Island biogeography in continental areas: inferring dispersal based on distributional patterns of Pronophilina butterflies (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) in the north Andean massifs

Autores/as

  • Oscar Mahecha Zoological Division of the Nature Education Centre, Jagiellonian University, ul. Gronostajowa 5-30-387 Kraków,Poland Instituto de Ciencias Naturales ICN Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotá,Colombia Evolutionary Ecology and Tropical Biogeography Group ECOBIT Bogotá,Colombia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8682-0020
  • Rafał Garlacz Zoological Division of the Nature Education Centre, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 5, 30-387, Kraków, Poland
  • M. Gonzalo Andrade Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Carrera 30 No. 45-03, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
  • Carlos Prieto Departamento de Biología, Universidad del Atlántico, Km 7 Antigua vía Puerto Colombia, Barranquilla, Colombia
  • Tomasz W. Pyrcz Entomology Department, Institute of Zoology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 5, 30-387, Kraków, Poland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/ib.20078706e.2019.90.2796

Palabras clave:

Biogeographical barriers, Cloud forests, Ecological corridors, Endemism, Source area

Resumen

Faunal structure, species relationships and distribution patterns of Pronophilina butterflies, a Neotropical montane section of the Satyrinae (Nymphalidae), of 5 isolated north Andean massifs —Cordillera de Mérida, Sierra El Tamá, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Cordillera de la Costa and Sierra de Perijá— are analyzed from the island biogeography perspective. El Tamá range, a part of the “continental” Eastern Cordillera, is considered as the source area of the faunas of the Sierra de Perijá and the Cordillera de Mérida, which in turn are stepping stones for the dispersal of species to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Cordillera de La Costa. The role of major biogeographical variables is evaluated in the process of colonization of these areas. It is conlcuded that the maximum elevation between the neighbouring ranges is the most important variable, not the distance. This is related to the fact that dispersal in this group of butterflies seems to occur by slow expansion through ecological corridors not by long distance flights. Faunal relationships between the 5 ranges and the elevational bands occupied by widespread and endemic species allow inferring the extent of vertical movements of cloud forests in the past.

Biografía del autor/a

Oscar Mahecha, Zoological Division of the Nature Education Centre, Jagiellonian University, ul. Gronostajowa 5-30-387 Kraków,Poland Instituto de Ciencias Naturales ICN Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotá,Colombia Evolutionary Ecology and Tropical Biogeography Group ECOBIT Bogotá,Colombia

Research Associate Zoological Division of the Nature Education Centre, Jagiellonian University, ul. Gronostajowa 5-30-387 Kraków,Poland 

PhD (c) Instituto de Ciencias Naturales ICN Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotá-Colombia

Researcher Evolutionary Ecology and Tropical Biogeography Group ECOBIT Bogotá-Colombia

M. Gonzalo Andrade, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Carrera 30 No. 45-03, Bogotá D.C., Colombia

Profesor Asociado, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

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2019-09-09

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