Historical dynamics and current environmental effects explain the spatial distribution of species richness patterns of New World monkeys

Background Why biodiversity is not uniformly distributed on the Earth is a major research question of biogeography. One of the most striking patterns of disparity in species distribution are the biodiversity hotspots, which generally do not fit with the distribution of relevant components of the Neo...

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Main Authors: Paulo Vallejos-Garrido, Reinaldo Rivera, Oscar Inostroza-Michael, Enrique Rodríguez-Serrano, Cristián E. Hernández
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2017-09-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/3850.pdf