Publications
Manuscripts submitted
37. MATTHEWS, T., BORREGAARD, M., GILLESPIE, C., UGLAND, K., RIGAL, F., KRÜGER, R., MARQUES, R., SADLER, J., BORGES, P.A.V. & WHITTAKER, R.J. Extension of the gambin model to multimodal species abundance distributions.
Manuscripts accepted / in press / published
36. BORGES, P.A.V., CARDOSO, P., FATTORINI, S., RIGAL , F., MATTHEWS, T.J., AMORIM, I.R., FLORENCIO, M., BORDA-DE-ÁGUA , L., REGO, C., PEREIRA, F., NUNES, R., CARVALHO, R., FERREIRA, M.T., LOPEZ, H., PEREZ DELGADO, A.J., OTTO, R., FERNANDEZ LUGO, S., DE NASCIMENTO, L., CAUJAPE-CASTELLS, J., CASQUET, J., DANFLOUS, S., CECILIO, L., FOURNEL, J., SADEYEN, A-M., ELIAS, R.B., FERNANDEZ-PALACIOS, J.M., OROMI, P., THEBAUD, C., STRASBERG, D. & EMERSON, B.C. Emergent properties in island species community assembly: testing assembly rules in temperate vs tropical islands. Frontiers in Biogeography (In press)
35.NORDER, S.J., PROIOS, K.V., WHITTAKER, R.J., ALONSO, M.R., BORGES, P.A.V., BORREGAARD, M.K., COWIE, R.H., FLORENS, F.B.V., DE FRIAS MARTINS, A.M., IBÁÑEZ, M., KISSLING, W.D., DE NASCIMENTO, L., OTTO, R., PARENT, C.E., RIGAL, F., WARREN, B.H., FERNÁNDEZ-PALACIOS, J.M., VAN LOON, E.E., TRIANTIS, K.A. & RIJSDIJK, K.F. Beyond the Last Glacial Maximum: Island endemism is best explained by long-lasting archipelago configurations. Global Ecology and Biogeography (In press)
34. BORGES, P.AV., CARDOSO, P., KREFT, H., WHITTAKER, R.J., FATTORINI, S., EMERSON, B.C., GIL, A., GILLESPIE, R.G., MATTHEWS, T.J., SANTOS, A.M.C., STEINBAUER, M.J., THÉBAUD, C., AH-PENG, C., AMORIM, I.R., ARANDA, S.C., ARROZ, A.M., AZEVEDO, J.M., BOIEIRO, M., BORDA-DE-ÁGUA, L., CARVALHO, J.C., ELIAS, R.B., FERNÁNDEZ-PALACIOS, J.M., FLORENCIO, M., GONZÁLEZ-MANCEBO, J.M., HEANEY, L.R., HORTAL, J., KUEFFER, C., LEQUETTE, B., MARTÍN-ESQUIVEL, J.L., LÓPEZ, H., MARCELINO, J., NUNES, R., OROMÍ, P., PATIÑO, J., PÉREZ, A.J., REGO, C., RIBEIRO, S.P., RIGAL, F., RODRIGUES, P., ROMINGER, A.J., SANTOS-REIS, M., SCHAEFER, H., SÉRGIO, C., SERRANO, A.R.M., SIM-SIM, M., STEPHENSON, P.J., SOARES, A.O., STRASBERG, D., VANDERPORTEN, A., VIEIRA, V. & GABRIEL, R. Islands in focus: a call for long-term coordinated survey and monitoring of forest biota across islands. Biodiversity and Conservation (Early view) pdf
33. BOIEIRO, M., MATTHEWS, T.J., REGO, C., CRESPO, L., AGUIAR, C.A.S., CARDOSO, P., RIGAL, F., SILVA, I., PEREIRA, F., BORGES, P.A.V. & SERRANO, A.R.M. A comparative analysis of terrestrial arthropod assemblages from a relict forest unveil historical extinctions and colonization differences between two oceanic islands. Plos ONE 13(4) e0195492. pdf
32. RIGAL, F., CARDOSO, P., LOBO, J.M., TRIANTIS, K.A., WHITTAKER, R.J. AMORIM, I.R. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2018). Functional traits of indigenous and exotic ground-dwelling arthropods show contrasting responses to land-use change in an oceanic island, Terceira, Azores. Diversity and Distributions. 24 (1) 36-47 pdf
31. HERNANDEZ-HERNANDEZ, R., BORGES, P.A.V., GABRIEL, R., RIGAL, F., AH-PENG, C. & GONZALEZ-MANCEBO, J.M. (2017). Scaling alpha and beta diversity: bryophytes along an elevational gradient in a sub-tropical oceanic island (La Palma, Canary Islands). Journal of Vegetation Sciences. 28 (6) 1209-1219 pdf
