Phytogeography and Floristic Affinities of Woody Plants in “Los Montes de María”, a Tropical Dry Forest Fragment in the Colombian Caribbean

Mercado-Gómez, Jorge D.; Herazo-Vitola, Fran Y.; Puentes, María Eugenia Morales

doi:10.1007/s12229-019-09212-z

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“…Our analysis revealed that Capparaceae and Zygophyllaceae are predicted to disappear from these cores, while Fabaceae and Cactaceae will be lost from specific sites only. The main distribution of Capparaceae and Zygophyllaceae is reported in Central America, northern Colombia, and Venezuela (Pennington et al., 2009; Mercado‐Gómez et al., 2019). Those predicted extinctions of Capparaceae and Zygophyllaceae in Chiquitano, Misiones, and Caatinga could be associated with the delayed onset of the rainy season and a prolonged dry season in southern Amazonia (Marengo et al., 2014), along with a significant 30% reduction in precipitation over the Pantanal basin (Marengo & Espinoza, 2016) as forecasted for climatic models.…”

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“…7488 species, including all life forms) in the NSDF (Dryflor et al., 2016), we decided to focus on plant species from the families Zygophyllaceae, Capparaceae, Cactaceae, Malvaceae, and Fabaceae. Because of their abundance, dominance, and endemism within the NSDF, these taxa are considered representative of the biome (see Dryflor et al., 2016; Mercado‐Gómez et al., 2019, 2020; Pennington et al., 2009). These families include three primary life forms: herbs, shrubs, and trees.…”

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Climate‐driven shifts in the diversity of plants in the Neotropical seasonally dry forest: Evaluating the effectiveness of protected areas

Manrique‐Ascencio,

Prieto‐Torres,

Villalobos

et al. 2024

Global Change Biology

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Given the current environmental crisis, biodiversity protection is one of the most urgent socio‐environmental priorities. However, the effectiveness of protected areas (PAs), the primary strategy for safeguarding ecosystems, is challenged by global climate change (GCC), with evidence showing that species are shifting their distributions into new areas, causing novel species assemblages. Therefore, there is a need to evaluate PAs' present and future effectiveness for biodiversity under the GCC. Here, we analyzed changes in the spatiotemporal patterns of taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity (PD) of plants associated with the Neotropical seasonally dry forest (NSDF) under GCC scenarios. We modeled the climatic niche of over 1000 plant species in five representative families (in terms of abundance, dominance, and endemism) of the NSDF. We predicted their potential distributions in the present and future years (2040, 2060, and 2080) based on an intermediate scenario of shared socio‐economic pathways (SSP 3.70), allowing species to disperse to new sites or constrained to the current distribution. Then, we tested if the current PAs network represents the taxonomic and phylogenetic diversities. Our results suggest that GCC could promote novel species assemblages with local responses (communities' modifications) across the biome. In general, models predicted losses in the taxonomic and phylogenetic diversities of all the five plant families analyzed across the distribution of the NSDF. However, in the northern floristic groups (i.e., Antilles and Mesoamerica) of the NSDF, taxonomic and PD will be stable in GCC projections. In contrast, across the NSDF in South America, some cores will lose diversity while others will gain diversity under GCC scenarios. PAs in some NSDF regions appeared insufficient to protect the NSDF diversity. Thus, there is an urgent need to assess how the PA system could be better reconfigured to warrant the protection of the NSDF.

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Climate‐driven shifts in the diversity of plants in the Neotropical seasonally dry forest: Evaluating the effectiveness of protected areas

Manrique‐Ascencio,

Prieto‐Torres,

Villalobos

et al. 2024

Global Change Biology

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“…Con respecto a la composición, esta es similar a la reportada por otras investigaciones regionales, como es el caso de Rincón, et al [11], Rincón [12], Lücking, et al [16]. No obstante, es importante resaltar que la riqueza taxonómica de familias y especies se considera alta si se compara con la registrada para los departamentos de Atlántico, Córdoba y Guajira (215 especies), Cesar (54) y Bolívar (61) en el Caribe colombiano [23][24][25][26][27][28]49].…”

