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Consequences of Simulated Loss of Open Cerrado Areas to Bird Functional Diversity

2010; Elsevier BV; Volume: 08; Issue: 01 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4322/natcon.00801005

2178-3675

Marco Antônio Batalha, Marcus V. Cianciaruso, José Carlos Motta-Junior,

Species Distribution and Climate Change

diversity and threatened conservation status, the Cerrado remains 'forgotten' (Marris 2005).Even if some attempts have been made to conserve closed cerrado physiognomies, open cerrado physiognomies, richer in species and more fragile (Castro et al. 1999), have been systematically ignored.For instance, São Paulo State (2009) passed recently a law intended to conserve the cerrado vegetation, but which, for some inexplicable reason, does not include open cerrado physiognomies.Concerning bird diversity, the Cerrado contains 777 resident species (Silva & Santos 2005), 4.6% of which are endemic, ranking second among Brazilian phytogeographical domains in the number of threatened species and threatened endemics (Marini & Garcia 2005).Some birds in Cerrado live preferentially in open cerrado physiognomies, but they need a mosaic of habitats, and opportunity to move among them is a crucial premise for maintaining their populations (Piratelli & Blake 2006).Other bird species live exclusively in open cerrado physiognomies, growing, feeding, breeding, and nesting on them (Bagno & Marinho-Filho 2001).Open physiognomies are used by almost half of the Cerrado bird species, many of which being endemics (Silva 1995).