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The Neotropical region contains South America and Middle America. It is the most speciose region of the world in terms of freshwater fishes, with 63 families, more than 6400 described species, and current estimated of around 9000 species (Reis et al., 2016), with many species remaining to be discovered and described.
- Family Simuliidae
The family Simuliidae in the Neotropical Region has more...
- Order Lepidoptera
The associations between species of tortricids from the...
- Family Simuliidae
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Neotropical region, one of the six major biogeographic areas of the world defined on the basis of its characteristic animal life. It extends south from the Mexican desert into South America as far as the subantarctic zone.
Biogeographic region - Neotropical, Flora, Fauna: Essentially the Neotropical kingdom covers all but the extreme southern tip and southwestern strip of South America; Central America; Mexico, excluding the dry north and centre; and beyond to the West Indies and the southern tip of Florida (Figure 1). The vegetation ranges from tropical ...
13 kwi 2022 · The Neotropics, following the most common definition, comprise the tropical areas of the American continent from Mexico to Argentina (Morrone, 2017) and encompass the largest number of described species in the world, accounting for almost one third of global biodiversity (Raven et al., 2020).
29 wrz 2021 · We assigned extant species to nine biogeographic regions: western Nearctic, eastern Nearctic, western Palearctic, eastern Palearctic, Neotropics, Afrotropics, India, Southeast Asia, and...
21 paź 2021 · The ten major threats to the 37 214 Neotropical species assessed to date. Numbers within boxes indicate species considered to be affected by each threat. Colours indicate broad classes of threats: orange: activities primarily linked to land use change; blue: exploitation; green: pests and pathogens; red: environmental.