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“…Sobre esta región se encuentran los Montes de María, considerado como uno de los fragmentos de bosque seco tropical en mejor estado de conservación [21]. Sin embargo, aunque diferentes estudios han incrementado el conocimiento sobre la diversidad de la fauna y flora en esta región [22][23][24][25][26], poco es conocido sobre taxones como los líquenes, más aun cuando históricamente se ha asumido que la diversidad de plantas no vasculares era muy reducida para estos montes [9,27]. Empero, en años recientes se ha podido establecer que la composición y diversidad de briofitos, por ejemplo, es mayor de la esperada, de tal forma que el número de registros se ha incrementado para los ecosistemas secos [28,29].…”

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Contribución a la Micobiota Liquénica del Bosque Seco Tropical Colombiano (Montes de María, Sucre)

García-Martínez

Mercado-Gómez²

2020

Cienc. En Desarro.

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Se presenta el primer listado especies de líquenes encontrados en fragmentos de bosque seco tropical en los Montes de María- Sucre. Con el fin de identificar la composición de líquenes en el área de estudio, se realizaron muestreos a través de transectos lineales (100 x 10 m) en seis localidades: Colosó, Chalán, Toluviejo, Morroa, Ovejas y San Onofre. Para identificar si las especies correspondían a nuevos registros corologícos, datos sobre su distribución geográfica fueron analizados a partir de literatura especializada. Un total de 722 especímenes pertenecientes a 131 especies, 45 géneros y 22 familias fueron recolectados. Todas las especies, corresponden a nuevos reportes para el departamento de Sucre, 42 especies para el Caribe colombiano y 24 para Colombia. De esta forma, en el presente estudio se hace una contribución al conocimiento de la biota liquénica presente en bosques secos tropicales colombianos.

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“…-We selected ve plant families (Zygophyllaceae, Capparaceae, Cactaceae, Malvaceae, and Fabaceae) to represent the NSDF ora regarding endemism and distribution. These families are representative (in terms of abundance, dominance, and endemism) and primarily associated with the NSDF (Pennington et al 2009;Banda et al 2016;Mercado Gómez et al 2019. We downloaded a complete list of the species in these ve families inhabiting NSDF from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, https://www.gbif.org/) database.…”

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Climate change and low species drought tolerance will negatively impact plant richness in the Neotropical seasonally dry forests

Manrique-Ascencio

Prieto‐Torres

Villalobos

et al. 2023

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Neotropical seasonal dry forest (NSDF) is one of the most threatened ecosystems under global climate change (GCC) predictions, with likely species losses and uneven modification of diversity patterns all through its distribution. Nonetheless, few studies have evaluated the GCC impacts on the diversity patterns of NSDF plants. The lack of continental-scale approaches restricts our understanding of GCC consequences in the high beta-diverse NSDF. We showed some potential impacts of GCC on the distributions of over 1000 species of the NSDF, species richness patterns, and species composition of assemblages (beta diversity). We focus on five representative plant families that are abundant, dominant, and have a high endemism rate within the NSDF. These families were Cactaceae, Capparaceae, Fabaceae, Malvaceae, and Zygophyllacea. We reconstructed potential species distributions in the present and future scenarios (2040–2080) considering an intermediate Shared Socio-economic Pathway scenario and two dispersal ability assumptions on the taxa. We correlated climate-induced changes in the species distribution ranges with drought tolerance. We found that, even under a favorable dispersal scenario, species distribution and richness showed significant declines in the future across sites where temperatures are predicted to increase in the future. In Fabaceae, we observed a negative correlation between drought tolerance and changes in species distribution ranges in the future. Our results suggested biotic homogenization across the NSDF, but biotic heterogenization is the likely outcome at the continental scale under dispersal limitations. This information is critical for further planning of conservation actions as it can help to assess the current and future value of NSDF-protected areas and define new areas worth protecting.

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Phytogeography and Floristic Affinities of Woody Plants in “Los Montes de María”, a Tropical Dry Forest Fragment in the Colombian Caribbean

Cited by 4 publications

References 28 publications

Climate‐driven shifts in the diversity of plants in the Neotropical seasonally dry forest: Evaluating the effectiveness of protected areas

Climate‐driven shifts in the diversity of plants in the Neotropical seasonally dry forest: Evaluating the effectiveness of protected areas

Contribución a la Micobiota Liquénica del Bosque Seco Tropical Colombiano (Montes de María, Sucre)

Climate change and low species drought tolerance will negatively impact plant richness in the Neotropical seasonally dry forests

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