Chironomid Research in Northern Patagonia

• Published in: CHIRONOMUS Journal of Chironomidae Research
• Main Authors: Donato, Mariano Humberto, Massaferro, Julieta, Brooks, Stephen J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Museum of Natural History and Archaeology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Subjects: Chironomidae; Diversity; Patagonia; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Austral; New Zealand; Argentina; Julieta; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/42493

Patagonia is the southernmost territory of South America and was traditionally considered as belonging to the Neotropical region (Sclater 1858, Wallace 1876). Based on these zoogeographic schemes, the Argentinean biogeographer Raul Ringuelet (1961) divided Patagonia into the Araucanian Subregion, ch...