Kim Ribeiro Barão

Dr. Kim Ribeiro Barão

Laboratório de Sistemática e Diversidade de Artrópodes, Unidade Educacional Penedo, Campus Arapiraca, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Penedo, Alagoas, Brazil

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Academic Career Length

17Years (2010-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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25 February 2014 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
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Kim Ribeiro Barão
GGGislene L. Gonçalves
Gislene L. Gonçalves
OMOlaf H. H. Mielke
Olaf H. H. Mielke
MKMarcus R. Kronforst
Marcus R. Kronforst
GMGilson R. P. Moreira
Gilson R. P. Moreira

28 July 2020 in Austral Entomology
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Kim Ribeiro Barão
AFAugusto Ferrari
Augusto Ferrari
JGJocelia Grazia
Jocelia Grazia


30 September 2013 in Arthropod Structure & Development
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Kim Ribeiro Barão
AFAugusto Ferrari
Augusto Ferrari
JGJocelia Grazia
Jocelia Grazia

1 May 2017 in Zoologischer Anzeiger
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Kim Ribeiro Barão
AFAugusto Ferrari
Augusto Ferrari
CACarolina V.K. Adami
Carolina V.K. Adami
JGJocelia Grazia
Jocelia Grazia

1 September 2013 in Systematics and Biodiversity
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AFAugusto Ferrari
Augusto Ferrari
KBKim Ribeiro Barão
Kim Ribeiro Barão
FSFelipe L. Simões
Felipe L. Simões
Panbiogeography represents the spatial congruence among species distributions by means of generalized tracks. Some critics have suggested the method fails to objectively evaluate congruence, being neither repeatable nor falsifiable. The MartiTracks software was proposed to address spatial congruence using geometric properties as a counterpoint to the manual procedures so far employed in generalized track obtainment. To evaluate whether MartiTracks is a reliable alternative to the congruence problem in the quantitative panbiogeographic approach, we tested the software parameters with three analysis schemes under two real datasets. Then, we proceeded to a comparison of the results to those produced from Parsimony Analysis of Endemicity (PAE) and Clique Analysis, two quantitative methods which are based in predefined biogeographic areas or in the employment of grid cells. For PAE we used both analytical units, while Clique Analysis was restricted to grid cells. Through this, we aimed to comparatively evaluate the criteria of spatial congruence in different approaches. For each dataset and method, significantly different tracks resulted, highlighting the disparate congruence criteria among panbiogeographic approaches. Despite PAE ending up as the most reliable of the tools tested, it is still far from solving panbiogeographic congruence. The main focus of this paper, MartiTracks, is indeed a tool that makes minimum spanning tree construction a repeatable and easy-to-visualize process, but stumbles upon its obscure procedures of generalized track obtainment, congruence criteria, subjective parameter definition, the unclear implications of employing said parameters, and dubious results. Our results suggest that the subjectivity of the parameter setup process substantially influences the results, biasing them to the user-desired level of congruence. That the software produces fast and easy-to-visualize results does not make it a definitive solution to the problem of quantitative panbiogeographic approaches.