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      Una regionalización de la Faja Volcánica Transmexicana con base en su riqueza florística Translated title: A regionalization of the Transmexican Volcanic Belt based on its floristic richness

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          Se propone una regionalización de la provincia morfotectónica de la Faja Volcánica Transmexicana basada en la distribución geográfica de 4,434 especies de plantas vasculares, pertenecientes a 999 géneros y 47 familias. Mediante la clasificación de una matriz de datos estructurada, con la distribución de los registros de las especies sobre una rejilla de celdas de 30' de latitud y longitud (aproximadamente 2,500 km²) se calcularon las similitudes florísticas entre las celdas utilizando el coeficiente de similitud de Sorensen-Dice. A partir de los agrupamientos de celdas mediante el método de enlace completo se definieron cuatro unidades florísticas (grupos de celdas) dentro de la Faja Volcánica Transmexicana. Un par de estas unidades no son continuas, pues muestran disyunciones entre las otras unidades, debido a accidentes orográficos que las separan. Igualmente, las unidades difieren en tamaño y composición florística y ocupan espacios geográficos particulares de la Faja Volcánica Transmexicana, en función de los parámetros abióticos que las caracterizan.

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          We propose the regionalization of the Transmexican Volcanic Belt morphotectonic province, based on the distribution of 4,434 of vascular plant species belonging to 999 genera and 47 families. Regionalization was done using a data matrix with species recorded in grid-cells of 30' latidude and longitude (about 2,500 km²) all along the Transmexican Volcanic Belt morphotectonic province. Based on clusters obtained with the complete linkage method, cells in the Transmexican Volcanic Belt were grouped in four floristic units; a couple of them show disjunct distribution due mostly to the orographic accidents that separate them. Likewise, the units differ in size and floristic composition and they occupy particular geographic positions inside the Transmexican Volcanic Belt, as response to the abiotic parameters that characterize them.

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              Biogeographic areas and transition zones of Latin America and the Caribbean islands based on panbiogeographic and cladistic analyses of the entomofauna.

              Track and cladistic biogeographic analyses based on insect taxa are used as a framework to interpret patterns of the Latin American and Caribbean entomofauna by identifying biogeographic areas on the basis of endemicity and arranging them hierarchically in a system of regions, subregions, dominions, and provinces. The Nearctic region, inhabited by Holarctic insect taxa, comprises five provinces: California, Baja California, Sonora, Mexican Plateau, and Tamaulipas. The Mexican transition zone comprises five provinces: Sierra Madre Occidental, Sierra Madre Oriental, Transmexican Volcanic Belt, Balsas Basin, and Sierra Madre del Sur. The Neotropical region, which harbors many insect taxa with close relatives in the tropical areas of the Old World, comprises four subregions: Caribbean, Amazonian, Chacoan, and Parana. The South American transition zone comprises five provinces: North Andean Paramo, Coastal Peruvian Desert, Puna, Atacama, Prepuna, and Monte. The Andean region, which harbors insect taxa with close relatives in the Austral continents, comprises three subregions: Central Chilean, Subantarctic, and Patagonian.
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                Journal
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                Botanical Sciences
                Bot. sci
                Sociedad Botánica de México A.C. (México )
                2007-4476
                2013
                : 91
                : 1
                : 93-105
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Mexico
                [2 ] Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Mexico
                Article
                S2007-42982013000100008
                639248f3-a6e5-4381-82f6-931eaaf2e74a

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                Plant Sciences

                Plant science & Botany
                floristic elements,floristic units,geographical distribution,distribución geográfica,elementos florísticos,unidades florísticas

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