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Exceptional invertebrate diversity in a scree slope in Eastern Spain

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In this study, the invertebrate fauna of a colluvial Mesovoid Shallow Substratum (MSS) is Eastern Spain was characterized, and the importance of the MSS as refuge for endemic and rare species was assessed. Ten pitfall traps were buried up to 1 m deep inside multiperforated PVC tubes across a stone debris. Several environmental variables were measured in each sampling point. The completeness of the inventory was assessed, and different diversity patterns—variation in abundance, species richness and species composition—were analyzed. 4150 individuals and 164 species were captured, most of them arthropods. The number of individuals and species varied considerably among traps. Half of the species were represented by one or two individuals, and neither the species accumulation curves nor the curves for the non-parametric estimators showed any sign of stabilizing. Individuals of abundant species aggregated in one or a few traps. No consistent diversity patterns were found, except that distance among traps partially explained the similarity in species composition when considering only the most abundant species. This is a very rich but uneven assemblage that shows a high degree of species turnover between traps. One-sixth of the species can be classified as either troglobionts or troglophiles, but there is a significant presence of edaphic species. Obtaining complete fauna inventories in the MSS has proven to be a challenging task. The study of the MSS reveals important faunistic information, providing new taxa to science as well as interesting records of poorly known species.

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We would like to thank all the taxonomists that collaborated in the identification of the specimens: Lluc García (Isopoda), Mateo Vadell (Chilopoda), Manuel Baena (Hemiptera), Drs. Alberto Martínez-Ortí (Mollusca, Pulmonata), Mariló Moraza (Acarina, Mesostigmata), Luis Subías (Acarina, Oribatida), Carlos Prieto (Opiliones), Miquel A. Arnedo (Araneae, Dysderidae), Rafael Jordana (Collembola), Miguel Gaju-Ricart (Microcoryphia), Henrik Enghoff (Diplopoda), Arturo Goldarazena (Thysanoptera), Arturo Baz (Psocoptera), Pablo Barranco (Orthoptera), Javier Fresneda (Coleoptera, Leiodidae), José Carlos Otero (Coleoptera, Cryptophagidae and Latridiidae), Xavier Bellés (Coleoptera, Ptinidae), Peter Hlavac (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae), Luisa Díaz-Aranda (Neuroptera), Alberto Tinaut (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), José Luis Nieves (Hymenoptera) and Daniel Martín-Vega (Diptera). We also thank the Servici de Vida Silvestre (Conselleria d’Infraestrutura, Territori i Medi Ambiente de la Generalitat Valenciana) for support and field sampling licences. Rufino Fama, Martín Arriolabengoa and Virginia Martínez-Pillado helped with fieldwork; Rufino also helped us with the construction of the SSDs. Lucía Maltez kindly reviewed the English. This research Project (CGL2010-19924) was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. A. J.-V. was supported by the CSIC JAE-Doc Program which is partially financed by the European Social Fund.

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  1. Departamento de Biogeografía y Cambio Global, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain

    Alberto Jiménez-Valverde

  2. Grupo de Investigación de Biología del Suelo y de los Ecosistemas Subterráneos. Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Facultad de Biología, Ciencias Ambientales y Química, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

    Alberto Jiménez-Valverde, José D. Gilgado, Alberto Sendra, Gonzalo Pérez-Suárez & Vicente M. Ortuño

  3. Departamento de Botánica. Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Valencia, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain

    Juan J. Herrero-Borgoñón

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Table S1

Complete list of species collected in the colluvial MSS (DOC 364 kb)

Figures S1–S3

Abundance in each SSD for species with 10 or more individuals (DOC 179 kb)

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Jiménez-Valverde, A., Gilgado, J.D., Sendra, A. et al. Exceptional invertebrate diversity in a scree slope in Eastern Spain. J Insect Conserv 19, 713–728 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-015-9794-1

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