The relationship between forest fire and deforestation in the southeast Atlantic rainforest. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Given the scarcity of studies relating fire to deforestation in the Atlantic Forest and great economic and ecological importances of this biome, this work aimed to investigate this relationship in the Atlantic Forest of the State of São Paulo, trying to ...
de Praga Baião CF +5 more
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A human case of spotted fever caused by Rickettsia parkeri strain Atlantic rainforest and its association to the tick Amblyomma ovale [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2019 Background Rickettsia parkeri strain Atlantic rainforest has emerged in Brazil during the last 10 years, with three laboratory-confirmed human cases. While these cases were epidemiologically associated with the tick Amblyomma ovale, in none of them the ...
Anaiá da Paixão Sevá +7 more
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Diversity and conservation of Pottiaceae (Pottiales) in the Atlantic Rainforest [PDF]
Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2015 The taxonomy, diversity and conservation status of all species of the family Pottiaceae in the Atlantic Rainforest of Rio de Janeiro State in southeastern Brazil are presented. The Atlantic Rainforest is a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot.
Denise Pinheiro da Costa
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Natural history predicts patterns of thermal vulnerability in amphibians from the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2021 In the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest (AF), amphibians (625 species) face habitat degradation leading to stressful thermal conditions that constrain animal activity (e.g., foraging and reproduction).
Carilo Filho LM +6 more
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Mapping Atlantic rainforest degradation and regeneration history with indicator species using convolutional network. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 The Atlantic rainforest of Brazil is one of the global terrestrial hotspots of biodiversity. Despite having undergone large scale deforestation, forest cover has shown signs of increases in the last decades.
Wagner FH +8 more
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Host migration and environmental temperature influence avian haemosporidians prevalence: a molecular survey in a Brazilian Atlantic rainforest. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Avian haemosporidians are parasites with great capacity to spread to new environments and new hosts, being considered a good model to host-parasite interactions studies.
Rodrigues RA +4 more
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Human Rickettsiosis Caused by Rickettsia parkeri Strain Atlantic Rainforest, Urabá, Colombia. [PDF]
Emerg Infect Dis, 2020 We describe the clinical, serologic, and molecular findings of a new human rickettsiosis in Colombia. Antibodies against Rickettsia spp. were detected. PCR showed amplification of genes for R. parkeri strain Atlantic Rainforest. This new rickettsiosis of
Arboleda M +6 more
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Cudbear and the Colours of the Atlantic Rainforest
HeritageThe temperate rainforests and their associated coastline in Scotland have long been home to dye-producing plants including lichens, some commercialised and patented by George and Cuthbert Gordon in 1758 as the dye Cudbear.
Vanessa Habib
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Forest recovery prognostics in conservation units of the Atlantic rainforest
Ecological Informatics, 2021 Forest growth models can provide valuable support tools for forest recovery assessment and forestry management, whether in the form of diagnostic or prognostic. Furthremore, they can be applied to characterize each phytophysiognomy in terms of vegetation
L. A. Richit +4 more
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Hidden diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest: the discovery of Jurasaidae, a new beetle family (Coleoptera, Elateroidea) with neotenic females. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 Beetles are the most species-rich animal radiation and are among the historically most intensively studied insect groups. Consequently, the vast majority of their higher-level taxa had already been described about a century ago. In the 21st century, thus
Rosa SP, Costa C, Kramp K, Kundrata R.
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