AF Bessa

B Vanhoorne

D Iaciofano

J Lowry

L Fanini

L Vandepitte

LE Hughes

Lo Brutto S

O Defeo

R Cardoso

W Decock

X Zafeiropoulos

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          Book of abstracts   1  Table of contents   Foreword from co-coordinators 2  Committees 3  Programme of the 18th ICA 4  Abstracts – Plenary lectures 14  Abstracts – Oral presentations 18  Abstracts – Posters 78  List of participants 132      The present document is only available as a pdf document.    38  Talitraits: a taxonomic backbone for talitrid amphipods’ traits L Fanini1*, O Defeo2, AF Bessa3, LE Hughes4, D Iaciofano5, R Cardoso6, X Zafeiropoulos1,  S Lo Brutto5, L Vandepitte7, B Vanhoorne7, W Decock7 & J Lowry8 1 Institute for Marine Biology Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Thalassokosmos, Gournes Pediados (former US base), 71500 Crete, Greece 2 Unidad de Ciencias del Mar, Univ. de la República de Uruguay, Iguá 4225, 11400 Montevideo, Uruguay 3Marine and Environmental Research Centre, University of Coimbra, Department of Zoology Largo Marquês de Pombal University of Coimbra, 3004-517 Coimbra, Portugal 4 The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom 5 Dipartimento Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Farmaceutiche, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo, Italy 6 Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, av. Pasteur 458, 22290-250 RJ, Brazil  7 Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Wandelaarkaai 7, 8400 Oostende, Belgium 8Australian Museum Research Institute, 6 College street, 2000 Sydney, NSW, Australia *lucia@hcmr.gr  Organisms’ traits are increasingly being targeted to describe systems and their functionality. In ecological studies, analysis of traits’ as units are largely applied to communities, while the application of traits to taxonomic levels  is receiving less attention. The project “Talitraits” was launched to target: 1) a relatively low taxonomic level, the family Talitridae and 2) a well-defined ecological level, marine coastal zones. The selection of these levels drives the focus towards a set of traits that characterises talitrid species resident in coastal zones worldwide.  The project was supported by the E-Science European LifeWatch Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research through LifeWatch Belgium. The Infrastructure targets different aspects of biodiversity research, and the Taxonomic Backbone of LifeWatch aims at bringing together taxonomic and species-related data and at filling the gaps in our knowledge, expanding the content and enhancing the quality of taxonomic databases. “Talitraits” thematic editors met to select a set of traits, consistent with the attributes already present in WoRMS on one hand, and sufficient to define coastal talitrids on the other. Traits were prioritized and addressed, using the published literature. Size, diet and relationship with substrate were set as initial priorities. Being the focus restricted to coastal organisms, distribution records were inserted as Country name - Exclusive Economic Zone. Traits specifically targeted by other thematic datasets (e.g. AMBI species, introduced species) were also prioritized. The analysis of traits at family level and for a specific environment at global scale tightly connects to the species-environment perspective. It highlights the relevance of the local level within a global scale, and implies a connection of single species with environmental features (including human-driven ones). A set of additional traits, e.g. behavioural ones, will be a forthcoming priority area to address this specific theoretical frame. The Talitraits project highlights the issue of unbalanced literature within the Talitridae family, hence the dataset can be used to plan further gap-filling research.   

Talitraits: a taxonomic backbone for talitrid amphipods’ traits

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