Esclareciendo los mecanismos que promueven la variación en las historias de vida de los membrácidos en los gradientes altitudinales

Abstract

Tropical mountains are formed by mosaics of environmental gradients, which can influence the evolutionary trajectory of local populations, leading to biotic radiation and adaptive divergence. The Tropical Andes hold amongst the most diverse, least understood, and more endangered biotas in the world. Because biotic and abiotic factors change drastically over small spatial scales, Andean ecosystems house species that are narrowly distributed across the elevational gradient