. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: the Americas. Establishing Conservation Priorities Using Endemic Birds. The St. Lucia Amazon Amazoiia versicolor, eiideiiiic to St. Lucia: one of the most threatened birds in the world. (WWF/Paul Wachtel) Grenada. Several of the islands support their own single-island endemics, indeed St Lucia (620 sq. km) has four species unique to it. However, many more restricted-range species are shared with nearby islands, thus making the whole of the Eastern Caribbean one EBA. Patterns of endemism for other life-forms in the Caribbean are relatively well docu
. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: the Americas. Establishing Conservation Priorities Using Endemic Birds. The St. Lucia Amazon Amazoiia versicolor, eiideiiiic to St. Lucia: one of the most threatened birds in the world. (WWF/Paul Wachtel) Grenada. Several of the islands support their own single-island endemics, indeed St Lucia (620 sq. km) has four species unique to it. However, many more restricted-range species are shared with nearby islands, thus making the whole of the Eastern Caribbean one EBA. Patterns of endemism for other life-forms in the Caribbean are relatively well documented and show congruence with the bird distributions. A general trend for reptiles and amphibians is the occurrence of a large number of single-island or island- group endemic species on the four Greater Antillean islands of Cuba. Jamaica, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. The Lesser Antilles have relatively fewer single-island endemic species, but a large element of the herpetofauna is endemic to the Lesser Antilles as a whole, mirroring the Eastern Caribbean EBA. Similar patterns were shown in the Caribbean mammal fauna in historic times (Woods. 1989), but many of these species are now extinct. The described patterns of endemism in insects for the Caribbean as shown by Liebherr (1988) indicate congruence with the bird and other life-forms. In the Greater Antilles there a high numbers of single-island endemic plants, with for instance 3000 endemic species on Cuba and 1800 species on Hispaniola (Davis et 1986). EBAs In Central America There are 26 EBAs in this region with three (Guadalupe, Socorro and Cocos) being islands and the rest located on the mainland (Figure , Table ). Central America (including Mexico) forms a land-bridge between North and South America, but despite having avifaunal relationships with both continents it shares few restricted-range species with either. The topography of the region is complex with a series of mountain chains passing through it. ef
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