Biogeographic Crossroads as Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation

By S. Spector. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology

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Ecotones: Marginal or Central Areas of Transition? (2006, background): “At the community level, there is some evidence for high species richness in boundary regions (e.g., Rusek, 1992; Zalewski et al., 2001a,b; Spector, 2002).”
From climate change predictions to actions – conserving vulnerable animal groups in hotspots at a regional scale (2010, background): “…richness in this area is also influenced by the climatic heterogeneity, as the climate transition between Atlantic and Mediterranean allows the cooccurrence of species with African and Euro-Siberian affinities, which means that the Iberian Peninsula is a biogeographic crossroad (Spector, 2002).”
Trap Spacing and Transect Design for Dung Beetle Biodiversity Studies 1 (2005, background): “Tropical dung beetle communities are usually very abundant and show high Alpha, Beta, and Gamma diversity (Hanski 1989, Spector 2002).”
Conservation Biogeography: assessment and prospect (2005, background): “Paradoxically, some authors argue that reserves should indeed be located in areas of transition (Smith et al., 2001; Spector, 2002) because this is where species’ adaptation to future environmental changes is more likely.”
Scarabaeine Dung Beetles (coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): An Invertebrate Focal Taxon for Biodiversity Research and Conservation (2006, background): “High Gamma, Beta, and Alpha diversity across sites is generally the norm, particularly in the tropics (Spector 2002).”
Potential distribution modelling, niche characterization and conservation status assessment using GIS tools: A case study of Iberian Copris species (2005, background): “Areas of faunistic replacement and range-margins are of great importance for the survival of most species (Spector, 2002) where important processes occur (Thomas et al., 2001), specially when faced with climate change (Hill et al., 2002).”
Patterns of functional diversity across an extensive environmental gradient: vertebrate consumers, hidden treatments and latitudinal trends (2003, background): “For example, because species composition changes rapidly in areas of biogeographical intersection (Spector 2002), rapid changes in functional diversity are likely to be greatest within such areas of transition (i.e. between temperate and subtropical zones).”
Butterfly species richness in mainland Portugal: predictive models of geographic distribution patterns (2004, background): “However, biogeographic crossroads are important for conservation policies (Spector 2002), and this region has been identified as an endemicity area for diverse, independent groups of plants and animals (Martı́n et al. 2000, Garcı́a-Barros et al. 2002).”
Benefits of Conservation of Plant Genetic Diversity to Arthropod Diversity (2005, background): “For example, hybrid zones are analogous to biogeographic crossroads (Spector 2002) because, where multiple cross types converge, arthropod diversity is greatest.”
Biological Indicator Systems in Floodplains – a Review (2006, background): “This approach requires that the different groups either depend on each other or they are driven by a similar set of environmental factors such as disturbance regime (MCINTYRE et al., 1999), edaphic factors (CODY, 1986), or the biogeographic history (SPECTOR, 2002).”
Network isolation and local diversity in neutral metacommunities (2010, background): “These offer a neutral hypothesis for biogeographic mixing zones (Spector 2002), instead of an overlap in environments, certain transitional areas may occur due to geometric effects, those patches that connect disparate portions of the network will receive a mix of species from the two areas.”
How can a knowledge of the past help to conserve the future? Biodiversity conservation and the relevance of long-term ecological studies (2007, background): “These include ecoregions (Olson et al. 2001), biogeographic crossroads ( Spector 2002 ) and hotspots (e.g.”