The breadth of the Mexican Transition Zone as defined by its flowering plant generic flora. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 Biogeographic regions are defined by taxa with similar distribution patterns. Flowering plants have been widely used to propose biogeographic regionalization schemes because of shared historical or ecological factors that determine their distribution ...
Villaseñor José Luis +3 more
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The Biotic Assembly of the Mexican Transition Zone
Ecography, 2020 The biota of the Mexican Transition Zone was assembled through the successive dispersal of four cenocrons from North and South America and their incorporation to the Paleoamerican biota, which was the original North American (Holarctic) biota that extended in Mexico in the Jurassic-Cretaceous.
Juan J. Morrone
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Sixty years of Halffter’s Mexican Transition Zone: a systematic review using bibliometric tools [PDF]
Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2023 The Mexican Transition Zone (MTZ) has become a key concept that has promoted the consolidation of an integrative field of research. We reviewed the scientific publications on the MTZ with bibliometric tools to detect trends through time and analyze the ...
Margarita M. López-García +1 more
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Environmental drivers of Odonate assemblages across biogeographic provinces in the Mexican Transition Zone [PDF]
Biodiversity Data JournalThis study shows how the different environments and biogeographical provinces in the Mexican Transition Zone influence the structure of odonate communities.
Josué Silva-Hurtado +4 more
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Niche conservatism and convergence in birds of three cenocrons in the Mexican Transition Zone [PDF]
PeerJBackground The niche conservatism hypothesis postulates that physiological and phylogenetic factors constrain species distributions, creating richness hotspots with older lineages in ancestral climatic conditions.
Viridiana Lizardo +2 more
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Thermal Tolerance of Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) Changes Across an Elevation Gradient in the Mexican Transition Zone [PDF]
SociobiologyThe objective of this study was to determine the critical thermal minimum [CTmin], critical thermal maximum [CTmax], and thermal tolerance range of A. mellifera at three different elevations located in the Mexican Transition Zone: 11; 1,324, and 3,304 m ...
José Benito Barreiro +4 more
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Zoologica ScriptaAbstractThe Mexican Transition Zone is a biogeographically complex area where old and new lineages of Neotropical and Nearctic affinities overlap. Its biota was assembled by successive dispersal events of cenocrons, which are sets of taxa that dispersed during a given time interval from both North and South America and then diversified in the area. The
Juan J. Morrone +2 more
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SociobiologyAlthough ecologists have identified the key factors influencing species distribution along elevation gradients, each mountain’s distinct characteristics, including its geology and biotic colonization processes, are often overlooked.
Pedro Luna +3 more
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Distribution of Phloeosinus tacubayae Hopkins, 1905 (Curculionidae, Scolytinae), the Cypress Bark Beetle, and new records from potential distribution models [PDF]
Check List, 2022 We evaluated the biotic and abiotic conditions related to the presence of Phloeosinus tacubayae Hopkins, 1905, to update its distribution and explore new areas to collect the species from potential distribution models and establish its host range.
Montserrat Cervantes-Espinoza +6 more
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Amphibian areas of endemism: A conservation priority in the threatened Mexican cloud forest [PDF]
Vertebrate Zoology, 2022 Amphibians of the Mexican Cloud Forest have a great diversity but are highly threatened. Forest endemisms are useful for recognizing biodiversity hotspots; furthermore, the interaction of historical and current events has generated areas of endemism that
Gustavo Montiel Canales +1 more
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