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Clara Gaspar
Researcher at University of Sheffield
Publications - 27
Citations - 1727
Clara Gaspar is an academic researcher from University of Sheffield. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Abundance (ecology). The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 27 publications receiving 1550 citations. Previous affiliations of Clara Gaspar include University of the Azores.
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Evaluating the performance of species richness estimators: sensitivity to sample grain size.
TL;DR: It is concluded that most species richness estimators may be useful in biodiversity studies and a decision framework is proposed to assess which estimator should be used to compare species richness scores of different sites, depending on the grain size of the original data, and of the kind of data available.
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Extinction debt on oceanic islands
Kostas A. Triantis,Paulo A. V. Borges,Richard J. Ladle,Joaquín Hortal,Pedro Cardoso,Clara Gaspar,Francisco Dinis,Enesima P. Mendonca,Lúcia M. A. Silveira,Rosalina Gabriel,Catarina Melo,Ana M. C. Santos,Isabel R. Amorim,Sérvio P. Ribeiro,Artur R. M. Serrano,Jose Alberto Quartau,Robert J. Whittaker +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, a method that uses the historical sequence of deforestation in the Azorean Islands, to calculate realistic and ecologically adjusted species-area relationships was used to reveal dramatic and hitherto unrecognized levels of extinction debt, as a result of the extensive destruction of the native forest.
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Invasibility and species richness of island endemic arthropods: a general model of endemic vs. exotic species
Paulo A. V. Borges,Jorge M. Lobo,Eduardo Brito de Azevedo,Clara Gaspar,Clara Gaspar,Catarina Melo,Luis Nunes +6 more
TL;DR: The relationship between the endemic and introduced arthropod richness is looked at, to ask whether areas with high levels of endemic species richness deter invasions.
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Rapid biodiversity assessment of spiders (Araneae) using semi-quantitative sampling: a case study in a Mediterranean forest
Pedro Cardoso,Nikolaj Scharff,Clara Gaspar,Sérgio Henriques,Sérgio Henriques,Rui Carvalho,Pedro Humberto Castro,Jesper B. Schmidt,Israel F. Silva,Tamas Szüts,Alberto Castro,Luis C. Crespo +11 more
TL;DR: A thorough inventory of a Mediterranean oak forest spider fauna carried out during 2 weeks used a semi‐quantitative sampling protocol to collect comparable data in a rigorous, rapid and efficient way.
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Ranking protected areas in the Azores using standardised sampling of soil epigean arthropods
Paulo A. V. Borges,C.E. Aguiar,João J. S. Amaral,Isabel R. Amorim,Genage Andre,Anabela Arraiol,Anabela Arraiol,Arturo Baz,Francisco Dinis,Henrik Enghoff,Clara Gaspar,Clara Gaspar,Fernando A. Ilharco,Volker Mahnert,Catarina Melo,Fernando Pereira,Jose Alberto Quartau,Sérvio P. Ribeiro,Jordi Ribes,Artur R. M. Serrano,Antonio B. Sousa,R. Z. Strassen,Luís Vieira,Virgílio Vieira,Álvaro Vitorino,Joerg Wunderlich +25 more
TL;DR: In this paper, 19 areas in seven of the nine Azorean islands were evaluated for species diversity and rarity based on soil epigean arthropods, and it was concluded that at least one well-managed reserve per island is absolutely necessary to have a good fraction of the endemic arthropod preserved.