El área protegida Sierra de Quila en Jalisco posee una extensa red de arroyos permanentes y temporales donde los bosques de galería mantienen importantes procesos ecológicos y de conectividad biológica. Este trabajo describe su estructura florística arbórea en siete arroyos ubicados en el intervalo altitudinal de 1 876 y 2 200 m. Se establecieron 29 sitios de muestreo de 500 m2 cada uno (1.45 ha) en los que se midieron todos los individuos leñosos >7 cm de diámetro (DN). Se registraron 881 árboles, pertenecientes a 35 especies de 17 familias, entre los taxa dominantes se registraron Alnus acuminata, Clethra hartwegii, Pinus devoniana, Prunus serotina, Styrax ramirezii y Salix bonplandiana. La riqueza específica entre localidades varió de 10 a 22 especies, mientras que el Índice de Diversidad Shannon-Wiener fue de 1.8 a 2.6 nats y el de dominancia de Simpson de 0.12 a 0.48. El análisis de agrupamiento y el análisis de escalonamiento multidimensional no métrico (NMDS) evidenciaron 40 % de similitud florística entre arroyos. Se observaron diferencias en la densidad de especies latifoliadas entre sitios (p < 0.025), esto se confirma tanto por la disimilitud en la abundancia promedio de los taxa entre los lugares con vertiente norte y sur (PERMANOVA, F = 2.45, p = 0.0001), como la registrada para la altitud de los sitios (PERMANOVA, F= 1.71, p = 0.004).
For more than 10 years (2007-2018), the benthic macroinvertebrates of Bahía de Chamela (Mexican Pacific) were sampled at 31 sites (0-25 m depth). A total of 308 species of the five main classes of benthic molluscs were obtained (106 bivalves, 185 gastropods, 13 polyplacophorans, two scaphopods and two cephalopods). This is a significant increase in the number of species (246 new records) compared to the 62 species previously recorded more than 10 years ago. The distribution in the 31 localities of the bay is given for the first time for most of the species, together with information on its ecological rarity (incidence in the samples). Two families of bivalves (Veneridae and Mytilidae) and three families of gastropods (Calyptraeidae, Muricidae and Collumbellidae) comprised ~ 30% of all species. Ecological rarity was evident with 45 families (45.0%) with only one species and 178 species (57.8%) collected in one site and 67 (21.8%) in two sites. The molluscs of Bahía de Chamela represent 12.2% of all species recorded in the Mexican Pacific. Their biogeographic affinities are mostly related to the Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) including the oceanic islands and a few are restricted to the Tropical Mexican Pacific (TMP). Some have broader distributions to adjacent northern and southern temperate regions of the American Pacific, one to the western Atlantic, two pantropical (PAN) and two cosmopolitans (COS). The range distribution of each species was reviewed and updated, thus finding that seven species have extended their ranges of geographic distribution.
RESUMEN. Ctenosaura pectinata es una iguana endémica de México y está considerada como amenazada de acuerdo con la Norma NOM-059-2010-SEMARNAT. Las evidencias fotográficas muestran el primer registro de canibalismo de C. pectinata en el Parque Nacional Isla Isabel.
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