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1985 - Gale Group | World Scholar Latin America
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Douglas Antônio de Carvalho, Fernando Roberto Martins,
... about variations in the floristic community of Brazilian cerrado, especially in regard to soil and climate conditions, ... presented the largest number of species. Although the cerrado of southwest Minas Gerais extends over marginal areas of occurrence of Brazilian cerrado, its floristic composition is rich not only in ... genera and families. Some species found in these cerrados also occur in local semideciduous forests, while other ... that are frequently found in other areas of cerrado were not found in southwest Minas Gerais. Tibouchina ...
Tópico(s): Fern and Epiphyte Biology
2009 - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE LAVRAS | CERNE
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Jessica Khine, Andrew H. Tripp, Robert Walls, Mike Boxall, Lubos Pastor Professor, Thomas F. Maher Director, Peter Ainsworth Managing director, Romano Prodi, Donald Casswell,
... ruins UNESCO and Georgia The miracle of the cerrado Trouble ahead High-speed rail in Europe Middle ...
2010 - Gale Group | The Economist
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Marcus V. Cianciaruso, MA. Batalha,
... the largest seasonal savanna region is the Brazilian cerrado. Our aim was to study temporal changes in ... plant density, and cylindrical volume, in a seasonal cerrado, comparing it to a nearby hyperseasonal cerrado. In four different seasons, we placed randomly ten ... pronounced in the seasonal than in the hyperseasonal cerrado. Floristic similarity between the vegetation forms was lower when the hyperseasonal cerrado was waterlogged. Richness and species density were higher in the seasonal cerrado, which reached its biomass peak at mid rainy ...
Tópico(s): Soil erosion and sediment transport
2009 - Instituto Internacional de Ecologia (Brazil) | Brazilian Journal of Biology
Nine species of lizards are sympatric in cerrado habitats in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, including one polychrid (Anolis meridionalis), three tropidurids (Tropidurus etheridgei, T. cf. montanus, and T. spinulosus), ... caatinga or lowland rainforest. Most striking in the cerrado lizard fauna is the lack of gekkonids, which ... different habitats than to unrelated sympatric species. The cerrados represent one of the largest vegetational zones of ... are isolated patches north of the Amazon Basin. Cerrados consist of a patchwork of at least four ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
1991 - The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles | Journal of Herpetology
Mara Patrícia Pais, Elenice Mouro Varanda,
Cerrado vegetation is composed of a mosaic of vegetation types, from campo sujo, dominated by herbs; campo cerrado and cerrado sensu stricto, with shrubby vegetation; to cerradão, with ... differences in the water availability in the soil. Cerrado plants are considered physically and chemically well defended ... defensive mechanisms and the nutritional traits of a cerrado plant, Didymopanax vinosum (Cham. & Schltdl.) Seem. (Apiaceae), were ... mature leaves of D. vinosum collected in campo cerrado, cerrado sensu stricto (s.s.) and cerradão. Plants ...
Tópico(s): Weed Control and Herbicide Applications
2003 - Sociedade Botânica do Brasil | Acta Botanica Brasilica
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Giselda Durigan, Marinez Ferreira de Siqueira, Geraldo Antônio Daher Corrêa Franco, Samuel Bridgewater, J. A. Ratter,
Natural cerrado vegetation in São Paulo State now covers less than 7% of its original area and exists only ... isolated fragments. Eighty-six sites in these priority cerrado conservation areas were surveyed using a rapid assessment ... The vegetation types encountered comprised: campo sujo, campo cerrado, cerrado sensu stricto, cerradão, wet campo, riparian forest, swamp forest, ecotone cerrado/forest and seasonal semi-deciduous forest. Two-Way ... groups: (a) areas where more open forms of cerrado occur (cerrado sensu stricto, campo cerrado); (b) areas ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
2003 - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh | Edinburgh Journal of Botany
J. Boone Kauffman, Dian L. Cummings, Darold E. Ward,
... from grassland (campo limpo) to open evergreen woodland (cerrado sensu stricto) in the Brazilian Cerrado. 2 The biomass of the fuel loads (i. ... in campo limpo to 10031 kg ha-' in cerrado sensu stricto. Grasses comprised 91-94% of the ... limpo and campo sujo grasslands. In the campo cerrado and cerrado sensu stricto communities, graminoids comprised only 27% of ... and 84% of the fuel load in campo cerrado and cerrado sensu stricto, respectively. The total residual mass (uncombusted ... sujo but was 2 36% in the campo cerrado and cerrado sensu stricto. A circular relationship existed ...