30. BORDA-DE-ÁGUA, L., WHITTAKER, R.J., CARDOSO, P., RIGAL, F., SANTOS, A.M.C., AMORIM, I.R., PARMAKELIS, A., TRIANTIS, K.A., PEREIRA, H.M. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2017). Dispersal ability determines the scaling properties of species abundance distributions: a case study using arthropods from the Azores. Scientific reports. 7: 3899 pdf
29. PICANÇO, A., RIGAL, F., BORGES, P.A.V. (2017). Area prioritization for insect pollinator communities on an Oceanic Island. Arquipélago Life and Marine Sciences, 34, 85-104 pdf
28. PICANÇO, A., GIL, A., RIGAL, F., BORGES, P.A.V. (2017). Pollination services mapping and economic valuation from insect communities: a case study in the Azores (Terceira Island). Nature Conservation. 18, 1-25 pdf
27. HENRIQUES, D.S.G., RIGAL, F., BORGES, P.A.V., AH-PENG, C. & GABRIEL, R. (2017). Functional diversity and composition of bryophyte water- related traits in Azorean native vegetation. Plant Ecology & Evolution. 10 (2-3) 127-137 pdf
26. PICANÇO, A., RIGAL, F., MATTHEWS, T.J., CARDOSO, P. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2017). Impact of land use change on flower-visiting insect communities on an oceanic island. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 10 (3), 211-223 pdf
25. BORGES, P.A.V., AMORIM, I.R., TERZOPOULOU, S., RIGAL, F., EMERSON, B. & SERRANO, A.R.M. (2017). Cryptic diversity in Azorean beetle genus Tarphius Erichson, 1845 (Coleoptera: Zopheridae): An integrative taxonomic approach with description of four new species. Zootaxa. 4236 (3), 401–449 pdf
24. BORREGAARD, M.K., AMORIM, I.R., BORGES, P.A.V., CABRAL, J., FERNANDEZ-PALACIOS, J.M., FIELD, R., HEANEY, L.R., KREFT, H., MATTHEWS, T.J., OLESEN, J.M., PRICE, J., RIGAL, F., STEINBAUER, M., TRIANTIS, K.A., VALENTE, L. &WHITTAKER, R.J. (2017). Oceanic island biogeography through the lens of the General Dynamic Model: assessment and prospect. Biological reviews. 92 (2), 830-853 pdf
23. BORGES, P.A.V., GASPAR, C., CRESPO, L., RIGAL, F., CARDOSO, P., PEREIRA, F., REGO, C., AMORIM, I.R., MELO, C., AGUIAR, C., ANDRE, G., MENDONÇA, E., RIBEIRO, S.P., HORTAL, J., SANTOS, A.M., BARCELOS, L., ENGHOFF, H., MAHNERT, V., PITA, M.T., RIBES, J., BAZ, A., SOUSA, A.B., VIEIRA, V., WUNDERLICH, J., PARMAKELIS, A., WHITTAKER, R.A., QUARTAU, J.A., SERRANO, A.R.M. & TRIANTIS, K.A. (2016). New records and detailed distribution and abundance of selected arthropod species collected between 1999 and 2011 in Azorean native forests. Biodiversity Data Journal. 4: e10948 pdf
22. FLORENCIO, M., RIGAL, F., BORGES, P.A.V., CARDOSO, P., SANTOS, A.M.C. & LOBO, J.M. (2016). The role of plant fidelity and land-use changes on island exotic and indigenous canopy spiders at local and regional scales. Biological invasions. 18 (8), 2309-2324 pdf
21. TRIANTIS, K.A.*, RIGAL, F.*, PARENT, C., CAMERON, R.A.D., LENZNER, B., PARMAKELIS, A., YEUNG, M.W., IBÁÑEZ, M., ALONSO, M.R., DE FRIAS MARTINS, A.M., TEIXEIRA, D.N.F., GRIFFITHS, O.L., YANES, Y., HAYES, K.A., PREECE, R.C., & COWIE, R.H. (2016). Discordance between morphological and taxonomical diversity: land snails of oceanic archipelagos. Journal of Biogeography. 43 (10), 2050–2061 *Equal contribution pdf
20. MATTHEWS, T.J., TRIANTIS, K.A., RIGAL, F., GUILHAUMON, F., BORREGAARD, M.K. & WHITTAKER, R.J. (2016). Island species–area relationships and species–accumulation curves are not equivalent: a synthetic analysis of habitat island datasets. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25,
607-618 pdf
