Island Biology Interest Group

2012 to 2020

ISLAND-BIODIV: Understanding biodiversity dynamics in tropical and subtropical islands as an aid to science based conservation action

ISLAND-BIODIV is a concerted, transnational and transregional collaboration to provide measures of biodiversity within island ecosystems and establish(...)
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2012 to 2020

MOVECLIM - Montane vegetation as listening posts for climate change

Recent climate change has deeply affected the unique and vulnerable polar and high mountain ecosystems. However, due to limited knowledge, high(...)
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2009 to 2020

EDEN [PRO-BIO] Profiling Reliable Organisms as BIOindicators (An integrated approach for island systems)

Arthropods as bioindicators of ecological stability Remote archipelagos enclose high endemism levels and a significant portion of terrestrial(...)
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2000 to 2020

BALA - Biodiversity of Arthropods the Laurissilva of Azores

Since 1999, our knowledge of arthropods in native forests of the Azores has improved greatly. Under the BALA project (Biodiversity of Arthropods of(...)
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2000 to 2020

Biodiversity of the terrestrial arthropods of Madeira

Two projects funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal) allowed the implementation of the inventory of selected groups of(...)
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