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Defining the importance of landscape metrics for large branchiopod biodiversity and conservation: the case of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands

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The deficiency in the distributional data of invertebrate taxa is one of the major impediments acting on the bias towards the low awareness of its conservation status. The present study sets a basic framework to understand the large branchiopods distribution in the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands. Since the extensive surveys performed in the late 1980s, no more studies existed updating the information for the whole studied area. The present study fills the gap, gathering together all available information on large branchiopods distribution since 1995, and analysing the effect of human population density and several landscape characteristics on their distribution, taking into consideration different spatial scales (100 m, 1 km and 10 km). In overall, 28 large branchiopod taxa (17 anostracans, 7 notostracans and 4 spinicaudatans) are known to occur in the area. Approximately 30% of the sites hosted multiple species, with a maximum of 6 species. Significant positive co-occurring species pairs were found clustered together, forming 4 different associations of large branchiopod species. In general, species clustered in the same group showed similar responses to analysed landscape characteristics, usually showing a better fit at higher spatial scales.

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Acknowledgements

We dedicate this paper to the memory of Prof. Graziella Mura that inspired many of us with her passionate approach to these interesting organisms. We also dedicate this study to the memory of our co-author Prof. Maria Rosa Miracle, who was an admired and stimulating researcher in the Iberian limnology. We want to sincerely thank all people that selflessly supplied us with large branchiopod records. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for providing valuable comments to an earlier version of the manuscript. MF is supported by a grant from the Brazilian Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico—CNPq (401045/2014-5), program Ciência sem Fronteiras. DC-M held a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (FPU014/06783).

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  1. GRECO, Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of Girona, Girona, Spain

    Jordi Sala, Stéphanie Gascón, David Cunillera-Montcusí & Dani Boix

  2. Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Miguel Alonso & Joan Lluís Pretus

  3. Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre de la Sal, CSIC, Ribera de Cabanes, Castellón, Spain

    Francisco Amat

  4. Laboratório Marítimo da Guia, MARE– Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Cascais, Portugal

    Luís Cancela da Fonseca

  5. CTA - Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias da Água, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

    Luís Cancela da Fonseca

  6. FCT, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

    Margarida Cristo

  7. CCMar, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

    Margarida Cristo & Margarida Machado

  8. Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Seville, Spain

    Margarita Florencio

  9. Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil

    Margarita Florencio

  10. Research Group on Ecology and Dynamics of Aquatic Ecosystems, University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain

    Juan García-de-Lomas

  11. Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain

    Maria Rosa Miracle, Juan Rueda & María Sahuquillo

  12. Integrative Freshwater Ecology Group, Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes, Spanish Research Council (CEAB-CSIC), Blanes, Girona, Catalonia, Spain

    Alexandre Miró & Marc Ventura

  13. Zoology Unit, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

    José Luis Pérez-Bote

  14. Asociación de Educación Ambiental El Bosque Animado, Córdoba, Spain

    Florent Prunier & Javier Ripoll

  15. Department of Microbiology and Ecology, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain

    Juan Rueda

  16. Dirección General de Medio Natural, Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain

    María Sahuquillo

  17. Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Sevilla, Seville, Spain

    Laura Serrano

  18. Asociación Columbares, Murcia, Spain

    David Verdiell-Cubedo

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Sala, J., Gascón, S., Cunillera-Montcusí, D. et al. Defining the importance of landscape metrics for large branchiopod biodiversity and conservation: the case of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands. Hydrobiologia 801, 81–98 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3293-1

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