Detecting areas of endemism with a taxonomically diverse data set: plants,mammals, reptiles,amphibians, birds,and insects from Argentina |
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| Authors: | Claudia Szumik Lone Aagesen Dolores Casagranda Vanesa Arzamendia Diego Baldo Lucía E Claps Fabiana Cuezzo Juan M Díaz Gómez Adrián Di Giacomo Alejandro Giraudo Pablo Goloboff Cecilia Gramajo Cecilia Kopuchian Sonia Kretzschmar Mercedes Lizarralde Alejandra Molina Marcos Mollerach Fernando Navarro Soledad Nomdedeu Adela Panizza Verónica V Pereyra María Sandoval Gustavo Scrocchi Fernando O Zuloaga |
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| Institution: | 1. Instituto Superior de Entomología (INSUE‐CONICET), Miguel Lillo 205, 4000 Tucumán, Argentina;2. Instituto de Botánica Darwinion (CONICET‐ANCEFN), Labarden 200, CC22, San Isidro, B1642HYD Buenos Aires, Argentina;3. Instituto Nacional de Limnología (CONICET‐UNL), Ciudad Universitaria, El Pozo s/n, 3016 Santa Fe, Argentina;4. Instituto de Herpetología (FML), Miguel Lillo 251, 4000 Tucumán, Argentina;5. Instituto de Bio y Geociencias (IBIGEO), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Mendoza 2, 4400 Salta, Argentina;6. Laboratorio de Ecología y Comportamiento Animal (FCEN‐UBA), Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EHA Buenos Aires, Argentina;7. División Entomología (FML), Miguel Lillo 251, 4000 Tucumán, Argentina;8. División Ornitología (MACN), Av. Angel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR Buenos Aires, Argentina;9. Programa de investigaciones en Biodiversidad Argentina (PIDBA‐FCN), Miguel Lillo 205, 4000 Tucumán, Argentina |
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| Abstract: | The idea of an area of endemism implies that different groups of plants and animals should have largely coincident distributions. This paper analyses an area of 1152 000 km2, between parallels 21 and 32°S and meridians 70 and 53°W to examine whether a large and taxonomically diverse data set actually displays areas supported by different groups. The data set includes the distribution of 805 species of plants (45 families), mammals (25 families), reptiles (six families), amphibians (five families), birds (18 families), and insects (30 families), and is analysed with the optimality criterion (based on the notion of endemism) implemented in the program NDM/VNDM. Almost 50% of the areas obtained are supported by three or more major groups; areas supported by fewer major groups generally contain species from different genera, families, or orders. © The Willi Hennig Society 2011. |
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