Reassessing Neotropical angiosperm distribution patterns based on monographic data: a geometric interpolation approach
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Reassessing Neotropical angiosperm distribution patterns based on monographic data: a geometric interpolation approach
Raedig, C.; Dormann, C. F.; Hildebrandt, A. & Lautenbach, S. (2010)
Biodiversity and Conservation, 19(6) pp. 1523-1546. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-010-9785-1
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- Raedig, Claudia; Dormann, Carsten F.; Hildebrandt, Anke; Lautenbach, Sven
- Abstract
- Monographic data rely on specimens deposited in herbaria and museums, which have been thoroughly revised by experts. However, monographic data have been rarely used to map species richness at large scale, mainly because of the difficulties caused by spatially heterogeneous sampling effort. In this paper we estimate patterns of species richness and narrow endemism, based on monographic data of 4,055 Neotropical angiosperm species. We propose a geometric interpolation method to derive species ranges at a 1A degrees grid resolution. To this we apply an inverse distance-weighted summation scheme to derive maps of species richness and endemism. In the latter we also adjust for heterogeneous sampling effort. Finally, we test the robustness of the interpolated species ranges and derived species richness by applying the same method but using a leave-one-out-cross-validation (LOOCV). The derived map shows four distinct regions of elevated species richness: (1) Central America, (2) the Northern Andes, (3) Amazonia and (4) the Brazilian Atlantic coast ('Mata AtlA cent ntica'). The region with the highest estimated species richness is Amazonia, with Central America following closely behind. Centers of narrow endemism are located over the entire Neotropics, several of them coinciding with regions of elevated species richness. Sampling effort has a minor influence on the interpolation of overall species richness, but it substantially influences the estimation of regions of narrow endemism. Thus, in order to improve maps of narrow endemism and resulting conservation efforts, more collection and identification activity is required.
- Issue Date
- 2010
- Status
- published
- Publisher
- Springer
- Journal
- Biodiversity and Conservation
- ISSN
- 0960-3115
- Sponsor
- Helmholtz Association [VH-NG-247]