19. FATTORINI, S., RIGAL, F., CARDOSO, P. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2016). Using species abundance distribution models and diversity indices for biogeographical analyses. Acta Oecologica. 70, 21-28 pdf
18. NUNES, R., GABRIEL R., ELIAS, R.B., RIGAL, F., SOARES, A.O., CARDOSO, P. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2015). Arthropods and other Biota associated with Azorean Trees & Shrubs: Juniperus brevifolia. Arquipélago Life and Marine Sciences, 32, 19-48 pdf
17. RIQUELME, C. *, RIGAL, F. *, HATHAWAY, J.J.M., NORTHUP, D.E. BORGES, P.A.V., GABRIEL, R., AMORIM, I.R. & DAPKEVICIUS M.L.N.E. (2015). Cave microbial community composition in oceanic islands: disentangling the effect of different colored mats in diversity patterns of Azorean lava tubes. FEMS Microbial Ecology. 91(12) *Equal contribution pdf
16. PARMAKELIS, A., RIGAL, F., MOURIKIS, A., BALANIKA, K., TERZOPOULOU, S., REGO, C., TRIANTIS, A. K., WHITTAKER, R.J. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2015). Comparative phylogeography of endemic Azorean arthropods. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15:250 pdf
15. CARVALHO, J.C., CARDOSO, P., RIGAL, F., TRIANTIS, K.A. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2015). Modelling directional spatio-temporal processes in island biogeography. Ecology and Evolution. 5 (20) 4671–4682 pdf
14. TERZOPOULOU, S., RIGAL, F., WHITTAKER, R.J., BORGES, P.A.V. & TRIANTIS, K.A. (2015). Drivers of extinction: the case of Azorean beetles. Biology Letters. 11(6) 20150273 pdf
13. CARDOSO, P., RIGAL, F. & CARVALHO, J.C. (2015). Biodiversity Assessment Tools, an R package for the measurement and estimation of alpha and beta taxon, phylogenetic and functional diversity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 6, 232-236 pdf (R package BAT)
12. WHITTAKER, R.J., RIGAL, F., BORGES, P.A.V., CARDOSO, P., TERZOPOULOU, S., CASANOVES, F., PLA, L., GUILHAUMON, F., LADLE, R.J. & TRIANTIS, K.A. (2014). Functional biogeography of oceanic islands and scaling of functional diversity in the Azores. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 111 (38) 13709–13714 pdf See special issue on functional biogeography
11. MATTHEWS, T.J., BORREGAARD, M.K., UGLAND, K.I., BORGES, P.A.V., RIGAL, F., CARDOSO, P., & WHITTAKER, R.J. (2014). The gambin model provides a superior fit to species abundance distributions with a single free parameter: evidence, implementation and interpretation. Ecography. 37 (10) 1002-1011 pdf
10. CARDOSO, P., RIGAL, F., BORGES, P.A.V. & CARVALHO, J.C. (2014) A new frontier in biodiversity inventory: a proposal for estimators of phylogenetic and functional diversity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 5, 452-461 pdf
9. CARDOSO, P., RIGAL, F., CARVALHO, J.C., FORTELIUS, M., GASPAR, C., BORGES, P.A.V. PODANI, J. & SCHMERA, D. (2014) Partitioning taxon, phylogenetic and functional beta diversity into replacement and richness difference components. Journal of Biogeography. 41 749-761 pdf
8. KOTSAKIOZI, P., RIGAL, F., VALAKOS, E. & PARMAKELIS, A. (2013). Decomposing the effects of intra-species variability, phylogeny, space and climate on the evolution of shell morphology: insights from the Greek endemic land snail genus Codringtonia Kobelt 1898 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Helicidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 110 (4) 796-813 pdf
