Rapoport effect in continental American Terrarana frogs: latitudinal and altitudinal richness gradients
Abstract
Latitudinal and altitudinal range-size patterns of 640 species of Terrarana frogs were examined to test Rapoport's rule as an explanation for the gradients of species richness. High-latitude species do not necessarily have a greater latitudinal extent than low-latitude species, and, contrary to what the rule at the altitudinal level predicts, high-elevation species have a lower altitudinal range than low-elevation species. However, in the Northern Hemisphere an inflection was observed in the size of the latitudinal range from 15º, finding from there a trend between the latitude and the size of the geographic distribution of the species. In general, the spatial patterns of latitudinal and altitudinal extension in this group of American frogs do not follow Rapoport's rule, that is, the rule does not contribute to the wealth patterns of these frogs.
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