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Atlantic Forest Southeast Reserves, Brazil

2018
Atlantic Forest Southeast Reserves are in the states of Sao Paulo and Parana, southeastern Brazil. The area comprises the Serra do Mar coastal mountains chain and associated groups of peaks, hills, deep valleys, and coastal areas. The site is formed by 25 protected areas and contains one of the largest and best preserved domains of the Brazilian ...
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The Atlantic Forest During Colonial Brazil

2023
The European conquistadors found a very different version of nature in tropical America. Colonization was possible only with the collaboration of the native peoples, who ensured the survival of the colonizers in this strange environment. In addition to sharing their food culture, the indigenous people showed them not only forest resources that were ...
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Predicting Extinction Risk of Brazilian Atlantic Forest Angiosperms

Conservation Biology, 2014
Abstract Understanding how plant life history affects species vulnerability to anthropogenic disturbances and environmental change is a major ecological challenge. We examined how vegetation type, growth form, and geographic range size relate to extinction risk throughout the Brazilian Atlantic Forest domain.
Leao, Tarciso C. C., Fonseca, Carlos R., Peres, Carlos A., Tabarelli, Marcelo   +3 more
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The Future of the Atlantic Forest

Conservation Biology, 2001
Univ Estadual Paulista, Dept Ecol, Plant Phenol & Seed Dispersal Res Grp, BR-13506900 Sao Paulo ...
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Atlantic Forest Butterflies: Indicators for Landscape Conservation1

BIOTROPICA, 2000
ABSTRACTThe Atlantic Forest region (wide sense) includes very complex tropical environments, increasingly threatened by extensive anthropogenic conversion (>90%). Ecologically specialized, short‐generation insects (butterflies) are evaluated here as indicators for monitoring community richness, landscape integrity, and sustainable resource use in ...
Keith S. Brown, André Victor L. Freitas
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Fishes of the southeastern Brazil Atlantic Forest

Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2014
The largest preserved areas of Atlantic Forest are located in the southeastern region of Brazil. Estuaries, mangroves, rivers and streams are home to a community of fish that is still poorly understood. The composition of fish species and their relationships with environmental conditions were used to identify homogeneous areas within a landscape of 33 ...
Walter Barrella, Abílio Gabriel Martins, Miguel Petrere, Milena Ramires   +3 more
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The Atlantic Forest: An Introduction to the Megadiverse Forest of South America

, 2021
M. Marques, W. Trindade, Amabily Bohn, C. E. Grelle   +3 more
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Causes and Consequences of Large-Scale Defaunation in the Atlantic Forest

, 2021
M. Galetti, F. Gonçalves, Nacho Villar, Valesca Zipparro, Claudia Cristina Paro de Paz, C. Mendes, Laís Lautenschlager, Yuri Souza, Paula Akkawi, F. Pedrosa, Leticia Bulascoschi, C. Bello, A. P. Sevá, L. Sales, Luísa Genes, F. Abra, R. Bovendorp   +16 more
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The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: How much is left, and how is the remaining forest distributed? Implications for conservation

, 2009
M. Ribeiro, J. Metzger, A. C. Martensen, F. Ponzoni, M. Hirota   +4 more
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Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves, Brazil

2018
The Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves, located on the east coast of Brazil, consist of eight separate protected areas containing representative remnants of the rainforest that covered the coast of Brazil (Atlantic Forest), and also by a type of coastal shrubland vegetation called “resting,” associated with the Atlantic Forest. The rainforests of
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