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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Freitas, Rui
• Romeiras, Maria
• Silva, Luís
• Cordeiro, Ricardo
• Madeira, Patrícia
• González, José Antonio
• Wirtz, Peter
• Falcón, Jesús M
• Brito, Alberto
• Floeter, Sergio R
• Afonso, Pedro
• Porteiro, Filipe
• Viera-Rodríguez, María Ascensión
• Neto, Ana Isabel
• Haroun, Ricardo
• Farminhão, João N M
• Rebelo, Ana Cristina
• Baptista, Lara
• Melo, Carlos S
• Martínez, Alejandro
• Núñez, Jorge
• Berning, Björn
• Johnson, Markes E
• Ávila, Sérgio P

Titel

Restructuring of the 'Macaronesia' biogeographic unit: A marine multi-taxon biogeographical approach

Ist Teil von

• Scientific reports, 2019-11, Vol.9 (1), p.15792-18, Article 15792

Ort / Verlag

England: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, Canary Islands and Cabo Verde are commonly united under the term "Macaronesia". This study investigates the coherency and validity of Macaronesia as a biogeographic unit using six marine groups with very different dispersal abilities: coastal fishes, echinoderms, gastropod molluscs, brachyuran decapod crustaceans, polychaete annelids, and macroalgae. We found no support for the current concept of Macaronesia as a coherent marine biogeographic unit. All marine groups studied suggest the exclusion of Cabo Verde from the remaining Macaronesian archipelagos and thus, Cabo Verde should be given the status of a biogeographic subprovince within the West African Transition province. We propose to redefine the Lusitanian biogeographical province, in which we include four ecoregions: the South European Atlantic Shelf, the Saharan Upwelling, the Azores, and a new ecoregion herein named Webbnesia, which comprises the archipelagos of Madeira, Selvagens and the Canary Islands.