7. PARMAKELIS, A., BALANIKA, K., TERZOPOULOU, S., RIGAL, F., BEASLEY, R.R., JONES, K.L., LANCE, S.L., WHITTAKER, R.J., TRIANTIS, K.A. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2013). Development of 28 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the endemic Azorean spider Sancus acoreensis (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Conservation Genetic resources. 5 (4) 1133-1134 pdf
6. CARDOSO, P.*, RIGAL, F.*, FATTORINI, S. TERZOPOULOU, S. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2013). Integrating landscape disturbance and indicator species in spatial conservation analysis. Plos ONE 8(5): e63294. pdf *Equal contribution
5. RIGAL, F., WHITTAKER, R.J., TRIANTIS, K.A. & BORGES, P.A.V (2013). Integration of non-indigenous species within the interspecific abundance– occupancy relationship. Acta Oecologica. 48 :69-75 pdf
4. MORTILLARO, J-M, RIGAL, F., RYBARCZYK, H., BERNARDES, M., ABRIL, G. & MEZIANE, T. (2012) Particulate organic matter distribution along the Lower Amazon River: addressing aquatic ecology concepts using fatty acids. PloS ONE 7(9): e46141. pdf
3. FATTORINI, S., CARDOSO, P., RIGAL, F. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2012) Use of Arthropod rarity for area prioritisation: Insights from the Azorean Islands. PLoS ONE 7(3) e33995. pdf
2. RIGAL, F., VIARD, F., AYATA, SD., & COMTET, T. (2010) Does larval supply explain the low proliferation of the invasive gastropod Crepidula fornicata in a tidal estuary? Biological Invasions. 12(9) 3171-3186. pdf
1. RIGAL F., CHEVALIER T., NEBEL C., CHARMANTIER G., TOMASINI J-A, AUJOULAT F. & BERREBI P. (2008). Osmoregulation as a potential factor for the differential distribution of two cryptic gobiid species, Pomatoschistus microps and P. marmoratus in French Mediterranean lagoons. Scientia Marina. 72(3) 469-476. pdf
Manuscripts submitted
37. MATTHEWS, T., BORREGAARD, M., GILLESPIE, C., UGLAND, K., RIGAL, F., KRÜGER, R., MARQUES, R., SADLER, J., BORGES, P.A.V. & WHITTAKER, R.J. Extension of the gambin model to multimodal species abundance distributions.
Manuscripts accepted / in press / published
36. BORGES, P.A.V., CARDOSO, P., FATTORINI, S., RIGAL , F., MATTHEWS, T.J., AMORIM, I.R., FLORENCIO, M., BORDA-DE-ÁGUA , L., REGO, C., PEREIRA, F., NUNES, R., CARVALHO, R., FERREIRA, M.T., LOPEZ, H., PEREZ DELGADO, A.J., OTTO, R., FERNANDEZ LUGO, S., DE NASCIMENTO, L., CAUJAPE-CASTELLS, J., CASQUET, J., DANFLOUS, S., CECILIO, L., FOURNEL, J., SADEYEN, A-M., ELIAS, R.B., FERNANDEZ-PALACIOS, J.M., OROMI, P., THEBAUD, C., STRASBERG, D. & EMERSON, B.C. Emergent properties in island species community assembly: testing assembly rules in temperate vs tropical islands. Frontiers in Biogeography (In press)
35.NORDER, S.J., PROIOS, K.V., WHITTAKER, R.J., ALONSO, M.R., BORGES, P.A.V., BORREGAARD, M.K., COWIE, R.H., FLORENS, F.B.V., DE FRIAS MARTINS, A.M., IBÁÑEZ, M., KISSLING, W.D., DE NASCIMENTO, L., OTTO, R., PARENT, C.E., RIGAL, F., WARREN, B.H., FERNÁNDEZ-PALACIOS, J.M., VAN LOON, E.E., TRIANTIS, K.A. & RIJSDIJK, K.F. Beyond the Last Glacial Maximum: Island endemism is best explained by long-lasting archipelago configurations. Global Ecology and Biogeography (In press)
