Biodiversity patterns and continental insularity in the tropical High Andes

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F14%3A43887323" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/14:43887323 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1657/1938-4246-46.4.811" target="_blank" >http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1657/1938-4246-46.4.811</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1657/1938-4246-46.4.811" target="_blank" >10.1657/1938-4246-46.4.811</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Biodiversity patterns and continental insularity in the tropical High Andes
Original language description
Alpine areas of the tropical Andes constitute the largest of all tropical alpine regions worldwide. They experience a particularly harsh climate, and they are fragmented into tropical alpine islands at various spatial scales. These factors generate unique patterns of continental insularity, whose impacts on biodiversity remain to be examined precisely. By reviewing existing literature and by presenting unpublished data on beta-diversity and endemism for a wide array of taxonomic groups, we aimed at providing a clear, overall picture of the isolation-biodiversity relationship in the tropical alpine environments of the Andes. Our analyses showed that (1) taxa with better dispersal capacities and wider distributions (e.g., grasses and birds) were less restricted to alpine areas at local scale; (2) similarity among communities decreased with spatial distance between isolated alpine areas; and (3) endemism reached a peak in small alpine areas strongly isolated from main alpine islands. Thes
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EH - Ecology - communities
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/LM2010009" target="_blank" >LM2010009: CzechPolar ? Czech Polar Stations: Construction and management</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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