Modeling Climate Change Impacts on a Socioeconomically Vital Plant: The Case of Comanthera elegans (Goldenfoot Flower) [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionComanthera elegans is a threatened, endemic species of the campos rupestres of the Espinhaço Mountain Range—a region recognized as a biodiversity hotspot—and has great ecological and societal relevance to local traditional communities.
Maria Luiza deAzevedo +8 more
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The ichthyofauna of a poorly known area in the middle-southern Espinhaço mountain range, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil: diagnostics and identification keys [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2021 Knowledge about the taxonomy and fish composition from the upper rio Paraúna (rio São Francisco basin) and upper rio Santo Antônio (rio Doce basin) in the middle portion of the Southern Espinhaço mountain range, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil is still ...
Sérgio Alexandre dos Santos +1 more
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A new four-pored Amphisbaena Linnaeus, 1758 (Amphisbaenia, Amphisbaenidae) from the north of Espinhaço Mountain Range, Brazil [PDF]
ZooKeysA new species of Amphisbaena is described from the north of Espinhaço Mountain Range, municipality of Caetité, state of Bahia, Brazil. Amphisbaena amethysta sp. nov.
Síria Ribeiro +7 more
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Pedological and isotopic relations of a highland tropical peatland, Mountain Range of the Espinhaço Meridional (Brazil) [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 2011 The evolution of organic matter sources in soil is related to climate and vegetation dynamics in the past recorded in paleoenvironmental Quaternary deposits such as peatlands.
Ingrid Horák +3 more
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New occurrences of Paepalanthus mollis Kunth var. mollis: extending the distribution of Paepalanthus subg. Xeractis Körn. (Eriocaulaceae) outside the Espinhaço Range, Minas Gerais, Brazil [PDF]
Check List, 2017 Paepalanthus mollis var. mollis is placed in Paepalanthus subg. Xeractis (Eriocaulaceae) and, until now, it was considered endemic to the campos rupestres of the Espinhaço Range in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Bárbara Mourão +2 more
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Past vicariance promoting deep genetic divergence in an endemic frog species of the Espinhaço Range in Brazil: The historical biogeography of Bokermannohyla saxicola (Hylidae). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The highland endemic frog Bokermannohyla saxicola occurs within the Espinhaço Range, the most extensive and continuous orogenic belt of the Brazilian territory, located in southeastern Brazil.
Augusto César Nascimento +4 more
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Phylogeny, structural patterns, and polymorphisms in Dyckia spp. from the Espinhaço mountain range based on complete chloroplast genome [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceDyckia spp. are xeromorphic bromeliads, with diversity centered in the ferruginous rocky outcrops of the Espinhaço mountain Range in Brazilian tropical savana.
João Victor Da Silva Rabelo-Araujo +8 more
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A missing piece is found: a new species of Paepalanthus (Poales, Eriocaulaceae) and the puzzling relations of the campos rupestres mountaintop floras of eastern Minas Gerais, Brazil [PDF]
PhytoKeysPaepalanthus is a diverse genus characteristic of the campos rupestres, a megadiverse vegetation found on mountaintops of mainly quartzitic mountain ranges of central-eastern Brazil. Recent efforts on prospecting the biodiversity of Serra do Padre Ângelo,
Luiz Henrique Rocha +2 more
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Lycophytes and monilophytes in Rio Preto State Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil [PDF]
Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2013 We conducted a floristic survey of lycophytes and monilophytes in Rio Preto State Park, located in the municipality of São Gonçalo do Rio Preto, and in the surrounding areas, including the municipality of Felício dos Santos, in the state of Minas Gerais,
Alexandre Salino +2 more
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Species turnover drives β-diversity patterns across multiple spatial scales of plant-galling interactions in mountaintop grasslands. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 This study describes differences in species richness and composition of the assemblages of galling insects and their host plants at different spatial scales.
Marcel Serra Coelho +4 more
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