Tópico(s): Rangeland and Wildlife Management
1994 - Wiley | Journal of Ecology
Produção Nacional
Ricardo J. Sawaya, Otávio Augusto Vuolo Marques, Marcio Roberto Martins,
... present high species richness and complex structures. The Cerrado is the second largest biome in Brazil, and ... s biodiversity hotspots. In southeastern Brazil, the remnant Cerrado areas have suffered intense destruction, and presently less than 2% of Cerrado natural vegetation remain in São Paulo state. Virtually no detailed study on Cerrado snakes was carried out in this region. The ... of the last well preserved remnants of open cerrado in São Paulo state. Our purpose in this ... study of natural history and composition of the Cerrado snakes of Itirapina region. We performed an extensive ...
Tópico(s): Animal and Plant Science Education
2008 - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de SP | Biota Neopropica/Biota Neotropica
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
... role on community convergence into functional groups. Seasonal cerrados are characterized by a sharp seasonality, in which the water shortage defines the community functioning. Hyperseasonal cerrados experience additionally waterlogging in the rainy season. Here, ... species convergences into life-forms in a hyperseasonal cerrado. We studied a hyperseasonal cerrado, comparing it with a nearby seasonal cerrado, never waterlogged, in Emas National Park, central Brazil. ... the species convergences into life-forms in both cerrados using the Raunkiaer's life-form spectrum and ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2008 - Instituto Internacional de Ecologia (Brazil) | Brazilian Journal of Biology
Produção Nacional
Cybele de Oliveira Araújo, Décio Tadeu Corrêa Filho, Ricardo J. Sawaya,
Despite the great extension of the Cerrado and its importance for biodiversity conservation, there are still sampling gaps in this region that has shown conspicuous changes over the years ... pastures and plantations. Around 88.5% of the Cerrado areas in the State of the São Paulo ... and less than 0.81% of the original Cerrado vegetation remains as pristine habitats, although these areas ... Estação Ecológica de Santa Bárbara, a remnant of Cerrado in the State of São Paulo, in addition ... 18 species; 49 individuals) were found in open Cerrado formations. No individual was observed in the sampled ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
2010 - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de SP | Biota Neopropica/Biota Neotropica
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Leonardo Fernandes França, Miguel Ângelo Marini,
... Chapada Flycatchers (Suiriri islerorum) are endemic to the Cerrado region of Brazil, dependent on open cerrado habitat, defend large territories, and their populations seem ... Suiriri islerorum) es endémico a la región de Cerrado en Brasil, depende de áreas abiertas de hábitat "cerrado" donde defienden un territorio de gran tamaño y ... conservação de Suiriri islerorum, um passeriforme endêmico do Cerrado. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Brasília , Brasília , DF , ... R. B. Machado. 2005. Conservation of the Brazilian Cerrado. Conservation Biology 19: 707– 713. Lebreton, J. D., ...
Tópico(s): Economic and Environmental Valuation
2010 - Association of Field Ornithologists | Journal of Field Ornithology
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Marco Antônio Batalha, Marcus V. Cianciaruso, José Carlos Motta-Junior,
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 ... 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. ... threatened endemics (Marini & Garcia 2005).Some birds in Cerrado live preferentially in open cerrado physiognomies, but they ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
2010 - Elsevier BV | Natureza & Conservação
Produção Nacional
Thaís Almeida Lima, José Roberto Rodrigues Pinto, Eddie Lenza, Alexandre de Siqueira Pinto,
O cerrado sentido restrito é a fitofisionomia predominante do bioma Cerrado, ocupando grandes extensões do Planalto Central brasileiro. Quando ... desenvolve sobre Neossolos Litólicos recebe a denominação de cerrado rupestre. O conhecimento sobre as comunidades arbustivo-arbóreas deste subtipo fitofisionômico do Cerrado é muito limitado. O objetivo deste estudo foi ... da vegetação arbustivo-arbórea em uma área de cerrado rupestre localizada no Parque Estadual da Serra de ... e estruturais com aquelas de outras áreas de cerrado sentido restrito localizadas no Brasil Central. Foram amostrados ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2010 - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de SP | Biota Neopropica/Biota Neotropica
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Priscilla Kobayashi Amorim, Marco Antônio Batalha,
... America, the largest savanna region is the Brazilian cerrado, in which there are few areas that become ... the rainy season. However, we found a small cerrado area in which the soil is poorly drained ... rainy season, allowing the appearance of a hyperseasonal cerrado. We investigated the soil–vegetation relationships in three vegetation forms: hyperseasonal cerrado, seasonal cerrado, and wet grassland. We collected vegetation and soil ... analysis. Our results showed a distinction among hyperseasonal cerrado, seasonal cerrado and wet grassland, which presented different ...
