Monitoring arthropods under the scope of LIFE SNAILS project -Part II

Each sample represents one season, meaning that the trap was collected every three months. In total, we retrieved 20282 specimens that we were able to identify to a level of Order, Family, Genus, Species or Subspecies, 15055 out of those assigned to Species or Subspecies (74%). We made 1928 observations that were assigned to morphospecies codes, 1705 out of those were assigned to species or subspecies (88,4%).

We were able to identify 172 unique species and subspecies. 27 species were endemic, 48 were native non-endemic, 77 were introduced and 20 were of indeterminate colonization status. Moreover, we calculated the Biotic Integrity Index (Tsafack et al., 2023) to assess the habitat quality of the sampled sites, which directly contributes to the goals of the LIFE SNAILS project and achieves one of the most important purposes of this sampling