When we sent Alan Berryman a first draft of this essay for review, he sent us back an unpublished
manuscript that discussed similar questions and possible solutions (Berryman 1999, …

The amount of solar radiation absorbed by an organism is a function of the intensity of the
radiation and the area of the organism exposed to the source of the radiation. Since the …

Cephalopods are increasingly acknowledged as an ecologically important group in Chilean
ecosystems, but are also one of their less-known biogeographic components. Notably, this …

The coastal waters of Peru and Chile are among the most productive of the world's oceans.
A striking source of interannual variability in this upwelling ecosystem, El Niño, results in …

We assessed the ingestion of animal items by 29 herbivore species of the most common
invertebrates on rocky intertidal shores of northern Chile (21 to 30 S). Data were obtained from …

Latitudinal diversity gradients (LDG) and their explanatory factors are among the most
challenging topics in macroecology and biogeography. Despite of its apparent generality, a …

… quadrat samplings, carried out at several rocky intertid~ communities in northern Chile (including
the study sites in this work) as part of a geographical survey of diversity (Camus et al., …

Latitudinal diversity patterns in marine species are commonly estimated from literature records,
which at times are incomplete and/or biased. Advances in molecular phylogenetics have …

Por casi un siglo, varios autores han analizado los patrones de distribución de la fauna y
flora marina del Pacífico de Sudamérica y de la costa de Chile en particular, con el propósito …

Aim To analyse the diversity and distribution of oceanic pelagic cephalopods along the
eastern Pacific Ocean assessing the existence of biogeographic structuring, and the role of …