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Title: | Patterns of diversity and endemism of soft-bodied meiofauna in an oceanic island, Lanzarote, Canary Islands | Authors: | Martinez, Alejandro Di Domenico, Maikon Leasi, Francesca Curini-Galletti, Marco Todaro, M. Antonio Dal Zotto, Matteo GOBERT, Stefan ARTOIS, Tom Norenburg, Jon Joerger, Katharina M. Nunez, Jorge Fontaneto, Diego Worsaae, Katrine |
Issue Date: | 2019 | Publisher: | SPRINGER HEIDELBERG | Source: | MARINE BIODIVERSITY, 49, p. 2033-2055 | Abstract: | Oceanic islands, characterized by high levels of endemism and distinct faunas when compared to neighbouring continents, represent natural evolutionary laboratories for biologists to understand ecological and evolutionary processes. However, most studies on oceanic islands have focused on terrestrial and marine macrofaunal organisms, and ignored microscopic animals. We present here an inventory of all soft-bodied meiofaunal organisms collected during a 2-week workshop on the oceanic island of Lanzarote, Canary Islands. Our checklist included 239 species, with 88 of them endemic to the archipelago. The number of endemic species was lower in groups with a higher proportion of parthenogenetic species, while it was not significantly affected by body size and percentage of species with dispersal stages. A higher percentage of endemic species was found in isolated habitats and environments, with only annelids showing significantly higher number of endemic species in anchialine caves. Our results might be biased by the high number of indeterminate species found in our samples and the lack of knowledge of the meiofauna of the African coast. Our findings, however, provide the first insight of patterns of diversity of soft-bodied meiofauna in Atlantic oceanic islands, suggesting that island endemic species might also exist amongst microscopic animals. | Notes: | [Martinez, Alejandro; Fontaneto, Diego] Natl Res Council Italy, Water Res Inst, Largo Tonolli 50, I-28922 Verbania, Italy. [Martinez, Alejandro; Worsaae, Katrine] Univ Copenhagen, Dept Biol, Marine Biol Sect, Univ Pk 5, DK-2800 Copenhagen, Denmark. [Di Domenico, Maikon] Univ Fed Parana, Ctr Marine Res, Pontal Do Parana, Parana, Brazil. [Leasi, Francesca] Univ Tennessee, Dept Biol Geol & Environm Sci, 615 McCallie Ave, Chattanooga, TN 37403 USA. [Curini-Galletti, Marco] Univ Sassari, Dept Vet Sci, Via Vienna 2, I-07100 Sassari, Italy. [Todaro, M. Antonio; Dal Zotto, Matteo] Univ Modena & Reggio Emilia, Dept Life Sci, Via G Campi 213-D, I-41125 Modena, Italy. [Gobert, Stefan; Artois, Tom] Hasselt Univ, Res Grp Zool Biodivers & Toxicol, Ctr Environm Sci, Agoralaan Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. [Norenburg, Jon] Natl Museum Nat Hist, Smithsonian Inst, Dept Invertebrate Zool, Washington, DC 20560 USA. [Joerger, Katharina M.] SNSB Bavarian State Collect Zool, Munchhausenstr 21, D-81247 Munich, Germany. [Nunez, Jorge] Univ La Laguna, Dept Anim Biol Edaphol & Geol, Benthos Lab, Ave Astrofis Francisco Sanchez S-N, San Cristobal la Laguna 38206, Spain. | Keywords: | Anchialine; Annelida; Biogeography; Gastrotricha; Interstitial fauna; Caves; Proseriata; Rhabdocoela; Rotifera;Anchialine; Annelida; Biogeography; Gastrotricha; Interstitial fauna; Caves; Proseriata; Rhabdocoela; Rotifera | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/29976 | ISSN: | 1867-1616 | e-ISSN: | 1867-1624 | DOI: | 10.1007/s12526-019-01007-0 | ISI #: | 000489927900001 | Rights: | Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung 2019 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2020 |
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