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In biogeography, the Neotropic or Neotropical realm is one of the eight terrestrial realms. This realm includes South America, Central America, the Caribbean islands, and southern North America.
The Neotropical region is defined as encompassing Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, including various habitat types like lakes, wetlands, rivers, and floodplains, with diverse climates ranging from tropical to temperate.
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.
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).
Northern America contains the majority of the Nearctic realm, spanning from southern Canada to northern Mexico and containing six subrealms as defined in the One Earth Bioregions Framework—Northeast American Forests, Southeast US Savannas, Great Plains, American West, Mexican Drylands, and North Pacific Coast—containing 22 bioregions in ...
21 paź 2021 · Neotropical biodiversity has been in the making for at least 100 My, accumulating since the separation of South America from Africa. If that was our 24-hour watch to measure events against, the arrival of humans to the Neotropics took place only in the last 15 seconds before midnight.
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).
