[PDF] Top 20 Vertical distribution of epiphytic bryophytes in Atlantic Forest fragments in northeastern Brazil

... 77% of all species of bryophytes sampled. This result is in agreement with other studies carried out in the Atlantic Forest, where the turnover of species along the ... See full document

... and Atlantic Forest are the two most significant phytogeographic regions in terms of richness for bryophytes in Brazil (Santos et ...extension of humid tropical ... See full document

... The Atlantic Forest in southern Bahia State, Brazil, has high levels of diversity and vascular plant ...surveys of the mountain forests there, however, especially those focusing ... See full document

... factors in determing the dung beetle commu- nity (Gardner et ...The forest coverage and type of vegetation are factors that influ- ence the assemblage of dung beetles in different ... See full document

... the Atlantic Forest domain and showed that different plant groups are affected differently by climate and forest ...abundant in humid sites (Gentry and Dodson, 1987; Richardson et ...survive ... See full document

... the vertical distribution of epiphytes in the forest is due to factors such as availability of space, light exposure and ...occurrence of epiphytes because of the ... See full document

... 48% of the remaining fragments in this region are <10 ha and very few are >1000 ha (Ranta et ...primary forest fragments surrounded by a homogeneous matrix of sugar-cane ... See full document

... guilds of tolerance to light intensity were classified based on Richards (1954); Gradstein (1992); Costa (1999); Gradstein & Costa (2003); Alvarenga & Pôrto (2007); Silva & Pôrto (2009) with the ... See full document

... routes of mineralogical alterations occurring during rhyolite weathering under a humid tropical climate result in a variety of soils that are still little known (Ghani, ...existence of ... See full document

... species in the forest ...(1984) in New Zealand; Roberts et al. (2005) in Tas- man; Rothwell (1991) in the USA; Medeiros et ...(1993), in Hawaii; Cortez (2001) in ... See full document

... out in each season (a total of 40) and all of the leaves and branches within the plots were harvested and transported to the laboratory where the termites were collected manually and later counted ... See full document

... ability of plants to uptake and use nitrogen (N) determines plant growth capacity and the maintenance of physiological processes (MARSCHNER, 1995; MASCLAUX-DAUBRESSE et ...utilization of applied ... See full document

... consisted of few ticks, with mean intensity lower than two ticks/bird (Table ...values of infested birds were statistically similar among native and eucalyptus plots (Chi-Sq =  ... See full document

... aid of aerial photographs and satellite imagery, and was determined from the year that the hedgerow ceased to receive maintenance such as weeding and ...a forest structure (with a gap of less than 30 ... See full document

... Tropical of the Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia (UFRA) and Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) for the infrastructure and additional support; to the Ferreira Penna Research Station for the infrastructure ... See full document

... species in the graph and found that those distributions correlated significantly with temperature (r² = ...amplitude of variation during the study period, also seems to strongly influence the sporulation ... See full document

... recorded in the northwestern region of the São Paulo state (Provete et ...2011). In this study, we recorded approximately 65% of all species that occur in the ...observed in this ... See full document

... demand of coal for meeting the requirement of the country paved to exploit the coal by opencast mechanized mining at ever increasing stripping ...use of dragline is being made in view ... See full document

... richness in Neotropical localities is generally higher than that of any other group of mammals, and surveys of local bat assemblages may provide useful data for conservation management ... See full document

... Bromeliads in neotropical forests serve as habitats for bacteria (Haubrich et ...cisterns of bromeliads (Montero et ...found in such habitats in immature forms, mainly beetles and flies ... See full document