Aim Beta diversity is essential for understanding how biological communities change along environmental gradients. Here we examined the taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional beta diversity patterns of sigmodontine rodents. We tested the influence of geographic distance and three environmental hypotheses: (1) water availability and productivity, (2) energy availability and (3) climatic stability, interpreting them through the...

Information from diversity inventories was used to study patterns of biodiversity and species distribution, to identify potential priority areas for conservation, and to guide future sampling efforts. In this context, we compiled information on non‐volant small mammal communities from the high Andes (>2000 m). Here, we present an open source dataset containing information on diversity (species composition, number of individual...

Aim To locate areas of biogeographical transitions within the Sierra Madre Oriental ( SMO ), Mexican transition zone. Location Eastern Mexico (18° to 27° N – 90° to 96° W) and the Americas. Methods We deconstructed passerine fauna into biogeographical affinities to map their integration in the studied area. We defined and quantified two features of biogeographical affinity based on raw distributional range concordance (chorolo...