La importancia de los atlas biogeográficos para la conservación de la biodiversidad

Abstract

Although global inventories of the world's biota may represent an appropriate action for the preservation of biodiversity, the time required to both survey and document all taxa would outstrip current taxonomic expertise. It has been suggested that panbiogeographic and cladistic biogeographic methods can be useful tools for conservation biology. Some biogeographic methods, namely track or panbiogeographic analysis, parsimony analysis of endemicity, and cladistic biogeography, are briefly presented and their application to biodiversity conservation is discussed. Biogeographic atlases encompassing tracks, areas of endemism, and area cladograms are proposed as a mean to contribute to biodiversity conservation.