34. BORGES, P.AV., CARDOSO, P., KREFT, H., WHITTAKER, R.J., FATTORINI, S., EMERSON, B.C., GIL, A., GILLESPIE, R.G., MATTHEWS, T.J., SANTOS, A.M.C., STEINBAUER, M.J., THÉBAUD, C., AH-PENG, C., AMORIM, I.R., ARANDA, S.C., ARROZ, A.M., AZEVEDO, J.M., BOIEIRO, M., BORDA-DE-ÁGUA, L., CARVALHO, J.C., ELIAS, R.B., FERNÁNDEZ-PALACIOS, J.M., FLORENCIO, M., GONZÁLEZ-MANCEBO, J.M., HEANEY, L.R., HORTAL, J., KUEFFER, C., LEQUETTE, B., MARTÍN-ESQUIVEL, J.L., LÓPEZ, H., MARCELINO, J., NUNES, R., OROMÍ, P., PATIÑO, J., PÉREZ, A.J., REGO, C., RIBEIRO, S.P., RIGAL, F., RODRIGUES, P., ROMINGER, A.J., SANTOS-REIS, M., SCHAEFER, H., SÉRGIO, C., SERRANO, A.R.M., SIM-SIM, M., STEPHENSON, P.J., SOARES, A.O., STRASBERG, D., VANDERPORTEN, A., VIEIRA, V. & GABRIEL, R. Islands in focus: a call for long-term coordinated survey and monitoring of forest biota across islands. Biodiversity and Conservation (Early view) pdf
33. BOIEIRO, M., MATTHEWS, T.J., REGO, C., CRESPO, L., AGUIAR, C.A.S., CARDOSO, P., RIGAL, F., SILVA, I., PEREIRA, F., BORGES, P.A.V. & SERRANO, A.R.M. A comparative analysis of terrestrial arthropod assemblages from a relict forest unveil historical extinctions and colonization differences between two oceanic islands. Plos ONE 13(4) e0195492. pdf
32. RIGAL, F., CARDOSO, P., LOBO, J.M., TRIANTIS, K.A., WHITTAKER, R.J. AMORIM, I.R. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2018). Functional traits of indigenous and exotic ground-dwelling arthropods show contrasting responses to land-use change in an oceanic island, Terceira, Azores. Diversity and Distributions. 24 (1) 36-47 pdf
31. HERNANDEZ-HERNANDEZ, R., BORGES, P.A.V., GABRIEL, R., RIGAL, F., AH-PENG, C. & GONZALEZ-MANCEBO, J.M. (2017). Scaling alpha and beta diversity: bryophytes along an elevational gradient in a sub-tropical oceanic island (La Palma, Canary Islands). Journal of Vegetation Sciences. 28 (6) 1209-1219 pdf
30. BORDA-DE-ÁGUA, L., WHITTAKER, R.J., CARDOSO, P., RIGAL, F., SANTOS, A.M.C., AMORIM, I.R., PARMAKELIS, A., TRIANTIS, K.A., PEREIRA, H.M. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2017). Dispersal ability determines the scaling properties of species abundance distributions: a case study using arthropods from the Azores. Scientific reports. 7: 3899 pdf
29. PICANÇO, A., RIGAL, F., BORGES, P.A.V. (2017). Area prioritization for insect pollinator communities on an Oceanic Island. Arquipélago Life and Marine Sciences, 34, 85-104 pdf
28. PICANÇO, A., GIL, A., RIGAL, F., BORGES, P.A.V. (2017). Pollination services mapping and economic valuation from insect communities: a case study in the Azores (Terceira Island). Nature Conservation. 18, 1-25 pdf
27. HENRIQUES, D.S.G., RIGAL, F., BORGES, P.A.V., AH-PENG, C. & GABRIEL, R. (2017). Functional diversity and composition of bryophyte water- related traits in Azorean native vegetation. Plant Ecology & Evolution. 10 (2-3) 127-137 pdf
26. PICANÇO, A., RIGAL, F., MATTHEWS, T.J., CARDOSO, P. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2017). Impact of land use change on flower-visiting insect communities on an oceanic island. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 10 (3), 211-223 pdf
25. BORGES, P.A.V., AMORIM, I.R., TERZOPOULOU, S., RIGAL, F., EMERSON, B. & SERRANO, A.R.M. (2017). Cryptic diversity in Azorean beetle genus Tarphius Erichson, 1845 (Coleoptera: Zopheridae): An integrative taxonomic approach with description of four new species. Zootaxa. 4236 (3), 401–449 pdf
24. BORREGAARD, M.K., AMORIM, I.R., BORGES, P.A.V., CABRAL, J., FERNANDEZ-PALACIOS, J.M., FIELD, R., HEANEY, L.R., KREFT, H., MATTHEWS, T.J., OLESEN, J.M., PRICE, J., RIGAL, F., STEINBAUER, M., TRIANTIS, K.A., VALENTE, L. &WHITTAKER, R.J. (2017). Oceanic island biogeography through the lens of the General Dynamic Model: assessment and prospect. Biological reviews. 92 (2), 830-853 pdf
