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Dewan S, Sanders NJ, Acharya BK. Turnover in butterfly communities and traits along an elevational gradient in the eastern Himalaya, India. Ecosphere 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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- Sailendra Dewan
- Department of Zoology, School of Life Sciences Sikkim University Gangtok Sikkim India
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Michigan Ann Arbor Michigan USA
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- Department of Zoology, School of Life Sciences Sikkim University Gangtok Sikkim India
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Raven PH, Gereau RE, Phillipson PB, Chatelain C, Jenkins CN, Ulloa Ulloa C. The distribution of biodiversity richness in the tropics. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:eabc6228. [PMID: 32917691 PMCID: PMC11206443 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc6228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2020] [Accepted: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
We compare the numbers of vascular plant species in the three major tropical areas. The Afrotropical Region (Africa south of the Sahara Desert plus Madagascar), roughly equal in size to the Latin American Region (Mexico southward), has only 56,451 recorded species (about 170 being added annually), as compared with 118,308 recorded species (about 750 being added annually) in Latin America. Southeast Asia, only a quarter the size of the other two tropical areas, has approximately 50,000 recorded species, with an average of 364 being added annually. Thus, Tropical Asia is likely to be proportionately richest in plant diversity, and for biodiversity in general, for its size. In the animal groups we reviewed, the patterns of species diversity were mostly similar except for mammals and butterflies. Judged from these relationships, Latin America may be home to at least a third of global biodiversity.
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- Peter H Raven
- Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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- Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
- Institut de Systématique, Évolution, et Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université des Antilles, C.P. 39, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France
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- Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève, ch. de l'Impératrice 1, C.P. 71, 1292 Chambésy, Switzerland
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- IPÊ-Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas, Rod. Dom Pedro 1 km 47, Nazaré Paulista, São Paulo 12960, Brazil
- Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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HOLLOWAY JD. Mobile organisms in a geologically complex area: Lepidoptera in the Indo-Australian tropics. Zool J Linn Soc 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1982.tb02187.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Holloway JD. Macrolepidoptera diversity in the Indo-Australian tropics: geographic, biotopic and taxonomic variations. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1987.tb00306.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BRABY MICHAELF, PIERCE NAOMIE, VILA ROGER. Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the subtribe Aporiina (Lepidoptera: Pieridae): implications for the origin of Australian butterflies. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00732.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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