[PDF] Top 20 The study of biotic interactions in the Brazilian Cerrado as a path to the conservation of biodiversity

... ubiquitous, the outcomes of each interaction vary depending on physical and biotic changes in the ...modifying the results of the interactions (see Del-Claro ... See full document

... raised, to explain the mechanisms that shaped Amazonian ...biodiversity. The oldest is the Riverine Barrier Hypothesis, postulated by Alfred Russel Wallace, in ...from the ... See full document

... this study system, overall plant-insect interaction networks were characterised as young, small, simplified and relatively generalized nested networks, with no existence of subgroups formation or ... See full document

... revision of Brazil’s major biodiversity conservation strategies is necessary in order to contain ...lead to the long-term conservation of ... See full document

... revision of Brazil’s major biodiversity conservation strategies is necessary in order to contain ...lead to the long-term conservation of ... See full document

... studies in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest were conducted among traditional coastal populations, called caiçaras, and point out the relevance of native ...percent of the ... 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 ... See full document

... those of the northern part of the biome, because well preserved natural habitats allow more gene flow and increase in effective population ...efficient conservation strategies ... See full document

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

... selection of indicator groups of biodiversity is an important aspect of the systematic conservation ...fer in the spatial scales, in the methods used ... See full document

... richness in the dry season (August-November), especially at Icoaraci, Arapiranga and Combu ...for the larger traps – known locally as “mundurus” – to capture a higher diversity of ... See full document

... The conservation of genetic diversity is of paramount importance for long-term species survival because the maintenance of gene pools with sufficient variability is necessary for ... See full document

... 2000). In addition, they can act as indicator species for the success of conservation programs in the network (Miller and Rabinowitz, 2002; Loveridge et ...evaluation of ... See full document

... role in environmental ...one of the most up to date role of scientific sketching: to make the gene- ral population aware of the beauty and rich- ness ... See full document

... to the loss o large areas o orest along the highway (Barni et ...and in Amapá, practically all the de orestation that has occurred in recent years has occurred immedi- ately ... See full document

... intends to provide a deep insight into the ribeirinhos way of using natural ...as the manifestation of a conservation ethic that is grounded in a long-standing process ... See full document

... In the past years the higher taxa approach has been studied as a useful tool for describing patterns of biodiversity (Gaston ...Since the 1990’s, up until the present, ... See full document

... important in the scientific value of biodiversity because of the size of its territory, the diversity of its biomes, the size of its river ... See full document

... for the assessment of the dietary strategies of the inhabitants of each study ...plotting the abundance and frequency of occurrence of each item. ... See full document

... is the preference of using low order (= short distance) expressions of spatial struc- ture, in which close localities are more heavily weighted, when compared to distant ...that ... See full document