Six annotated lists are presented: A, a checklist of the butterf ies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) of Tobago (150 species); B, species for which there are no records in the last 80 years (49 species); C, species needing confirmation from Tobago (5 species); D, species not accepted from Tobago (12 species); E, species which are likely to occur in Tob...
Resumen Antecedentes: La distribución de los corales del Pacífico Oriental está bien caracterizada, sin embargo prospecciones de campo siguen arro jando nuevos registros geográficos de los taxa. Objetivos: Presentar una recopilación detallada de las zonas de presencia del coral Pocillopora inflata, en México, aportar observaciones que extienden su ...
Resumen: El endemismo es un concepto comúnmente usado para identificar a taxones nativos o grupos biológicos con área de distribución restringida. Sin embargo, el endemismo tiene diferentes interpretaciones de acuerdo a la aproximación usada para los análisis biogeográficos (ecológico o histórico). Los múltiples usos del endemismo han llevado a pro...
The study is carried out in a mountainous area from South of Spain (Faraján, province of Málaga). The landscape shows a very high spatially and temporally dynamic of land uses, similar to other Mediterranean mountainous regions, where interacts physical and human factors. The land uses and vegetation cover, and especially the chestnut orchards, wer...
Home gardens are heterogeneous agroecosystems in structure and management, in which in-situ biodiversity conservation processes are maintained. The flora in the gardens is varied; their study contributes to understanding the species that coexist and are conserved, in addition to understanding the structure, importance, and functions for families in...
RESUMEN El conocimiento de los anuros andinos está en constante aumento, razón por la cual se necesita una actualización. Revisamos la literatura y museos registros científicos con el fin de determinar la riqueza de especies de anuros del norte de los Andes con base en las categorías de la UICN. El norte de los Andes alberga 740 especies de anuros,...
The vegetal landscape and forest habitats of Community interest are studied in two zones of the Asturian Central Mountain: the Upper Pajares and the Aramo Range. The Upper Pajares is a high mountain valley that has undergone major landscape transformations due to the disappearance of rural society model and building facilities and infrastructure su...
The landscape of pasture is configured as a mosaic of wood in which the transformation of the environment has taken centuries. This feature and the configuration of a cultural landscape do not prevent us to find values of an ecological and environmental root, along with other cultural. All this makes this landscape particularly biodiverse and, ther...
Fossil fish teeth are contained in marine deposits dated at ca 4.8 Ma found on the islands of Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain). These islands, situated in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre, can be considered a mid-way stopover point between the Caribbean Sea, with the Central American Seaway about to close in this epoch, and...
