What is the role of topographic heterogeneity and climate on the distribution and conservation of vascular epiphytes in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest?

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 1415-1431
Author(s):  
Samyra Gomes Furtado ◽  
Luiz Menini Neto
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Vascular Epiphytes ◽  
Topographic Heterogeneity

First record of albino lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris Linnaeus 1758) in an important Brazilian Atlantic Forest hotspot

Mammalia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
pp. 601-604
Author(s):  
Mariana Bueno Landis ◽  
Luciano Candisani ◽  
Leticia Prado Munhoes ◽  
João Carlos Zecchini Gebin ◽  
Frineia Rezende ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
First Record ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Tapirus Terrestris

AbstractAlbinism is the absence of pigmentation or coloration and is rarely found in nature. In this study we examined photos and videos obtained by cameras traps in the Legado das Águas Reserve. In the images, we identified two albino lowland tapirs. The results highlight the necessity of understanding the genetic diversity of lowland tapir populations and the important role of the professional photography associated with scientific research.

Habitat loss effects on spatial distribution of non-vascular epiphytes in a Brazilian Atlantic forest

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 619-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisi Dámaris Pereira Alvarenga ◽  
Kátia Cavalcanti Pôrto ◽  
Juliana Rosa do Pará Marques de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Habitat Loss ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Vascular Epiphytes

scholarly journals The role of natural regeneration to ecosystem services provision and habitat availability: a case study in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Biotropica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 890-899 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernardo B. N. Strassburg ◽  
Felipe S. M. Barros ◽  
Renato Crouzeilles ◽  
Alvaro Iribarrem ◽  
Juliana Silveira dos Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Natural Regeneration ◽  
Habitat Availability ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Rediscovering Rhipsalis hoelleri (Cactaceae), a Critically Endangered species from Brazilian Atlantic Forest 

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 498 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-68
Author(s):  
WEVERSON CAVALCANTE CARDOSO ◽  
RAQUEL NEGRÃO ◽  
VALQUÍRIA FERREIRA DUTRA ◽  
CASSIA MÔNICA SAKURAGUI
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Vascular Epiphytes ◽  
Critically Endangered Species ◽  
The World ◽  
Center Of Diversity ◽  
Taxonomic Groups ◽  
Epiphyte Species ◽  
High Diversity ◽  
Vascular Epiphyte

Rhipsalis Gaertner (1788: 138) belongs to Cactaceae Juss., which is among the major taxonomic groups including the highest numbers of threatened species in the world (Goettsch et al. 2015). The center of diversity and endemism of this genus is in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, a world hotspot of biodiversity (Myers et al. 2000). This forests harbors 5% of all flowering plants species on the planet (Stehmann et al. 2009), including a high diversity of vascular epiphytes. Cactaceae is the sixth most expressive family in terms of number of epiphytes in the Atlantic Forest (2.2% of all vascular epiphyte species at the domain; Freitas et al. 2016) and Rhipsalis is the largest genus of epiphytic cacti (40 species according to Calvente 2012), highlighting the importance of this genus amongst the global epiphytic flora.

scholarly journals The magnitude and extent of edge effects on vascular epiphytes across the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edicson Parra-Sanchez ◽  
Cristina Banks-Leite
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Edge Effects ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Species Abundance ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Suitable Habitat ◽  
Forest Fragments ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Vascular Epiphytes ◽  
Epiphyte Communities

Abstract Edge effects are ubiquitous landscape processes influencing over 70% of forest cover worldwide. However, little is known about how edge effects influence the vertical stratification of communities in forest fragments. We combined a spatially implicit and a spatially explicit approach to quantify the magnitude and extent of edge effects on canopy and understorey epiphytic plants in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Within the human-modified landscape, species richness, species abundance and community composition remained practically unchanged along the interior-edge gradient, pointing to severe biotic homogenisation at all strata. This is because the extent of edge effects reached at least 500 m, potentially leaving just 0.24% of the studied landscape unaffected by edges. We extrapolated our findings to the entire Atlantic Forest and found that just 19.4% of the total existing area is likely unaffected by edge effects and provide suitable habitat conditions for forest-dependent epiphytes. Our results suggest that the resources provided by the current forest cover might be insufficient to support the future of epiphyte communities. Preserving large continuous ‘intact’ forests is probably the only effective conservation strategy for vascular epiphytes.

The role of Eucalyptus planted forests for fruit-feeding butterflies' conservation in fragmented areas of the Brazilian Atlantic forest

2019 ◽  
Vol 432 ◽  
pp. 115-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Nogueira Vasconcelos ◽  
Elaine Cristina Barbosa Cambui ◽  
Eduardo Mariano-Neto ◽  
Pedro Luís Bernardo da Rocha ◽  
Márcio Zikán Cardoso
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Planted Forests

scholarly journals Diversity high up: a cloud forest of the Serra da Mantiqueira as a vascular epiphyte hotspot

Rodriguésia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samyra Gomes Furtado ◽  
Luiz Menini Neto
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
State Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Cloud Forests ◽  
Vascular Epiphytes ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Vascular Epiphyte

Abstract The diversity of montane environments is dictated by a variety of environmental conditions. Parque Estadual do Ibitipoca is located in the Serra da Mantiqueira, between ~1,000-1,800 m, and harbors approximately 300 ha of cloud forests. The composition of vascular epiphytes was determined by analyzing data from expeditions conducted between July 2014 and July 2015, and specimens deposited at herbaria. The 224 species were distributed into 82 genera of which Pleurothallis s.l. was the richest (13 spp.) and 23 families of which Orchidaceae was the richest (87 spp.). This richness corresponds to approximately 9.5% of the vascular epiphytic flora of the Atlantic Forest concentrated in an area that comprises 0.00085% of this phytogeographic domain, which represents one of the largest diversities ever sampled in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. This fact is more relevant given that 13 species are threatened at the country level and 23 at the state level.

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