Elevational biodiversity gradients in the Neotropics: Perspectives from freshwater caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera)

• Blanca Ríos-Touma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Blanca Ríos-Touma, Francisco Cuesta

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: blanca.rios@udla.edu.ec (BRT); francisco.cuesta@udla.edu.ec (FC)

  Affiliation Facultad de Ingenierías y Ciencias Aplicadas, Ingeniería Ambiental/ Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud–BIOMAS-, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3921-0908

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• Francisco Cuesta ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Blanca Ríos-Touma, Francisco Cuesta

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: blanca.rios@udla.edu.ec (BRT); francisco.cuesta@udla.edu.ec (FC)

  Affiliation Facultad de Ingenierías y Ciencias Aplicadas, Ingeniería Ambiental/ Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud–BIOMAS-, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5150-073X

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• Ernesto Rázuri-Gonzales,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Entomology III, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7554-0816

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• Ralph Holzenthal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Andrea Tapia,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Validation

  Affiliation Mashpi Reserve, Quito, Ecuador

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• Marco Calderón-Loor

  Roles Investigation, Software

  Affiliations Facultad de Ingenierías y Ciencias Aplicadas, Ingeniería Ambiental/ Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud–BIOMAS-, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

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