Author(s): Carvalho, Carolina da Silva ; Martello, Felipe ; Galetti, Mauro [UNESP] ; Pinto, Fernando ; Francisco, Mercival Roberto ; Silveira, Luis Fábio ; Galetti Jr, Pedro Manoel
Date: 2022
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/233152
Origin: Oasisbr
Subject(s): Biodiversity survey; Fragmentation; Pernambuco Endemism Center; Private reserves
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
The knowledge of the diversity, richness, and distribution of tropical organisms are poorly understood, and a plethora of new species are still being described even among groups considered well-known. As a result, this inadequate knowledge of the biodiversity has hampered the species’ conservation. Thus, sampling efforts must be urgently optimized to survey important and unique areas and to better allocated the scarce conservation resources, especially in the tropical and developing countries that harbor much of the world biodiversity. We assessed the most relevant regions in terms of environmental dissimilarity for sampling vertebrates (amphibians, birds, and mammals) in the Pernambuco Endemism Center (PEC), located in Atlantic forest and the most threatened region in South America, where only about 1% of remaining forests are protected. We found that 8–41% of the PEC areas showed high sampling relevance for all vertebrate groups, with the non-coastal areas of the PEC presenting the highest sampling relevance in terms of environmental dissimilarity. For all vertebrate groups, the sites with the highest sampling relevance are threatened by fragmentation, and sampling efforts must be allocated to these areas before they are totally converted into human-modified landscapes.
Departamento de Genética e Evolução Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Departamento de Ciência da Natureza Universidade Federal do Acre
Departamento de Biodiversidade Universidade Estadual de São Paulo
Instituto para Preservação da Mata Atlântica Rua José de Alencar, 86, sala 6, Farol
Departamento de Ciências Ambientais Universidade Federal de São Carlos, campus de Sorocaba
Seção de Aves Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Avenida Nazaré, 481
Department of Biology University of Miami
Departamento de Biodiversidade Universidade Estadual de São Paulo
FAPESP: 2019/26436-6
CNPq: 300970/2015-3
CNPq: 303524/2019-7
CNPq: 308337/2019-0
CNPq: 308702/2019-0
