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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.
For example, the Neotropical realm is divided into Central America and Southern America. One Earth utilizes these 14 realm divisions – further divided into 52 habitable subrealms, 185 bioregions, and 844 ecoregions – as a framework to better understand the natural world that surrounds us.
Biogeographic regionalization of the Neotropical region: New map and shapefile. An Acad Bras Cienc (2022) 94 (1): e20211167. DOI 10.1590/0001-3765202220211167. Thanks to Manuel Barrios-Izás, Elián Leandro Guerrero, José Carlos Guerrero and Thelma María Mejía Ordóñez for providing helpful advice.
Well-known examples are the Galápagos Islands, which in part inspired Darwin’s evolutionary theory; the Panama Isthmus, the passage that promoted the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI); the Amazon basin, one of the largest forests and biodiversity reservoirs on Earth; and the Andes, where Humboldt found inspiration for his theory on ...
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 ...
tropical biogeography is well written, has clear and useful figures and maps, and contains a wealth of information that will be of use to researchers as a starting point for their studies of organisms in various neotropical regions, especially if one is interested in patterns. This
