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- Title
Birds and Mammals of the St. Elias Mountain Parks: Checklist Evidence for a Biogeographic Convergence Zone.
- Authors
Danby, Ryan K.
- Abstract
The St. Elias region of North America occupies portions of British Columbia, Alaska, and Yukon and consists of a contiguous network of protected areas. Available information on avian and mammalian diversity in each of the region's five major protected areas (Kluane National Park, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park, and Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge) was integrated to create a species checklist as part of an ongoing effort to create a region-wide ecological database for research and management purposes. Based on the tabulated data, the five protected areas combine to protect a total of 178 species of breeding birds and 51 species of terrestrial mammals. These numbers indicate a level of richness up to 30% beyond that predicted at a continental scale. A high proportion of species near their distributional limits and typical of several different biogeographic provinces appears to account for this value and supports consideration of the region as a biogeographic convergence zone.
- Subjects
SAINT Elias Mountains; COAST Ranges; BIRDS; MAMMALS; SPECIES; BIOGEOGRAPHY; NATIONAL parks &; reserves
- Publication
Canadian Field-Naturalist, 2003, Vol 117, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0008-3550
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5962/p.353852