A revision of Artemia biodiversity in Macaronesia
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...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3543279 2023-05-15T17:32:26+02:00 A revision of Artemia biodiversity in Macaronesia Hontoria, Francisco Redón, Stela Maccari, Marta Varó, Inmaculada Navarro, Juan Carlos Ballell, Lluis Amat, Francisco 2012-10-18 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3543279 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23075404 https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-9063-8-25 en eng BioMed Central http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3543279 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23075404 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-9063-8-25 Copyright ©2012 Hontoria et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY Review Text 2012 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-9063-8-25 2013-09-04T18:18:45Z 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. Text North Atlantic PubMed Central (PMC) Aquatic Biosystems 8 1 25 |
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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. |
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