Species richness and floristic composition of choco region plant communities

The Chocó phytogeographical region of coastal Colombia and adjacent Ecuador is well known as a region of unusually high endemism in plants (GENTRY, 1982a, 1986b), birds (TERBORGH and amp; WINTER, 1982), and butterflies (BROWN, 1975, 1982). The region is also reputed to be unusually diverse biologica...

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Autor: Gentry, Alwyn H.
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1986
País:Colombia
Recursos:Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:Repositorio UN
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/44701
Acesso em linha:https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/44701
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/34800/
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Botánica
Zoología
Ecología
Biodiversidad
Conservación
Arqueología
Ciencias Naturales
Historia Natural
Paleobotánica
Paleozoología
Ornitología
Composición florística
Fitogeografía
Endemismo
Heliconiinae
Mariposas
Diversidad
Descrição
Resumo:The Chocó phytogeographical region of coastal Colombia and adjacent Ecuador is well known as a region of unusually high endemism in plants (GENTRY, 1982a, 1986b), birds (TERBORGH and amp; WINTER, 1982), and butterflies (BROWN, 1975, 1982). The region is also reputed to be unusually diverse biologically (GENTRY, 1978, 1982a) but much of the data base for this assumption is rather anecdotal and for birds and heliconiinae butterflies (probably the best known groups of organisms) it is clear that faunistic community diversity of the coastal Chocó is substantially less than in much of upper Amazonia (J. TERBORGH, pers. comm., K. BROWN, pers. comm.).