| Authors | Katharina M. Jörger, Nuno V. Álvaro, Luiz F. Andrade, Thiago Q. Araújo, Víctor Aramayo, Tom Artois, William Ballentine, Franziska S. Bergmeier, Andrea Z. Botelho, Ariane Buckenmeyer, Ana T. Capucho, Irina Cherneva, Marco Curini-Galletti, Anitha M. Davison, Wang Deng, Maikon Di Domenico, Christina Ellison, Jan Engelhardt, Maria Fais, Diego Fontaneto, Duarte G. Frade, António M. de Frias Martins, Freya Goetz, Rick Hochberg, Alberto de Jesus-Navarrete, Ulf Jondelius, Ylva Jondelius, Nina Luckas, Alejandro Martínez Garcia, Anna Mikhlina, Timea P. Neusser, Jon L. Norenburg, Juan C.F. Pardo, Antônio Peixoto, Nickellaus Roberts, Alexandra Savchenko, Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa, Lenke Tödter, Meghan Yap-Chiongco & Ana Cristina Ricardo Costa |
| Text | 461608 2021 meiofauna Meiozores2019 Exploring the marine meiofauna of the Azores Katharina M. Jorger, Nuno V. Álvaro, Luiz F. Andrade, Thiago Q. Araujo, Victor Aramayo, Tom Artois, William Ballentine, Franziska S. Bergmeier, Andrea Z. Botelho, Ariane Buckenmeyer, Ana T. Capucho, Irina Cherneva, Marco Curini Galletti, Anitha M. Davison, Wang Deng, Maikon Di Domenico, Christina Ellison, Jan Engelhardt, Maria Fais, Diego Fontaneto, Duarte G. Frade, Antonio M. de Frias Martins, Freya Goetz, Rick Hochberg, Alberto de Jesus Navarrete, Ulf Jondelius, Ylva Jondelius, Nina Luckas, Alejandro Martinez Garcia, Anna Mikhlina, Timea P. Neusser, Jon L. Norenburg, Juan C.F. Pardo, Antonio Peixoto, Nickellaus Roberts, Alexandra Savchenko, Andreas Schmidt Rhaesa, Lenke Todter, Meghan Yap Chiongco Ana Cristina Ricardo Costa SNSB Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Munich, Germany. E mail joerger@snsb.de Instituto de Investigação e Tecnologias Agrarias e do Ambiente IITAA , University of the Azores, Portugal Museu de Oceanografia Prof. Petronio Alves Coelho, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil Department of Animal Biology, Institute of Biology, State University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil Department of Oceanography and Climate Change, Instituto del Mar del Peru, Peru/ Faculty of Biological Sciences,Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru Centre for Environmental Sciences CMK , Hasselt University, Belgium Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL, USA Biocenter of the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Systematic Zoology, Germany Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of the Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal/ CIBIO Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, InBio Associate Laboratory, University of the Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal Department of Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Universita degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari, Italy School of Ocean Studies and Technology, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies, Kerala, India State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Early Life and Environments, Department of Geology, Northwest University, Xi an, People s Republic of China Center for Marine Studies, Federal University of Parana, Pontal do Sul, Pontal do Parana, Parana, Brazil Oregon Institute of Marine Biology and Biology Department, University of Oregon, Charleston, OR, USA Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science and Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Germany Technical and Environmental Consulting Group, SSL Servizi Sicurezza Lavoro, Siniscola, Italy National Research Council, Water Research Institute, Verbania, Italy CCMAR Centre of Marine Sciences, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal Sociedade Afonso Chaves, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Açores, Portugal Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell MA, USA Department of Systematic and Aquatic Ecology. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Quintana Roo, Mexico Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden N.A. Pertsov White Sea Biological Station, Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Centre of Costal Research CCR , Department of Natural Sciences, University of Agder, Kristiansand / Norwegian Institute of Water Research NIVA , Grimstad, Norway Departamento de Zoologia, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Department of Biological Sciences and Alabama Museum of Natural History, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA Zoological Museum Hamburg, Leibniz Institute of Biodiversity Change, Hamburg, Germany In July 2019 an international team of 39 senior and junior researchers from nine countries met at the University of the Azores in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel for a 10 days workshop/ summer school to explore the meiofaunal biodiversity in marine sediments of the Azores. In total, we sampled intertidal and subtidal sediments from 54 localities on 14 major sites around São Miguel and additionally explored eight freshwater and terrestrial sites for rotifers. We sorted and investigated more than 2000 living specimens in the field, yielding approximately 180 species of soft bodied meiofauna, representing most major clades of meiofauna with a focus on nematodes, polychaete annelids, proseriate and rhabdocoel flatworms, gastrotrichs, acoelomorphs, nemerteans, molluscs and cnidarians. Most of the encountered diversity shows similarities to the North East Atlantic continental meiofauna, but in depth morphological and molecular analyses are still pending. About 60 of the 180 species could not be assigned a species level identification in the field, and nearly 15% of the total diversity is expected to be new to science and is awaiting formal description. Herein, we present an overview of the results of the workshop, providing detailed information on the sampling sites, methodology and encountered diversity, and we offer a preliminary discussion on aspects of faunal elements shared with other biogeographic regions. We highlight the most common members of the marine meiofauna of the Azores, provide preliminary diversity estimates and suggest a roadmap for future research towards a better understanding of the meiofauna in this remote archipelago. 11 Published version az2 2021_Azoreana_Jorger et al.pdf Articolo in rivista F. Maduro Dias 0874 0380 Açoreana Açoreana Açoreana diego.fontaneto FONTANETO DIEGO alejandro.martinezgarcia MARTINEZ GARCIA ALEJANDRO |
