Leaf litter weevil richness increases with elevation in a tropical–temperate transitional forest in El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, northeastern Mexico

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CoberturaMéxicoes_ES
Fecha de ingreso2026-09-15T00:30:20Z
Fecha de publicación2024-01-01
ResumenAbstractWe studied communities of leaf litter weevils along a 2000 m elevation gradient in El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, northeastern Mexico, an area where Nearctic and Neotropical biotas overlap. After achieving high inventory completeness (0.922 site sample coverage), we encountered 81 weevil morphospecies, of which 55 were known to be leaf litter specialists. The diversity of leaf litter weevils increased with elevation. Beta diversity across the elevational gradient was mostly explained by species turnover rather than nestedness. The interaction between forest structure (measured as median DBH of trees) and precipitation seasonality explained more than 20% of the variation in weevil species richness: weevil richness showed a negative relationship with tree DBH and was positively associated with low climate seasonality variation, characteristics of tropical montane cloud forests. In contrast with insect taxa such as ants and dung beetles, which attain their highest richness at lower elevations, leaf litter weevil richness peaked at 1600 m. These results suggest that most litter weevil species are highly associated with a particular elevation range and the overall pattern of richness increasing with elevation is probably the result of an association of many weevil species with tropical montane cloud forest habitats, which occur close to the top of the mountain.Abstract in Spanish is available with online material.es_ES
Doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13295es_ES
URIhttps://riuat.uat.edu.mx/handle/123456789/2303
Idiomaeses_ES
EditorialWileyes_ES
RelaciónBiotropicaes_ES
URL relacionadohttps://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13295es_ES
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FuenteBiotropica
TítuloLeaf litter weevil richness increases with elevation in a tropical–temperate transitional forest in El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, northeastern Mexicoes_ES
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AutorVillaseñor‐Amador, Damián
AutorJanda, Milan
AutorRosas‐Mejía, Madai
AutorSandoval‐Becerra, Fatima Magdalena
AutorMorrone, Juan J.
AutorVillaseñor‐Amador, Damiánes_ES
AutorJanda, Milanes_ES
AutorRosas‐Mejía, Madaies_ES
AutorSandoval‐Becerra, Fatima Magdalenaes_ES
AutorMorrone, Juan J.es_ES
InstituciónUniversidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas
InstituciónUniversidad Autónoma de Tamaulipases_ES
Número2es_ES
URL relacionadahttps://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13295
Tipo de artículoIndexado
Tipo de artículoIndexadoes_ES
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