Mountain biodiversity in Brazil
By G. Martinelli. 2007
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The high species richness and diversity found in tropical montane habitats are often related to: 1) an effect of climatic and geological history on biotic evolution; 2) the various environmental impacts on species adaptation mechanisms; and 3) the continuous dispersal of fauna and flora in time. However, little is known about how these factors shaped species richness in Brazilian mountains. Official documents on biodiversity in Brazil make no explicit reference to mountains, even though there is a mountain work programme of the Convention on Biological Diversity, which Brazil is a signatory of. This paper discusses the importance of mountain ecosystems in Brazil to show the urgent need to include mountain biodiversity in the national agenda of biodiversity research and conservation.
Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Social Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- Growing knowledge: an overview of Seed Plant diversity in Brazil (2015, background): “In the Atlantic Rainforest the rupicolous substrate is the third most relevant following terrestrial and epiphytic, and this can be explained by the Altitude grassland (Martinelli 2007) as well as the Rock outcrop vegetation type, a term used for non-crystalline outcrops generally at lower altitude ”
- Angiospermas em remanescentes de floresta montana no sul da Bahia, Brasil (2009, background): “Duas das áreas estudadas (e.g., Serra das Lontras e Serra Bonita) foram apontadas por Martinelli (2007) como áreas do Brasil ainda desprovidas de inventários, mas extremamente importantes para subsidiar ações em políticas de conservação internacional.”