[PDF] Top 20 The Macaronesian province: patterns of species richness and endemism of arthropods

... on the patterns of diversification of these groups it is tempting to postulate that oceanic island chains not only operate as an array of stepping stones for colonization processes, but ... See full document

... Wallacea and the West Indies to occupy less suitable climate niches – depressing their abundances – and contracted their geographic range within islands, but without causing a significant number ... See full document

... The endemism rate of some distinctive groups: Gastropods – in the Campos Basin (22°30’S) and in Ubatuba (23°30’S), the endemic species of constitute respectively ... See full document

... reveal the particularities of the Azorean biota, a highly impoverished version of some of the Macaronesian elements found in the distant ...mainland. ... See full document

... advantages of the complementary use of suction sampling (Vortis) and pitfall trapping in estimating the species richness of arthropods in sown and ... See full document

... portions of the Amazon Basin remain undersampled and the checklists provided were mostly based in the recognition of morphospecies, a situation that severely limits the ... See full document

... ranges of coastal cephalopod species were investigated, on a global scale, by means of an exhaustive survey of primary literature ...on the most recent FAO guides on the ... See full document

... Among the species that are present at downstream areas, Hoplias malabaricus, Prochilodus platensis, Cyphocharax boga, Cyprinus carpio and Gymnogeophagus australis, aggregate in the plains from ... See full document

... increase of biodiversity following island ...for the study of evolution- ary, ecological and ecosystems processes (Vitousek et ...character and their depauperated and disharmonic ... See full document

... amount of environmental heterogeneity at both local and regional ...consists of a mosaic of different vegetation types, ranging from open grasslands to dense woodlands and dry ... See full document

... on the Macaronesian archipelagos ...Islands and Cape Verde) which belong to the Mediterranean Basin biodiversity hotspot, the second largest hotspot in the ...area, the ... See full document

... Hogna and Scotognapha, among others). The woodlouse- hunter genus Dysdera, and the Pholcidae genera Pholcus and Spermophorides, are by far the best-known examples, thanks to ... See full document

... another, the two reserves differed considerably in terms of species richness and ...to the fact that the two fragments have suffered distinct patterns of ... See full document

... area of endemism for many fish groups, the result of a formidable geographical barrier, until recently formed by the Sete Quedas waterfall, now submerged by the Itaipú Reservoir ... See full document

... Among the patterns of geographic distribution proposed for the flora of campos rupestres by Giulietti & Pirani (1988), one specific pattern can be highlighted, that comprising ... See full document

... examine the concordance of richness and endemism patterns in five animal taxa (butterflies, birds, mammals, reptiles, and ...levels of species ... See full document

... sets of geographical and environmental variables ...climatic and anthropogenic) that are able to explain a reasonably high proportion of the variability of the endemic ... See full document

... 19 species with more than five records ...inerme and E. vittula were not modeled, although they are considered in the discussion) with Maxent ...temperature of warmest month, minimum ... See full document

... 1983), of which the most recent is followed ...indicated the existence of two main plateaus that encompass an extension of approximately 500 km: the Northern Plateau and ... See full document

... is the preference of using low order (= short distance) expressions of spatial struc- ture, in which close localities are more heavily weighted, when compared to distant ...that the AIC values ... See full document