Clara Gaspar

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.