23. BORGES, P.A.V., GASPAR, C., CRESPO, L., RIGAL, F., CARDOSO, P., PEREIRA, F., REGO, C., AMORIM, I.R., MELO, C., AGUIAR, C., ANDRE, G., MENDONÇA, E., RIBEIRO, S.P., HORTAL, J., SANTOS, A.M., BARCELOS, L., ENGHOFF, H., MAHNERT, V., PITA, M.T., RIBES, J., BAZ, A., SOUSA, A.B., VIEIRA, V., WUNDERLICH, J., PARMAKELIS, A., WHITTAKER, R.A., QUARTAU, J.A., SERRANO, A.R.M. & TRIANTIS, K.A. (2016). New records and detailed distribution and abundance of selected arthropod species collected between 1999 and 2011 in Azorean native forests. Biodiversity Data Journal. 4: e10948 pdf
22. FLORENCIO, M., RIGAL, F., BORGES, P.A.V., CARDOSO, P., SANTOS, A.M.C. & LOBO, J.M. (2016). The role of plant fidelity and land-use changes on island exotic and indigenous canopy spiders at local and regional scales. Biological invasions. 18 (8), 2309-2324 pdf
21. TRIANTIS, K.A.*, RIGAL, F.*, PARENT, C., CAMERON, R.A.D., LENZNER, B., PARMAKELIS, A., YEUNG, M.W., IBÁÑEZ, M., ALONSO, M.R., DE FRIAS MARTINS, A.M., TEIXEIRA, D.N.F., GRIFFITHS, O.L., YANES, Y., HAYES, K.A., PREECE, R.C., & COWIE, R.H. (2016). Discordance between morphological and taxonomical diversity: land snails of oceanic archipelagos. Journal of Biogeography. 43 (10), 2050–2061 *Equal contribution pdf
20. MATTHEWS, T.J., TRIANTIS, K.A., RIGAL, F., GUILHAUMON, F., BORREGAARD, M.K. & WHITTAKER, R.J. (2016). Island species–area relationships and species–accumulation curves are not equivalent: a synthetic analysis of habitat island datasets. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25,
607-618 pdf
19. FATTORINI, S., RIGAL, F., CARDOSO, P. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2016). Using species abundance distribution models and diversity indices for biogeographical analyses. Acta Oecologica. 70, 21-28 pdf
18. NUNES, R., GABRIEL R., ELIAS, R.B., RIGAL, F., SOARES, A.O., CARDOSO, P. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2015). Arthropods and other Biota associated with Azorean Trees & Shrubs: Juniperus brevifolia. Arquipélago Life and Marine Sciences, 32, 19-48 pdf
17. RIQUELME, C. *, RIGAL, F. *, HATHAWAY, J.J.M., NORTHUP, D.E. BORGES, P.A.V., GABRIEL, R., AMORIM, I.R. & DAPKEVICIUS M.L.N.E. (2015). Cave microbial community composition in oceanic islands: disentangling the effect of different colored mats in diversity patterns of Azorean lava tubes. FEMS Microbial Ecology. 91(12) *Equal contribution pdf
16. PARMAKELIS, A., RIGAL, F., MOURIKIS, A., BALANIKA, K., TERZOPOULOU, S., REGO, C., TRIANTIS, A. K., WHITTAKER, R.J. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2015). Comparative phylogeography of endemic Azorean arthropods. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15:250 pdf
15. CARVALHO, J.C., CARDOSO, P., RIGAL, F., TRIANTIS, K.A. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2015). Modelling directional spatio-temporal processes in island biogeography. Ecology and Evolution. 5 (20) 4671–4682 pdf
14. TERZOPOULOU, S., RIGAL, F., WHITTAKER, R.J., BORGES, P.A.V. & TRIANTIS, K.A. (2015). Drivers of extinction: the case of Azorean beetles. Biology Letters. 11(6) 20150273 pdf
13. CARDOSO, P., RIGAL, F. & CARVALHO, J.C. (2015). Biodiversity Assessment Tools, an R package for the measurement and estimation of alpha and beta taxon, phylogenetic and functional diversity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 6, 232-236 pdf (R package BAT)
