The marine areas of South America (SA) include almost 30,000 km of coastline and
encompass three different oceanic domains—the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Atlantic …

Abstract The Humboldt Current System (HCS) is one of the most productive marine
ecosystems on earth. It extends along the west coast of South America from southern Chile …

Background Although polychaetes are one of the dominant taxa in marine communities,
their distributions and taxonomic diversity are poorly understood. Recent studies have …

Geographic variation of species richness is strongly correlated with environmental gradients.
However, random arrangement of species distributions within a bounded domain can also …

" Rather than favoring only one approach, Juan J. Morrone proposes a comprehensive
treatment of the developments and theories of evolutionary biogeography. Evolutionary …

Several methods have been proposed for use in identifying and classifying areas of
endemism. Parsimony analysis of endemicity (PAE) is the most widely used. It constructs …

Aim To understand the ecological and historical/evolutionary processes underlying an
inverse latitudinal gradient of richness (LGR) using crustacean peracarid species as a …

Reflecting increased interest in the field and its relevance in global environmental issues,
Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, Volume 45 provides authoritative …

Latitudinal diversity gradients (LDG) and their explanatory factors are among the most
challenging topics in macroecology and biogeography. Despite of its apparent generality, a …

Endemism is often misinterpreted as referring to narrow distributions (range restriction). In
fact, a taxon is said to be endemic to an area if it lives there and nowhere else. The …