In biogeography, the Neotropic or Neotropical realm is one of the eight terrestrial realms.This realm includes South America, Central America, the Caribbean Islands, and southern North America.In Mexico, the Yucatán Peninsula and southern lowlands, and most of the east and west coastlines, including the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula are Neotropical.

Neotropical region, one of the six major biogeographic areas of the world defined on the basis of its characteristic animal life.It extends south from the Mexican desert into South America as far as the subantarctic zone. It includes such animals as the llama, tapir, deer, pig, jaguar, puma, a variety of opossums, many rodents and fishes, and extremely rich insect and bird populations.

Phylum Porifera. Ulisses Pinheiro, Ludimila Calheira, in Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates (Fourth Edition), 2020. Limitations. Although the Neotropics has a high diversity of freshwater sponges, the records are concentrated in Brazil and Argentina. The early records came from the Amazon Basin through the material collected by European expeditions in the …

In context of biogeography, Neotropic or Neotropical means one of the world's eight terrestrial ecozones.. This ecozone includes South and Central America, the Mexican lowlands, the Caribbean islands, and southern Florida, because these regions share a large number of plant and animal groups.. It is sometimes used as a synonym for the tropical area of South America, …

2021年6月28日 · Definition noun A biogeographic realm that covers South America, Central America, and the Caribbean Supplement Biogeographic realms are large spatial regions of the Earth’s land surface. Studying biogeographic realms leads to insight especially on biodiversity.It provides understanding on the extent of biodiversity and the factors that affect it.

Biogeographic region - Neotropical, Flora, Fauna: Essentially the Neotropical kingdom covers all but the extreme southern tip and southwestern strip of South America; Central America; Mexico, excluding the dry north and centre; and beyond to the West Indies and the southern tip of Florida (Figure 1). The vegetation ranges from tropical rainforest in the Amazon and Orinoco basins to …

Organisms. Ricardo A. Ojeda, Agustina Novillo, in Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (Third Edition), 2024 Abstract. The Neotropical Region is one of the major biogeographic divisions for both plants and animals on Earth. It spans from central Mexico and the Caribbean islands to southern South America. The Neotropical Region contains the largest number of mammal species in the New …

The realm also includes temperate southern South America. In contrast, the Neotropical Floristic Kingdom excludes southernmost South America, which instead is placed in the Antarctic kingdom.. The Neotropic is delimited by similarities in fauna or flora.Its fauna and flora are distinct from the Nearctic realm (which includes most of North America) because of the long …

2022年10月27日 · Comprising most of South America, Central America, tropical Mexico, and the Caribbean Islands, the Neotropics are the most biodiverse region on Earth, home to at least a third of global biodiversity (Raven et al., 2020).This region not only includes the largest tropical rainforest, Amazonia, but also 8 of the world’s 34 biodiversity hotspots (Mittermeier et al., 2011).

2021年10月21日 · INTRODUCTION. There are two key features of Neotropical biodiversity: one is that it is astonishing and the other is that it is disappearing. It is astonishing because of the long-term, complex and intricate ways by which the myriad life forms living today in the region evolved, building complex ecological interactions and resulting in enormous variation at the …