Aim: To assess the distributional patterns of fruit-feeding butterfly species richness in Atlantic Forest (AF) based on stack species distribution models (SSDM); to evaluate the relative contribution of climate and landscape ...

In the present study, we test whether large-scale patterns of estuarine nematodes are predicted by the “everything is everywhere” (EiE) hypothesis or by the moderate endemicity hypothesis (MEH). Specifically, we tested ...

SUMMARY 1. Shallow lakes and ponds contribute disproportionally to species richness relative to other aquatic ecosystems. In-lake conditions (e.g. presence of submerged plants) seem to play a key role in determining ...

Abstract Background Latitudinal and altitudinal patterns of plant species richness have frequently been related to different climate variables such as precipitation, ...

Trentepohliales is one of the most diverse and abundant algal group of the terrestrial microflora in tropical regions; however, information about composition, richness and distribution of these algae in Neotropical regions ...

It has been suggested for some taxa from the northern hemisphere, that body size and geographic range width, decrease from the poles to the Ecuador, where species richness increases. In this paper, the existence of latitudinal ...

Abstract Background Several particular aspects of diversity patterns of Chilean littoral fishes are still poorly understood, and existing studies within this scope are ...

We analyze the geographic distribution pattern of Chilean amphibian and reptile species between 18°20′S (Arica) to 56°S (Magellanic Area) by the identification of centers of higher richness and endemism and we infer the ...