Establishment of Biogeographic Areas by Distributing Endemic Flora and Habitats (Dominican Republic, Haiti R.)

Abstract

Despite the large number of botanical studies conducted on the flora of the Island of Hispaniola, some of which adopted a floristic or physiognomical approach (e.g., Zanoni et al., 1990; Honer and Jimenez 1994; Guerrero et al., 1997; May, 1997, 2000, 2001; Mejia and Jimenez 1998; Rivas-Martinez et al. 1999; May and Peguero, 2000; Mejia et al., 2000; Slocum et al., 2000; Garcia and Clase 2002; Garcia et al. 2002; Peguero and Salazar 2002; Veloz and Pequero 2002); and Cano et al., 2009a, 2009b, 2010a, 2010b, 2011, 2012 with a phytosociological methodology, only few have adopted phytogeographical or phytosociological approaches. Here we present a biogeographic profile on the flora of the Island of Hispanola.