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Plant-pollinator interaction in a peatland ecosystem in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Revista Espinhaço, 2023
The Espinhaço Mountain Range is an important complex of mountains and plateaus within the Brazilian Cerrado. Within this area we can found peatlands ecosystem, which are important carbon reservoirs and home of a variety of plants and their floral ...
Hannah Beyer, Carlos Victor Mendonça Filho, Diego Tassinari, Letícia C. Pataca, Yasmine Antonini   +4 more
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Assessing the evolutionary distinctiveness of a highly threatened plant group: The urgency to preserve a unique lineage of evolution in Brazil

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1223-1237, July 2026.
Brazil's diverse flora is under several threats, with many unique lineages facing extinction, particularly in biodiverse regions like the Cerrado and campo rupestre. This study sheds light on the conservation needs of Cambessedesia (Melastomataceae), an endemic genus with 95% of its species endangered, using an approach to rank and prioritise species ...
Najla Bastos Scheidegger, Raquel C. Pizzardo, Bruno Vilela, Thuane Bochorny, Juliana Gastaldello Rando   +4 more
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Satellite hindcasts of foliar traits reveal a subtle but consistent relaxation of conservativeness in a biodiverse mountain grassland over the last four decades

Ecography, Volume 2026, Issue 6, June 2026.
Projected warming and drying raise concerns about the resilience of stress‐adapted ecosystems, including the Brazilian Campo Rupestre, an exceptionally biodiverse mountaintop grassland mosaic on ancient, nutrient‐poor substrates. Here, we combine field‐based trait data and long‐term remote sensing to assess the functional structure and temporal ...
Renata Maia, Milton Barbosa, Daniel Negreiros, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Yadvinder Malhi, Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez   +5 more
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Where water meets rock: Ecological niches and diversity hotspots of hygropetric beetles in the Neotropics

Ecological Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 502-516, June 2026.
First continental‐scale synthesis of hygropetric beetle diversity and distribution across Neotropical highlands. Climatic and topographic gradients structure regional assemblages and niche overlap. Ecological convergence suggests adaptation to similar conditions across disjunct regions.
Janderson Batista Rodrigues Alencar, Fabrício Beggiato Baccaro, Cesar J. Benetti, Vinícius da Costa‐Silva, Neusa Hamada   +4 more
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Effects of Fire Frequency Regimes on Flammability and Leaf Economics of Non-Graminoid Vegetation

Fire, 2023
Fire is an ecological factor that strongly influences plant communities and functional traits. Communities respond differently to fire, either decreasing or increasing in flammability and resource acquisition strategies.
Arthur Lamounier Moura, Daniel Negreiros, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes   +2 more
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Extending plant water‐use strategies to flowers: Evidence from trait correlations across plant organs

Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 1491-1503, May 2026.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Despite the importance of flowers to plant fitness, it remains unclear whether flowers display ecophysiological strategies and how floral traits are associated with leaf economic traits.
Dario C. Paiva, Adam B. Roddy
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Butterflies collected using malaise traps as useful bycatches for ecology and conservation

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2019
From 2013 to 2016, a study using malaise was carried out throughout the Espinhaço Mountain range in the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais and Bahia.  A total of 1,000 butterflies belonging to six families, namely Pieridae (n=353), Nymphalidae (n=274 ...
Augusto Henrique Batista Rosa, Lucas Neves Perillo, Frederico Siqueira Neves, Danilo Bandini Ribeiro, André Victor Lucci Freitas   +4 more
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Angiosperm disjunction "Campos rupestres - restingas": a re-evaluation Disjunção de Angiospermas Campos Rupestres - Restingas: uma reavaliação

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2007
A disjunct distribution pattern between the extrazonal formations of the campos rupestres (rocky grasslands) in the Espinhaço mountain range and the restingas (coastal strand vegetation) in Brazil has been proposed repeatedly for several flowering-plant ...
Ruy José Válka Alves, Leonora Cardin, Marcela Stuker Kropf   +2 more
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The Blue List Initiative: Guiding Biodiversity Restoration in Brazil's Espinhaço Range

Applied Vegetation Science, Volume 29, Issue 2, April/June 2026.
The campo rupestre is a biodiversity hotspot marked by extreme habitat heterogeneity and high species turnover. Using phytosociological data, floristic clustering and zeta diversity, we show that habitats are floristically non‐interchangeable and propose habitat‐ and substrate‐specific Blue Lists to guide effective, locality‐based ecological ...
Daniel Negreiros, Tiago S. P. Toma, Abel A. Conceição, Izabella D. R. Silva, Vitória R. Santos, Cássio C. Pereira, Israel M. Pereira, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes   +7 more
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Germinability after desiccation, storage and cryopreservation of seeds from endemic Encholirium Mart. ex Schult. & Schult. f. and Dyckia Schult. & Schult. f. species (Bromeliaceae) Germinabilidade de sementes de espécies endêmicas de Encholirium Mart. ex Schult. & Schult. f. e Dyckia Schult. & Schult. f. (Bromeliaceae) após dessecação, armazenamento e criopreservação

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2007
(Germinability after desiccation, storage and cryopreservation of seeds from endemic Encholirium Mart. ex Schult. & Schult. f. and Dyckia Schult. & Schult. f. species (Bromeliaceae)).
Erika Tarré, Bárbara Balzana Mendes Pires, Ana Paula Mançano Guimarães, Leonardo Alves Carneiro, Rafaela Campostrini Forzza, Elisabeth Mansur   +5 more
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