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Biodiversity and Conservation | 2017

Current knowledge of fungi from Neotropical montane cloud forests: distributional patterns and composition

Mariana Del Olmo-Ruiz; Ricardo García-Sandoval; Othón Alcántara-Ayala; Mario Veliz; Isolda Luna-Vega

Montane cloud forests in the Neotropics harbor a great wealth of biological diversity and a large number of endemic species. Here, we present (i) a comprehensive data mining exercise of fungi from Neotropical montane cloud forests (NMCF), (ii) an extensive review of the current knowledge of fungal richness, distribution and composition, and (iii) a preliminary analysis of fungal endemicity in Mexican montane cloud forests. Based on a survey of literature and other sources, we assembled a database of 6349 records representing 2962 fungal species in NMCF. The computed individual-based species rarefaction curve remained non-asymptotic, and the extrapolation curve estimated an expected increment of 42% in the number of species by doubling the sampling effort. Fungal species richness was highest in NMCF from Mesoamerica, particularly from Mexico and Costa Rica. Fungi from Mesoamerica, Caribbean and South America are significantly different at diverse taxonomic levels, and there is a little overlap in the fungal species recorded from these regions. The analyses of endemicity of the Mexican dataset performed with parsimony and Bayesian methods were highly complementary. They showed the following areas of endemicity supported by the congruent distribution of fungal species: (i) two main regions in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (TMVB); (ii) a region in the southern part of Veracruz; and (iii) a region located in the eastern part of TMVB with affinities with Sierra Madre Oriental and the Chiapan-Guatemala Highlands. This last area was supported by five species of Glomeromycota and is consistent with an area of endemicity previously found in vascular plants. In this study, we provide a perspective on gaps in knowledge regarding the diversity and distribution of fungi in NMCF, and provide a full dataset of fungal records with geographical, bibliographic and taxonomic information.


Journal of Biogeography | 2003

Regionalization of the avifauna of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico: a parsimony analysis of endemicity and distributional modelling approach

Octavio R. Rojas-Soto; Othón Alcántara-Ayala; Adolfo G. Navarro


Revista Mexicana De Biodiversidad | 2006

Florística del bosque mesófilo de montaña de Monte Grande, Lolotla, Hidalgo, México

Armando Ponce-Vargas; Isolda Luna-Vega; Othón Alcántara-Ayala; Carlos A. Ruiz-Jiménez


Revista Mexicana De Biodiversidad | 2006

La familia Podocarpaceae en el estado de Hidalgo, México

Raúl Contreras-Medina; Isolda Luna-Vega; Othón Alcántara-Ayala


Archive | 2012

change and conservation of Ternstroemia lineata DC. (Ternstroemiaceae) in Mesoamerica

Isolda Luna-Vega; Othón Alcántara-Ayala; Raúl Contreras-Medina; César A. Ríos-Muñoz


Revista Mexicana De Biodiversidad | 2006

Floristics of the cloud forest of Monte Grande, Lolotla, Hidalgo, Mexico

Armando Ponce-Vargas; Isolda Luna-Vega; Othón Alcántara-Ayala; Carlos A. Ruiz-Jiménez


Revista Mexicana De Biodiversidad | 2006

Family Podocarpaceae in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico

Raúl Contreras-Medina; Isolda Luna-Vega; Othón Alcántara-Ayala


Archive | 2006

La familia Podocarpaceae en el estado de Hidalgo, México Family Podocarpaceae in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico

Raúl Contreras-Medina; Isolda Luna-Vega; Othón Alcántara-Ayala


Archive | 2006

Florística del bosque mesófi lo de montaña de Monte Grande, Lolotla, Hidalgo, México Floristics of the cloud forest of Monte Grande, Lolotla, Hidalgo, Mexico

Armando Ponce-Vargas; Isolda Luna-Vega; Othón Alcántara-Ayala; Carlos A. Ruiz-Jiménez


Boletin De La Sociedad Botanica De Mexico | 2002

The cloud forest in the municipality of Landa de Matamoros, Queretaro, Mexico

Sandra Cartujano; Sergio Zamudio; Othón Alcántara-Ayala; Isolda Luna

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Isolda Luna-Vega

National Autonomous University of Mexico

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Raúl Contreras-Medina

National Autonomous University of Mexico

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Armando Ponce-Vargas

National Autonomous University of Mexico

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Carlos A. Ruiz-Jiménez

National Autonomous University of Mexico

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César A. Ríos-Muñoz

National Autonomous University of Mexico

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Isolda Luna

National Autonomous University of Mexico

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Mariana Del Olmo-Ruiz

National Autonomous University of Mexico

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Rafael Mayorga-Saucedo

National Autonomous University of Mexico

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Ricardo García-Sandoval

National Autonomous University of Mexico

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Sandra Cartujano

National Autonomous University of Mexico

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