Outstanding plant endemism levels strongly support the recognition of campo rupestre provinces in mountaintops of eastern South America

By Matheus Colli‐Silva, T. Vasconcelos, J. Pirani. Journal of Biogeography, 2019

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The Brazilian campo rupestre is a vegetation associated to ancient mountaintops in eastern South America, spread mainly over disjunct areas of the Espinhaço Range and the Chapada dos Veadeiros. These areas hold outstanding levels of plant diversity and endemism, but despite their uniqueness they have been neglected in recent bioregionalizations for the Neotropical region. Given their particular levels of species richness and endemism, we here test the recognition of these as distinct bioregions within the Chacoan dominion.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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