Floristic change in Brazil's Southern Atlantic forest biodiversity hotspot: From the last glacial maximum to the late 21st century

OJ Wilson, FE Mayle, RJ Walters, DV Lingner… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Brazil's Atlantic Forest biome is one of the world's biodiversity hotspots, whose
heterogeneous ecosystems are threatened by habitat loss and climate change …

Human contribution to Amazonian plant diversity: Legacy of pre-Columbian land use in modern plant communities

E Montoya, U Lombardo, C Levis, GA Aymard… - … : patterns and processes, 2020 - Springer
Amazonia is the world's largest tropical forest and is globally important in terms of its
ecosystem services and extraordinarily high levels of biodiversity. The origin of this …

Pre-colonial Amerindian legacies in forest composition of southern Brazil

A Pereira Cruz, ELH Giehl, C Levis, JS Machado… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Past human societies have left persistent marks on forests worldwide. However, the degree
to which pre-colonial Amerindian societies have affected forest structure is still not fully …

Modeling bark thickness and probability of trunk cavity occurrence relative to tree size in Araucaria angustifolia trees

VC Cysneiros, MC Scipioni, CD Allen - Trees, 2024 - Springer
Key message Models of bark thickness and trunk cavity occurrence improve allometry
assessments and provide good indicators of the probability of tree decay or vitality …

Late shellmound occupation in southern Brazil: A multi-proxy study of the Galheta IV archaeological site

J Mendes Cardoso, F Merencio, X Villagran… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Brazilian coastal archaeology is renowned for its numerous and large shellmounds
(sambaquis), which had been continuously occupied from at least 8000 to 1000 years cal …

Addressing social-ecological systems across temporal and spatial scales: a conceptual synthesis for ethnobiology

UP Albuquerque, D Ludwig, IS Feitosa, JMB de Moura… - Human ecology, 2020 - Springer
We develop an integrative conceptual framework for addressing social-ecological systems
across different spatial and temporal scales. Ethnobiologists study social-ecological systems …

Phylogeography of plastid DNA sequences suggests post-glacial southward demographic expansion and the existence of several glacial refugia for Araucaria …

VM Stefenon, G Klabunde, RPM Lemos, M Rogalski… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Despite the high diversity of the Southern South American environments, the patterns and
processes driving both their species diversity and demographic history are still poorly known …

Relict populations of Araucaria angustifolia will be isolated, poorly protected, and unconnected under climate and land-use change in Brazil

MM Tagliari, G Vieilledent, J Alves, TCL Silveira… - Biodiversity and …, 2021 - Springer
One of Brazil's most threatened tropical biome is the Atlantic Forest. This biome has distinct
forest formations, as the Araucaria Mixed Forest, a sub-tropical ecosystem distributed …

[HTML][HTML] Ecological restoration and protection of remnants are key to the survival of the critically endangered Araucaria tree under climate change

GB Bernardinis, ME Cobos, FT Brum… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Araucaria angustifolia–'araucaria'–is a critically endangered conifer tree of great
ecological, economic, and cultural importance occurring in subtropical forests and …

Changes in floral shape: insights into the evolution of wild Nicotiana (Solanaceae)

MC Teixeira, IV Quintana, ALA Segatto… - Botanical Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Floral shape and size play a role in plant diversification and reproductive isolation. Different
floral forms can rise by selective pressures by pollinators/ecological constraints and/or …