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Joana Garrido Nogueira
The role of anthropogenic habitats in freshwater mussel conservation
The data that supports the findings of this study are available in the supplementary material of this article.
Unravelling biodiversity, evolution and threats to conservation in the Sahara-Sahel
Deserts and arid regions are generally perceived as bare and rather homogeneous areas of low diversity. The Sahara is the largest warm desert in the world and together with the arid Sahel displays high topographical and climatic heterogeneity, and has experienced recent and strong climatic oscillations that have greatly shifted biodiversity distribution and community composition. The large size, remoteness and long-term political instability of the Sahara-Sahel, have limited knowledge on its biodiversity. However, over the last decade, there have been an increasing number of published scientific studies based on modern geomatic and molecular tools, and broad sampling of taxa of these region…