lineages, adapted environments, but with broad geographical ranges, represent something an anomaly. Here we investigate process one such ‘anomalous’ specialist, eyeless and beetle species strongly endogean distributed across several oceanic islands. Location Canary Islands. Taxon Geomitopsis franzi Coiffait, 1978 (Coleoptera,...
Dispersal limitation has been recurrently suggested to shape both macroecological patterns and microevolutionary processes within invertebrates. However, because of potential interactions among biological, environmental, temporal, spatial variables, causal links flight-related traits, diversification community assembly remain elusive. Integrating genetic variation species across whole insect assemblages, a simplified environmental framework, can be used reduce the impact these potentially...
Most of our understanding island diversity comes from the study aboveground systems, while patterns and processes diversification community assembly for belowground biotas remain poorly understood. Here, we take advantage a relatively young dynamic oceanic to advance ecoevolutionary driving within soil mesofauna. Using whole organism DNA (wocDNA) metabarcoding recently developed metaMATE pipeline, have generated spatially explicit reliable haplotype-level sequence data mesofaunal assemblages...
Abstract Metabarcoding of Metazoa using mitochondrial genes may be confounded by both the accumulation PCR and sequencing artefacts co-amplification nuclear pseudogenes (NUMTs). The application read abundance thresholds denoising methods is efficient in reducing noise accompanying authentic amplicon sequence variants (ASVs). However, these procedures do not fully account for complex nature concomitant sequences highly variable DNA contribution individuals a metabarcoding sample. We propose,...
Abstract Aim Habitat diversity has been linked to the and structure of island communities, however, little is known about patterns processes within habitats. Here we aim determine contributions habitat type inferred dispersal frequency differences in taxonomic between assemblages same habitat. Location The Macaronesian archipelagos (Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands Cabo Verde). Taxon Spiders (Araneae). Methods We established forest dry sites (each with five plots) on two islands per...
Abstract Biological invasions are one of the main causes biodiversity loss, especially on oceanic islands. Ants among most damaging pests in world. After systematic sampling more than 1,000 localities Canary Islands, six new exotic ant species reported for first time: Pheidole bilimeki (Myrmicinae), navigans Strumigenys membranifera Brachymyrmex cordemoyi (Formicinae) , Tapinoma darioi (Dolichoderinae) and Technomyrmex pallipes (Dolichoderinae). Moreover, another two recently have been...
Most of our understanding island diversity comes from the study aboveground systems, while patterns and processes diversification community assembly for belowground biotas remain poorly understood. Here we take advantage a relatively young dynamic oceanic to advance eco-evolutionary driving within soil mesofauna. Using whole organism DNA (wocDNA) metabarcoding recently developed metaMATE pipeline, have generated spatially explicit reliable haplotype-level sequence data mesofaunal assemblages...
Mimicry, that is, the imitation of any unpalatable or defensive species by another, has been central interest to evolutionary research since Darwin's lifetime. Two ant species,
The Canary Islands endemic species Aphaenogaster hesperia Santschi, 1911 was described based solely on two workers captured in a north-western coastal area of Tenerife (Canary Islands) 1902 and 1903. has not been recorded the last 100 years only information its type locality is known. This species, belonging to crocea group, recently rediscovered new site within pine forest at 950 m a.s.l. very different habitat, revealing lack ecological knowledge which may have caused remained unnoticed...
Using subterranean fauna in the Canary Islands as a simplified natural laboratory, we explored how interplay of eco-evolutionary processes shape taxonomic and functional diversity patterns oceanic archipelagos through geological times. First, demonstrated an overall convergence trait spaces communities across islands, yet with variability according to each island’s ontogenetic state—young, mature, or senescent. Next, showed that reduced species contribution traits space mature islands is...
New distribution data of insects for the Canary Islands (Blattodea, Coleoptera and Hemiptera)