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The municipality of Culiacán, Sinaloa, México, does not have Natural Protected Areas (ANP) under municipal decree and, since 2004, lacks an ANP to protect its dry forest. Within state normative, it manages the Tacuichamona mountain range, shared by the municipalities of Cosalá and Elota, enacted in 2020. The current study aims to describe woody plant richness, risk categories, vegetation types, and conservation status of the Cerro de la Virgen, Culiacán, Sinaloa. INEGI's cartography was consulted with an available 1:1 000 000 and 1:250 000 scale to describe the geographic location, and the physical and biological variables, resulting in a BS1 (h')w climate, with its geology composed of andesite-andesite tuff, ignimbrite-rhyolite tuff, granodiorite, and alluvium; vertisol soil with tropical deciduous forest vegetation and secondary vegetation. Transects were traced for listing the woody plants, adding 0.1 ha. The in-situ identification was carried out by specialists. To determine the national endangered status, the NOM 059-SERMARNAT-2010 was consulted, together with the International Red List (UICN). It resulted in a richness of 18 families, 49 genera, and 51 species of woody plants. Sitting in the richness range of taxa described by Gentry (Between 50 and 70 species) for tropical dry forests in America. The family with the highest quantity of genera was Fabaceae, and the genus with the highest richness was Bursera. Regarding the extinction risk status from the national legislation, four species were registered: Two under Special Protection (Pr) and two under the Threatened status (A). According to IUCN, a total of 40 species are counted. It is required to issue more decrees to compensate for deforestation by land-use change. For this reason, the decree of the Cerro de la Virgen as an ANP Will increase the conservation cover in 914.83 ha of dry forest of Sinaloa México. Partially amending the loss of vegetation surface in forests and jungles. Additionally, it would shelter multiple environmental, ecological and cultural services that dry forests provide, materializing the conservation jurisprudence of natural areas and would support international organizations' conservation efforts for 2030. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ensembles of beetles and the seasonal distribution of diversity attracted to carrion in an artificial forest result of the urbanization of the Protected Natural Area Sierra de Guadalupe in central Mexico was studied. Monthly samples were collected from June 2017 to May 2018 using four carrion traps type NTP-80. A total of 3,434 individuals belonging to 17 families and 58 species were collected, of which 13 were identified to the species level and 45 to morphospecies. The species estimators suggest that was registered between 77.3% (Chao 1) and 80.5% (ACE) of the species. The families Staphylinidae, Silphidae, Carabidae, Leiodidae, Histeridae and Nitidulidae grouped 95.8% of the total abundance and 67.2% of the species. The family Staphylinidae was the higher richness with 21 species, the remaining had less than five species, of which the family Silphidae was the most important with four species, and represented the necrophagous guilt which was the second most abundant making up 21% of all beetles collected after the predators (62%). The diversity was higher in rainy than in drought season, the faunistic similarity between seasons was low (J=0.37), with 32 species exclusive of rainy and four of drought season. In the area inhabit wide-ranging species adapted to perturbation conditions, an endemic species, and converge montane elements with species of semiarid environments, therefore, is important to maintain the connection of the artificial forest with the forest area in upper parts of the Sierra de Guadalupe, and conserve the fragments of xeric shrubland that are scarce in the basin of Mexican Valley, so as to mitigate the impact of the urbanization in the diversity of beetles associated to carrion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]