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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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.
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The phylogeography of the cycad genus Dioon (Zamiaceae) clarifies its Cenozoic expansion and diversification in the Mexican transition zone [PDF]
Annals of Botany, 2018 Biogeographic transition zones are promising areas to study processes of biogeographic evolution and its influence on biological groups. The Mexican transition zone originated due to the overlap of Nearctic and Neotropical biota, which promoted great biological diversification. However, since most previous studies in this area were focused on revealing
JOSÉ Said Gutiérrez-Ortega +2 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, Morrone Juan J
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Sixty years of Halffter’s Mexican Transition Zone: a systematic review using bibliometric tools
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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Molecular clocks, biogeography and species diversity in Herichthys with evaluation of the role of Punta del Morro as a vicariant brake along the Mexican Transition Zone in the context of local and global time frame of cichlid diversification [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Using molecular dated phylogenies and biogeographic reconstructions, the species diversity, biogeography and time frame of evolution of the genus Herichthys were evaluated.
Fabian Pérez-Miranda +3 more
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Unravelling high insect diversity and community turnover along a tropical-temperate elevation gradient: A metabarcoding approach. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe transition zone between the Nearctic and Neotropical biogeographic regions is one of the most species-rich areas of North America, known as the Mexican Transition Zone. We sampled mobile insects along a 2000 m elevational gradient for 13 months using
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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
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Exploration of the distribution and host range of Phloeosinus deleoni Blackman (Curculionidae, Scolytinae) through collection records, field collections and modelling of potential distribution [PDF]
Biodiversity Data JournalPhloeosinus deleoni Blackman, 1942 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) is a bark beetle for which limited information exists regarding its ecology, distribution and host range.
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