Oecozona neotropica

Oecozona neotropica est una ex octo oecozonis quae superficiem Telluris dividunt. Oecoregiones terrestres ambarum Americarum et totam zonam tropicam et temperatam Americae Australis.

Oecozona neotropica

Ordo Mundi Naturae Tuendae seu WWF duodecim oecoregiones neotropicas definit:

1. Greater Antillean Moist Forests (silvae humidae Antillarum Maiorum)
2. Talamancan and Isthmian Pacific Forests (silvae Pacificae Talamancae et Isthmi Panamensis)
3. Chocó-Darién Moist Forests (silvae humidae Chocó et Darién)
4. Northern Andean Montane Forests (silvae montanae Andium borealium)
5. Coastal Venezuela Montane Forests (silvae montanae Venetiolae litoralis)
6. Guianan Moist Forests (silvae humidae Guianarum)
7. Napo Moist Forests (silvae humidae Napo)
8. Río Negro-Juruá Moist Forests (silvae humidae fluminum Nigri et Juruá
9. Guayanan Highlands Forests (silvae montanae Guianarum)
10. Central Andean Yungas (Yungae Andium mediarum)
11. Southwestern Amazonian Moist Forests (silvae humidae Amazoniae australo-occidentalis)
12. Atlantic Forests (silvae Atlanticae)

Bibliographia

• Alexandre Antonelli, Isabel Sanmartín, "Why are there so many plant species in the Neotropics?" in Taxon vol. 60 (2011) pp. 403-414 JSTOR
• Alwyn H. Gentry, "Neotropical Floristic Diversity: Phytogeographical Connections Between Central and South America, Pleistocene Climatic Fluctuations, or an Accident of the Andean Orogeny?" in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden vol. 69 (1982) pp. 557-593 JSTOR
• Federico Luebert, "The two South American dry diagonals" in Frontiers of Biogeography vol. 13 (2021) e51267
• Andrea S. Meseguer et al., "Diversification dynamics in the Neotropics through time, clades, and biogeographic regions" in eLife vol. 11 (2022) e74503
• Thadeu Sobral-Souza, Matheus S. Lima-Ribeiro, Vera Nisaka Solferini, "Biogeography of Neotropical Rainforests: past connections between Amazon and Atlantic Forest detected by ecological niche modeling" in Evolutionary Ecology (2015)

Nexus externi

• BBC Nature - Neotropical videos, news and facts: nuntii de oecozona neotropica apud BBC
• Roger Maia Dias Ledo, Guarino Rinaldi Colli, "The historical connections between the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest revisited" in Journal of Biogeography vol. 44 (2017)
• Christopher E. Doughty et al., "Megafauna extinction, tree species range reduction, and carbon storage in Amazonian forests" in Ecography vol. 39 (2016) pp. 194–203

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