[PDF] Top 20 Fruits of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: allying biodiversity conservation and food security

... diseases, the use of temperate climate cultivars in tropical regions can become very costly (Frison ...source of genetic variability with the magnitude, complexity and adaptability ... See full document

... most of the available resources irrespective of whether production during the year is high or ...On the other hand, the large variation in the number of fruit ... See full document

... view of biodiversity has ...in the study of Brazil main biomes like Atlantic Forest, Amazonia and also Cerrado ...Oliveira and Marquis 2002, gottsberger and ... See full document

... regions and is native to the Atlantic Forest and ...provide food for Cracidae (Penelope ochrogaster and Aburria cumanensis); Ramphastidae (Ramphastos toco), Cotingidae ... See full document

... Although the majority of threatened species are likely to be tropical insects, knowledge of the diversity, ecological role and impact of insect biodiversity loss on ... See full document

... – The “Serra do Mar” region comprises the largest remnant of the Brazilian Atlantic ...Forest. The coast of the Paraná State is part of ... See full document

... if the roadkill of big cats are viewed as sporadic events in the BR-101 Highway, the negative effect of the loss of a single specimen is serious enough for the ... See full document

... surrounding conservation units where human activities are subject to rules and restrictions, in order to minimize negative impacts on protected ...complex and some of the practices ... See full document

... great biodiversity, the Atlantic Forest is one of the main targets of environmental degradation by exploita- tive human activities, such as the expansion of ... See full document

... use of land in Minas Gerais (MG) for the crops of coffee, sugarcane and for pastures, emphasizes the degraded status of its natural remnants, especially in the Zona da ... See full document

... equilibrium. The bottle- neck that was detected in the present study possibly started when intense deforestation occurred in the Araucaria Forest in south ...From the early 1900’s, this ... See full document

... similar of the old adage of putting all your eggs on a single basket (see Ricketts et ...2005). Conservation outcomes were most sensitive to uncertainty in the land cost data, because ... See full document

... bags and frozen afterwards. Data on the presence and absence of the present study and the literature (Sunaga and Verani, 1991; Godinho et ...composition of ... See full document

... contribution of the physicogenic morphological class, followed by the intermediate and biogenic classes (Table ...although the biogenic aggregation is faster in formation, it requires ... See full document

... diverse and ubiquitous organisms. Such biodiversity is barely known, making room for a great potential still to be discovered, especially in tropical environments - which are favorable to growth and ... See full document

... III) and contributed to explaining the differences between two fl oristic sets: the coastal (CL and CH) and the inland subregions (CD, IH, and ...Oliveira-Filho and ... See full document

... to the stem volume models. Their RMSE ranged from 0.17 to 0.20 m³ and MAPE ranged from ...72.3%. The greatest performance was achieved by model 4 according to the w(AIC) (Table ...as ... See full document

... pattern of species abundances observed in both reserves, in which a few species are very abundant (Geoplana ...1 and Pasipha hauseri), others are moderately represented, and many are rare species, ... See full document

... within the treehopper tribe Membracini. The members of this genus are all morphologically similar, making the spe- cies identification very ...difficult. The main features that define ... See full document

... that the muriqui population in FMAR is around 300 individuals (Strier, 2010 ), and considering that our study spanned approximately one year, our conservative estimate of 1-5 muriquis killed/year ... See full document