12. WHITTAKER, R.J., RIGAL, F., BORGES, P.A.V., CARDOSO, P., TERZOPOULOU, S., CASANOVES, F., PLA, L., GUILHAUMON, F., LADLE, R.J. & TRIANTIS, K.A. (2014). Functional biogeography of oceanic islands and scaling of functional diversity in the Azores. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 111 (38) 13709–13714 pdf See special issue on functional biogeography
11. MATTHEWS, T.J., BORREGAARD, M.K., UGLAND, K.I., BORGES, P.A.V., RIGAL, F., CARDOSO, P., & WHITTAKER, R.J. (2014). The gambin model provides a superior fit to species abundance distributions with a single free parameter: evidence, implementation and interpretation. Ecography. 37 (10) 1002-1011 pdf
10. CARDOSO, P., RIGAL, F., BORGES, P.A.V. & CARVALHO, J.C. (2014) A new frontier in biodiversity inventory: a proposal for estimators of phylogenetic and functional diversity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 5, 452-461 pdf
9. CARDOSO, P., RIGAL, F., CARVALHO, J.C., FORTELIUS, M., GASPAR, C., BORGES, P.A.V. PODANI, J. & SCHMERA, D. (2014) Partitioning taxon, phylogenetic and functional beta diversity into replacement and richness difference components. Journal of Biogeography. 41 749-761 pdf
8. KOTSAKIOZI, P., RIGAL, F., VALAKOS, E. & PARMAKELIS, A. (2013). Decomposing the effects of intra-species variability, phylogeny, space and climate on the evolution of shell morphology: insights from the Greek endemic land snail genus Codringtonia Kobelt 1898 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Helicidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 110 (4) 796-813 pdf
7. PARMAKELIS, A., BALANIKA, K., TERZOPOULOU, S., RIGAL, F., BEASLEY, R.R., JONES, K.L., LANCE, S.L., WHITTAKER, R.J., TRIANTIS, K.A. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2013). Development of 28 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the endemic Azorean spider Sancus acoreensis (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Conservation Genetic resources. 5 (4) 1133-1134 pdf
6. CARDOSO, P.*, RIGAL, F.*, FATTORINI, S. TERZOPOULOU, S. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2013). Integrating landscape disturbance and indicator species in spatial conservation analysis. Plos ONE 8(5): e63294. pdf *Equal contribution
5. RIGAL, F., WHITTAKER, R.J., TRIANTIS, K.A. & BORGES, P.A.V (2013). Integration of non-indigenous species within the interspecific abundance– occupancy relationship. Acta Oecologica. 48 :69-75 pdf
4. MORTILLARO, J-M, RIGAL, F., RYBARCZYK, H., BERNARDES, M., ABRIL, G. & MEZIANE, T. (2012) Particulate organic matter distribution along the Lower Amazon River: addressing aquatic ecology concepts using fatty acids. PloS ONE 7(9): e46141. pdf
3. FATTORINI, S., CARDOSO, P., RIGAL, F. & BORGES, P.A.V. (2012) Use of Arthropod rarity for area prioritisation: Insights from the Azorean Islands. PLoS ONE 7(3) e33995. pdf
2. RIGAL, F., VIARD, F., AYATA, SD., & COMTET, T. (2010) Does larval supply explain the low proliferation of the invasive gastropod Crepidula fornicata in a tidal estuary? Biological Invasions. 12(9) 3171-3186. pdf
1. RIGAL F., CHEVALIER T., NEBEL C., CHARMANTIER G., TOMASINI J-A, AUJOULAT F. & BERREBI P. (2008). Osmoregulation as a potential factor for the differential distribution of two cryptic gobiid species, Pomatoschistus microps and P. marmoratus in French Mediterranean lagoons. Scientia Marina. 72(3) 469-476. pdf
