Determinants of orchid species diversity in Latin America

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/16:10336652

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/lank.v16i2.26013" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/lank.v16i2.26013</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/lank.v16i2.26013" target="_blank" >10.15517/lank.v16i2.26013</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Determinants of orchid species diversity in Latin America

Original language description

Area and latitude are thought to be the most important determinants of species richness. The relativenimportance of these two factors was recently tested, using data on orchid species diversity in various countriesnin the world and it was found that size of the country (or of the protected areas within the country) is a betterndeterminant of species diversity in orchids than latitude. On the other hand, literature data indicate that in manyngroups species richness is also heavily dependent on habitat diversity as expressed by the range of altitudes innthe region considered. Here we analyze the species richness data for various countries in Latin America, usingnthe above-mentioned altitudinal amplitude as a proxy. Habitat diversity played a role in tropical, but not inntemperate countries. The reason may indicate that in the temperate countries only few orchid species grow innhigher elevations, so an increase of altitudinal range of habitats there does not entail a corresponding increasenof species richness there. Thus, especially in the tropics, efforts should be directed to preservation of protectednareas in all altitudes, rather than to increase of existing reserve size only in areas that are not attractive for humanndevelopment.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EF - Botany

OECD FORD branch

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Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Lankesteriana

ISSN

1409-3871

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CR - COSTA RICA

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

293-297

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84994689575