Monte Desert (Argentina): insect biodiversity and natural areas

Biogeography of the Monte Desert

“…This last species was used by Morello (1958) to determine the boundary between the Monte and the Espinal. As with plants, there is no known insect taxon with a distribution that coincides strictly with the area of the Monte (Roig-Juñ ent et al, 2001). This is perhaps because some endemic insect species of the Monte are restricted to only a part of the province, such as the northern, central, or southern areas (Roig-Juñ ent et al, 2001).…”

Biodiversity of cactophilic microorganisms in western Argentina: community structure and species composition in the necroses of two sympatric cactus hosts

“…The reserve is an area of high endemism situated within the Monte phytogeographic region (Cabrera, 1971), with warm and dry weather and 6e9 months of periodic droughts per year (Mirr e, 1976). Vegetation is typical of a xeric environment, with scarce arboreal presence, mainly represented by the genus Prosopis, and a landscape otherwise dominated by shrubs of the family Zygophyllaceae and cacti (Roig-Juñent et al, 2001). Among the latter, the most frequent are columnar cacti of the genera Trichocereus and Cereus and two species of the genus Opuntia, O. sulphurea (the most abundant) and O. cordobensis.…”

Paleoambientes y Uso de los Recursos Leñosos por los Grupos Cazadorez-Recolectores del Noreste de Patagonia desde el Holoceno Medio

“…La vegetación es de tipo arbustiva perteneciente a la provincia biogeográfica del Monte, distrito Sur o Austral (Roig-Juñent et al 2001;Abraham et al 2009;Roig et al 2009) (Morello 1958). A nivel local, se han diferenciado cuatro comunidades vegetales (Comunidad psammófita, Comunidad de transición psammófita-arbustiva, Estepa arbustiva y Estepa graminosa) en base a las unidades geomorfológicas asociadas .…”