A revision of Artemia biodiversity in Macaronesia
Abstract In a biogeographical context, the term Macaronesia broadly embraces the North Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde. The peculiar arid climatic conditions in some of these places have led to the development of marine salt exploitations,...
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ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/64047 2024-02-11T10:06:27+01:00 A revision of Artemia biodiversity in Macaronesia Hontoria, Francisco Redón, Stella Maccari, Marta Varó, Inmaculada Navarro, Juan Carlos Ballell, Lluis Amat, Francisco 2012-10-18 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/64047 https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-9063-8-25 en eng BioMed Central Publisher’s version http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-9063-8-25 Aquatic Biosystems. Oct 18;8(1):25 (2012) http://hdl.handle.net/10261/64047 open artículo http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 2012 ftcsic https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-9063-8-25 2024-01-16T09:44:13Z Abstract In a biogeographical context, the term Macaronesia broadly embraces the North Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde. The peculiar arid climatic conditions in some of these places have led to the development of marine salt exploitations, which can be counted among the hypersaline habitats of the brine shrimp Artemia (Branchiopoda, Anostraca). Parthenogenetic populations of this anostracan were described in the Canary Islands during the last decades of the 20th century, while the American Artemia franciscana species was recently found in the Cape Verde archipelago. Following an invasive pattern, this exotic species has recently reached the Canary Islands, too. This paper reports information dealing with biotope loss (solar saltworks) in this biogeographical region, together with possible consequences concerning the arrival of invasive species, two factors that frequently promote dramatic biodiversity losses. The discussion of this threat focuses mainly on the Canary Islands archipelago where native species of Artemia still exist. This work was supported by the Spanish National Plan I+D+I projects CGL2008-03277 and CGL2008-04737-E. S.R and M.M were supported by Ph D grants from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), respectively. Peer Reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) Aquatic Biosystems 8 1 25 |
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Abstract In a biogeographical context, the term Macaronesia broadly embraces the North Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde. The peculiar arid climatic conditions in some of these places have led to the development of marine salt exploitations, which can be counted among the hypersaline habitats of the brine shrimp Artemia (Branchiopoda, Anostraca). Parthenogenetic populations of this anostracan were described in the Canary Islands during the last decades of the 20th century, while the American Artemia franciscana species was recently found in the Cape Verde archipelago. Following an invasive pattern, this exotic species has recently reached the Canary Islands, too. This paper reports information dealing with biotope loss (solar saltworks) in this biogeographical region, together with possible consequences concerning the arrival of invasive species, two factors that frequently promote dramatic biodiversity losses. The discussion of this threat focuses mainly on the Canary Islands archipelago where native species of Artemia still exist. This work was supported by the Spanish National Plan I+D+I projects CGL2008-03277 and CGL2008-04737-E. S.R and M.M were supported by Ph D grants from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), respectively. Peer Reviewed |
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A revision of Artemia biodiversity in Macaronesia |
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A revision of Artemia biodiversity in Macaronesia |
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A revision of Artemia biodiversity in Macaronesia |
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A revision of Artemia biodiversity in Macaronesia |
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A revision of Artemia biodiversity in Macaronesia |
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