The goal of this study was to see if forest millipedes could test the Tropical Conservativism Hypothesis and the Biogeographical Conservativism Hypothesis. To discriminate between the two ideas, the latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) was evaluated in the Centrobolus genus. The number of species and latitudinal degrees distant from the equator had a significant relationship (r=-0.91, r2=0.83, n=35, p0.01). It was suggested that an evolutionary predilection for temperate habitats led to climatic dispersal restrictions based on precipitation seasonality gradients and predation.
Author(s) Details:
Mark Cooper,
School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa.
Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/NVBS-V9/article/view/5880
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