Coastal grassland vegetation records from São Miguel Island (Azores) and Mainland Portugal

Preprint ARPHA Preprints https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e173564 (30 Sep 2025) https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e173564 (30 Sep 2025) Published in: Biodiversity Data Journal https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e173529 Other versions: - Preprint InfoPreprint Info - CiteCite - MetricsMetrics - CommentComment - RelatedRelated - CitedCited ARPHA Preprints doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e173564 First posted 30 Sep 2025 Authors Hugo Renato Renato Calado - Corresponding author University of the Azores, cE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group, CHANGE – Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculty of Science and Technology, Rua da Mãe de Deus, 9500-321 Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal University of the Azores, cE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group, CHANGE – Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculty of Science and Technology, Rua da Mãe de Deus, 9500-321 Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal Centre for Functional Ecology, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456, Coimbra, Portugal University of Azores, CE3C—Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Azorean Biodiversity Group, CHANGE —Global Change and Sustainability Institute, School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Rua Capitão João d’Ávila, Pico da Urze, 9700-042, Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal IUCN SSC Monitoring Specialist Group, Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal Conflict of interest The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Supporting agencies H.R.M.G.C. was funded by the Regional FRCT Ph.D. Grant M3.1.a/F/012/2021: Phenotypic Plasticity of Pest and Biological Control Agents: Contrasting Mainland and Insular Coastal Ecosystems. AOS and PAVB were also funded by FCT through national and European funds by UID/00329/2023 - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (CE3C), and by the Regional Directorate for Science, Innovation and Development [Regional Government of the Azores] through the PROSCIENTIA Incentive System M1.1.A/FUNC.UI&D/021/2025 [UI&D/GBA/2025]. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.