Tópico(s): Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals
2007 - Elsevier BV | Acta Oecologica
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Cristiano de Campos Nogueira, Síria Ribeiro, Gabriel C. Costa, Guarino Rinaldi Colli,
... vicariance model, to define basic biogeographical units for Cerrado squamates, and to discuss previous biogeographical hypotheses. Location Cerrado; South American savannas south of the Amazon, extending ... and areas of endemism. Results We recorded 267 Cerrado squamates, of which 103 (39%) are endemics, including ... with major topographical and vegetational divisions of the Cerrado. Endemism prevailed in open, elevated plateaus, whereas faunal ... results indicate that vicariant speciation has strongly shaped Cerrado squamate diversity, in contrast to earlier studies emphasizing ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
2011 - Wiley | Journal of Biogeography
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Marco Antônio Batalha, Igor Aurélio Silva, Marcus V. Cianciaruso, Gustavo Henrique Carvalho,
During the Neogene, the Brazilian cerrado became established as a large‐scale vegetation type. Cerrado lineages started to diversify less than 10 million years ago, coinciding with ... grasses and the expansion of the savanna biome. Cerrado lineages are strongly associated with adaptations to fire ... in fire‐free nearby forests, implying that the cerrado formed in situ via adaptive shifts to resist ... of biological traits, we investigated trait diversity of cerrado woody species in a phylogenetic context, sampling a ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2011 - Wiley | Oikos
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
P. K. Amorim, Marco Antônio Batalha,
... America, the largest savanna region is the Brazilian cerrado, in which there are few hyperseasonal areas that become waterlogged in the rainy season. The cerrado soils are generally well drained, but in central Brazil there is a small cerrado area in which the soil is poorly drained ... rainy season, allowing the appearance of a hyperseasonal cerrado. As long as soil is important in the ecology of the cerrado vegetation, we asked whether the waterlogging in this hyperseasonal cerrado implied that there were differences in soil characteristics ...
Tópico(s): Soil erosion and sediment transport
2006 - Instituto Internacional de Ecologia (Brazil) | Brazilian Journal of Biology
Sérvio Pontes Ribeiro, V. K. Brown,
... ochracea and T. aurea are sympatric in the cerrado (Brazilian savanna), whereas T. aurea also colonizes floodplains ... monodominant stands, but is sparsely distributed in the cerrado. We test the hypothesis that T. aurea has ... vigorous genotype in the Pantanal than in the cerrado, which may be due to a lower negative ... aurea , and is thus more successful in the cerrado. Kruskal–Wallis analysis and Wilcoxon paired‐sample tests ... of T. aurea survived and germinated in the cerrado than in the Pantanal, but seedlings from the ...
Tópico(s): Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
2006 - Wiley | Journal of Ecology
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Fernanda P. Werneck, Cristiano de Campos Nogueira, Guarino Rinaldi Colli, Jack W. Sites, Gabriel C. Costa,
... Aim To investigate the historical distribution of the Cerrado across Quaternary climatic fluctuations and to generate historical ... stability hypothesis explains squamate reptile richness in the Cerrado; and (2) the hypothesis of Pleistocene connections between ... located north and south of Amazonia. Location The Cerrado, a savanna biome and a global biodiversity hotspot ... randomly selected from the entire distribution of the Cerrado, as determined by two spatial definitions. We modelled the potential Cerrado distribution by implementing a maximum‐entropy machine‐learning ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
2012 - Wiley | Journal of Biogeography
Produção Nacional
Roque Cielo-Filho, Osny Tadeu de Aguiar, João Batista Baitello, João Aurélio Pastore, Maria Teresa Zugliani Toniato, Silvana Cristina Pereira Muniz de Souza, Conceição Rodrigues de Lima, Renan Soares de Almeida, Natalia de Oliveira Costa,
... de proteção integral com cobertura vegetal predominante de cerrado denso e cerradão, cuja ocorrência na região representa o limite meridional de distribuição do cerrado sensu lato. Buscando conhecer a flora regional e ... espécies em sete diferentes fisionomias. Nas fisionomias de cerrado sensu lato foram encontradas 346 espécies distribuídas em ... da EEcI não difere de outros remanescentes de cerrado sensu lato em latitudes mais baixas. Contudo, espécies ... similaridade florística observada entre os extremos fisionômicos de cerrado sensu lato de interflúvio na EEcI: cerradão e ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2012 - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de SP | Biota Neopropica/Biota Neotropica
