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The Cerrados of Brazil: Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Savanna
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This volume accompanies Flora of China text Volume 4, published in 1999, and includes 394 figures representing 816 species in the families Cycadaceae, Ginkgoaceae, Pinaceae, Taxodiaceae, and Fagaceae.Abstract:
This volume accompanies Flora of China text Volume 4, published in 1999. Included are 394 figures representing 816 species (;75% of the taxa represented in the text volume) in the families Cycadaceae (8 species), Ginkgoaceae (1 species), Araucariaceae (2 species), Pinaceae (84 species), Taxodiaceae (11 species), Cupressaceae (27 species), Cephalotaxaceae (9 species), Taxaceae (11 species), Ephedraceae (14 species), Gnetaceae (6 species), Casuarinaceae (2 species), Saururaceae (3 species), Piperaceae (42 species), Chloranthaceae (11 species), Salicaceae (240 species), Myricaceae (4 species), Junglandaceae (24 species), Betulaceae (62 species), and Fagaceae (242 species). The Sciadopityaceae, included in the text volume, is omitted from the illustrations volume.read more
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Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order
Richard J. Hobbs,Salvatore Arico,James Aronson,Jill S. Baron,Peter Bridgewater,Viki A. Cramer,Paul R. Epstein,John J. Ewel,Carlos A. Klink,Ariel E. Lugo,David A. Norton,Dennis S. Ojima,David M. Richardson,Eric W. Sanderson,Fernando Valladares,Montserrat Vilà,Regino Zamora,Martin Zobel +17 more
TL;DR: The issues relevant to those types of ecosystems containing new combinations of species that arise through human action, environmental change, and the impacts of the deliberate and inadvertent introduction of species from other regions are explored.
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Land cover mapping of the tropical savanna region in Brazil.
TL;DR: The final Cerrado’s land cover map confirmed the intensive land use pressure in this unique biome and showed that Landsat-like sensors can provide feasible land cover maps of Cerrados, although ancillary data are required to help image interpretation.
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The diversification of eastern South American open vegetation biomes: Historical biogeography and perspectives
TL;DR: This work compile and evaluate the biogeographic hypotheses previously proposed for the diversification of these three major open biomes, specifically their distributions located eastern and southern of Andes, and generates predictions and provides a background for testable hypotheses.
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Fire-mediated dieback and compositional cascade in an Amazonian forest.
Jos Barlow,Carlos A. Peres +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that episodic wildfires can lead to drastic changes in forest structure and composition, with cascading shifts in forest composition following each additional fire event, to evaluate the validity of the savannization paradigm.
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Comparative fire ecology of tropical savanna and forest trees
TL;DR: Differences in fire-related traits may largely explain the greater capacity of savanna species to persist in the savanna environment.
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Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities
Norman Myers,Russell A. Mittermeier,Cristina G. Mittermeier,Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca,Jennifer Kent +4 more
TL;DR: A ‘silver bullet’ strategy on the part of conservation planners, focusing on ‘biodiversity hotspots’ where exceptional concentrations of endemic species are undergoing exceptional loss of habitat, is proposed.