A study conducted by researchers from the universities of Lisbon and the Azores has proven that in the Azorean native forests there are arthropod communities that remained stable and even grew, contradicting a worldwide trend of collapse.
The researchers from the two universities analyzed the arthropod communities in the native forests of the Azores, finding that these communities not only remained stable, but in some cases even grew over time.
This discovery contrasts with the worldwide trend of decline and collapse of arthropod populations, which has been documented in various regions of the planet and attributed to factors such as habitat loss, pesticide use, and climate change.
The native forests of the Azores thus represent an exceptionally successful case in the conservation of these invertebrates, demonstrating that this ecosystem managed to preserve its arthropod communities sustainably.
