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Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research
Antonelli, Alexandre; Ariza, María A.; Albert, James Spurling; Andermann, Tobias; Azevedo, Josué A.R.; Bacon, Christine D.; Faurby, SørenThe unparalleled biodiversity found in the American tropics (the Neotropics) has attracted the attention of naturalists for centuries. Despite major advances in recent years in our understanding of the origin and diversification of many Neotropical taxa and biotic regions, many questions remain to be answered. Additional biological and geological data are still needed, as well as methodological advances that ar...
The importance of soils in predicting the future of plant habitat suitability i...
Zuquim, Gabriela; Costa, Flávia Regina Capellotto; Tuomisto, Hanna; Moulatlet, Gabriel M.; Figueiredo, Fernando Oliveira GouvêaAims: Assessment of the future of biodiversity under climate change has been based on climate-only models. We investigated the effects of including soil information when predicting future suitable areas for selected plant species in Amazonia. Methods: We modelled current and future suitable habitats for 35 plant species and compared results of climate-only models with those obtained when climatic and edaphic va...
Using digital soil maps to infer edaphic affinities of plant species in Amazoni...
Moulatlet, Gabriel M.; Zuquim, Gabriela; Figueiredo, Fernando Oliveira Gouvêa; Lehtonen, Samuli; Emilio, Thaise; Ruokolainen, Kalle; Tuomisto, HannaAmazonia combines semi-continental size with difficult access, so both current ranges of species and their ability to cope with environmental change have to be inferred from sparse field data. Although efficient techniques for modeling species distributions on the basis of a small number of species occurrences exist, their success depends on the availability of relevant environmental data layers. Soil data are ...
White sand vegetation in an Amazonian lowland under the perspective of a young ...
Rossetti, Dilce F.; Moulatlet, Gabriel M.; Tuomisto, Hanna; Gribel, Rogério; Toledo, Peter Mann de; Valeriano, M. M.; Ruokolainen, KalleWhat controls the formation of patchy substrates of white sand vegetation in the Amazonian lowlands is still unclear. This research integrated the geological history and plant inventories of a white sand vegetation patch confined to one large fan-shaped sandy substrate of northern Amazonia, which is related to a megafan environment. We examined floristic patterns to determine whether abundant species are more o...
Guia de samambaias e licófitas da REBIO Uatumã - Amazônia Central | Guide to th...
Zuquim, Grabiela; Costa, Flavia R. C.; Prado, Jefferson; Tuomisto, HannaEste guia de samambaias da Rebio Uatumã, a cerca de 140 km ao norte de Manaus, no estado do Amazonas, Brasil, representa uma tentativa bem executada de remediar a falta de conhecimento sobre um pequeno segmento da biota da região. É abordado a importância da preservação dessas áreas relativamente intactas, até mesmo para quem não sabe quase nada sobre esse assunto, o guia é uma introdução maravilhosa e taxonomi...