Paula Hanna Valdujo, Ana Carolina Carnaval, Catherine H. Graham,
... beta diversity in anuran species in the Brazilian Cerrado. Specifically, we use a generalized dissimilarity modeling (GDM) ... a function of geographic separation and local (within‐Cerrado) environmental conditions. To gain insight about potential historical ... we incorporate information from biomes adjacent to the Cerrado to investigate whether environmental conditions in neighboring areas ... help explain patterns of beta diversity within the Cerrado. Patterns of anuran beta diversity of both endemics and all species in the Cerrado appear to be strongly influenced by local environmental ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2012 - Wiley | Ecography
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Giselda Durigan, Antônio Carlos Galvão de Melo, J. Stephen Brewer,
Background: The Brazilian savanna, or Cerrado, has been described as an 'upside-down forest', with higher below-ground than above-ground biomass. The cerrado vegetation, ranging from open grasslands to forests, comprises ... shoot ratio in 102 trees differed between open- (cerrado sensu stricto) and closed-canopy cerrado (cerradão) within the same region in south-eastern ... shoot ratios and environmental conditions between the two cerrado types were examined, by uprooting and weighing trees ... higher in the open than in the closed cerrado, especially among deciduous species. Root:shoot ratio in ...
Tópico(s): Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
2012 - Taylor & Francis | Plant Ecology & Diversity
Produção Nacional
... possui 1.801 espécies de aves e o Cerrado abriga 856 dessas espécies. Esse bioma que cobre ... das Araras (EESA) ocupa 28.700 hectares de Cerrado no sudoeste do Mato Grosso, faz parte da ... 40 km de largura, o qual conecta o Cerrado à transição do bioma Amazônico e ao Pantanal. ... das seguintes fitofisionomias: mata semidecídua, mata ciliar, cerradão, cerrado sentido restrito e parque cerrado. Cada transecto foi amostrado uma vez por mês, ... 431 espécies de aves, incluindo treze endêmicas do Cerrado e sete nacionalmente ameaçadas de extinção. Dessas, 396 ...
Tópico(s): Forest ecology and management
2012 - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de SP | Biota Neopropica/Biota Neotropica
Produção Nacional
Paula Hanna Valdujo, Débora Leite Silvano, Guarino Rinaldi Colli, Marcio Roberto Martins,
... the distribution patterns of anuran amphibians within the Cerrado domain of South America in a historical framework. ... and the distribution of species occurring both in Cerrado and each of the adjoining domains, providing directions ... found 209 anuran species occurring in localities within Cerrado. Among them, 150 are primarily associated with Cerrado, and 59 are typical of one of the Cerrado adjoining domains. Widespread species account for only 14% of the Cerrado typical species. Species occurring in Cerrado and one ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
2012 - | South American Journal of Herpetology
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
J.L.I. Demattê, José Alexandre Melo Demattê,
... propriedades dos solos das regiões Amazônica e de cerrado. Para a região de cerrado, selecionou-se 17 perfis do Triângulo Mineiro, 6 ... camada de serapilheira. Os solos da região do cerrado são mais intemperizados do que os da região ... Amazônia não difere da CTC dos solos de cerrado. Na região Amazônica os latossolos apresentam Ki diferenciado, ... Ki superior a 2,0. Na região de cerrado o Ki varia de 0,6 a 1, ... significativamente superiores do que os da região de cerrado, o que requer mais corretivos de que o ...
Tópico(s): Soil Management and Crop Yield
1993 - UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO | Scientia Agricola
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Carlos Augusto Klink, Ricardo B. Machado,
Abstract: The Cerrado is one of the world's biodiversity hotspots. In the last 35 years, more than 50% of its ... and agricultural lands planted in cash crops. The Cerrado has the richest flora among the world's ... low. Deforestation rates have been higher in the Cerrado than in the Amazon rainforest, and conservation efforts ... areas. Soil erosion, the degradation of the diverse Cerrado vegetation formations, and the spread of exotic grasses ... pasture has also caused damage, even though the Cerrado is a fire-adapted ecosystem. Ecosystem experiments and ...
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2005 - Wiley | Conservation Biology