[PDF] Top 20 Edge-related loss of tree phylogenetic diversity in the severely fragmented Brazilian Atlantic forest.

... In the last two decades many studies have documented the local extirpation of plant and animal species from fragmented tropical rainforests [20,24,37], particularly from forest ... See full document

... mitigate the impact of greenhouse gases, the United Nations created a mechanism to advance forest carbon and biodiversity saving initiatives through Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and ... See full document

... and the establishment of artificial forest edges. Long-term tree inventories in the Amazon region have documented a chronic, increased mortality of large trees near ... See full document

... phylobeta- diversity measures to compare the forest types within the Southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest (see Table ...computes the mean phylogenetic distance ... See full document

... populations in a very fragmented region on North-western ...methods of analysis, one based on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and the other on nuclear DNA ...genetic diversity within ... See full document

... 2% of the dry mass of a forest, its photosynthetic biomass, photosynthesis rate and ion capture rate can equal, or even surpass, that of the trees (Nadkarni 1984; Coxson & ... See full document

... minute tree-fungus beetles occurring in almost all terrestrial ...basidiomes of macrofungi, and are thus considered being micetobiont organisms and the most diverse and abundant taxon ... See full document

... distributions in corridors with different widths (Cervinka et ...species in narrow hedgerows, pos- sibly due to lateral light penetration, and higher zoochoric abundance, reflecting an increase in ... See full document

... The Atlantic Forest is home bristle 1-8% of all the flora and fauna of the ...world. In particular bats this biome represent about 64% of all species ... See full document

... 2010). The high values of functional evenness ...2015). The similarities of distribution in reproductive traits also explain the high functional evenness since it will be ... See full document

... transects in each differently disturbed ...arranged in a line and placed approximately two meters apart from each other. The pitfall traps were made of 500 ml plastic containers that were ... See full document

... Dissertation in Ecology, Conservation and Management of ...makes the difference in South America? Biological Invasions, ...1991. The fish communities of the lakes ... See full document

... Principles of Forest Fragmentation and Conservation in the ...Amazon. In Bierregaard, ...Amazonia: The Ecology and Conservation of a Fragmented Forest - Yale ... See full document

... types in extra-Andean tropical and subtropical South America, aimed primarily at describing vegetation types at finer scales than those allowed by the IBGE system (< 1:10 ...Because of its finer ... See full document

... deciduous forest (SSF), mixed ombrophilous forest (MOF), and dense ombrophilous forest ...four in SSF, five in MOF and three in DOF (Figs 1 and 2). The sites were selected ... See full document

... district of Saquarema has outstanding differences in terms of the conservation of its restingas between the western and eastern ...portions. The western portion, locally ... See full document

... proportion of polymorphic loci detected for populations of ...to the values detected for Gaultheria fragrantissima (86 %), which is also a dioecious shrub, usually found on forest edges (Apte ... See full document

... resources in producing immobile defenses, such as lignin or total phenols, displaying lower herbivory rates (Coley 1983, Coley et ...2011). Tree species adapted to these environments exhibit lower capacity ... See full document

... self-pollination in the studied species, they probably are ...prevalent in tropical trees (Bawa 1974; Bawa et al. 1985b). In fact, several tropical Leguminosae tree species, such as ... See full document

... Shannon diversity (H’) index of ...index of 0.71 were obtained. Studies in non-alluvial MOF of this region showed diversity and evenness values ranging from ...0.70 in ... See full document