Functional ecology as a missing link for conservation of a resource-limited flora in the Atlantic forest

Paula, Luiza F. A. de; Negreiros, Daniel; Azevedo, Luísa O.; Fernandes, Renato L.; Stehmann, João Renato; Silveira, Fernando A. O.

doi:10.1007/s10531-015-0904-x

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“…Carnivorous plants (Lentibulariaceae), which are indicative of poor soils, usually are among the most prominent species of this community, as a consequence of low nutrient availability . In this way, broader comparisons between habitat types located in different inselbergs should be performed, in order to elucidate if they represent different successional stages (Phillips 1981;Burbanck & Phillips 1983) or if they are indeed experiencing different environmental filters (de Paula et al 2015).…”

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“…In habitats with relatively greater resource availability and favorable characteristics for invasions, such as shallow depressions, Melinis repens was found to occur in large clumps. This species and other weeds have been found on several inselbergs throughout southeastern Brazil, and are considered a serious threat to these plant communities (Porembski et al 1998;Porembski 2000a;de Paula et al 2015). The critical point is that, when disturbance regimes are altered, rock outcrops become extremely vulnerable to invasion by non-native exotic organisms (Hooper 2009).…”

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“…Magalhães Barata,376,São Braz,Belém,PA,Brazil 3 Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, P.O. Box 486,Belo Horizonte,MG,Brazil prevailing ecological filters, including lack of soil and water, high exposure to UV radiation, high temperatures and constant winds (Porembski & Barthlott 2000;Scarano 2002), the community composition of inselbergs are clearly distinguished from their surrounding matrices (Barthlott et al 1993;Porembski 2007;de Paula et al 2015). Thus, a set of typical plant communities and habitat types have been described for these rock outcrops over a broad geographical scale .…”

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Floristic and ecological characterization of habitat types on an inselberg in Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil

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Inselbergs are granitic or gneissic rock outcrops, distributed mainly in tropical and subtropical regions. Th ey are considered terrestrial islands because of their strong spatial and ecological isolation, thus harboring a set of distinct plant communities that diff er from the surrounding matrix. In Brazil, inselbergs scattered in the Atlantic Forest contain unusually high levels of plant species richness and endemism. Th is study aimed to inventory species of vascular plants and to describe the main habitat types found on an inselberg located in the state of Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil. A total of 89 species of vascular plants were recorded (belonging to 37 families), of which six were new to science. Th e richest family was Bromeliaceae (10 spp.), followed by Cyperaceae (seven spp.), Orchidaceae and Poaceae (six spp. each). Life forms were distributed in diff erent proportions between habitats, which suggested distinct microenvironments on the inselberg. In general, habitats under similar environmental stress shared common species and life-form proportions. We argue that fl oristic inventories are still necessary for the development of conservation strategies and management of the unique vegetation on inselbergs in Brazil.

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Floristic and ecological characterization of habitat types on an inselberg in Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil

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“…This principle applies to other regions elsewhere. Examples include the occurrence of granitic inselbergs (de Paula et al 2015) and the campos de altitude (Safford 1999) amongst moist savannas and rainforests in hotspots such as the Atlantic Forest (Joly et al 2014), in the Guinean forests of Western Africa, in some Indian Ocean islands (Porembski and Barthlott 2000), and the Carajás Range, a major iron mineral province immersed within the Amazon forest .…”

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“…It has stimulated the search for Ocbils in new regions as well as in those already identified, and helped frame research questions on their biota (Adam 2012;Hopper 2013;Silveira et al 2015). For example, it provides new hypotheses for the exploration of the relative invasibility by non-native species of regions across Earth (Hopper 2002;Arianoutsou et al 2013;de Paula et al 2015).…”

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Biodiversity hotspots and Ocbil theory

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2015

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Background Ocbil theory aims to develop hypotheses explaining the evolution and ecology of, and best conservation practices for, biota on very old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes (Ocbils). Scope This paper reviews recent multi-disciplinary literature inspired by or reacting to aspects of Ocbil theory and discusses how it can assist conservation in biodiversity hotspots. Conclusions Ocbils occur in at least 12 out of 35 known terrestrial hotspots, but also in other biologically significant sites. Most evidence comes from the Southwest Australian and Greater Cape Floristic Regions, South America's Pantepui, and the Campo Rupestre of Brazil, though predictions of the theory have been corroborated in 22 sites across South America, Western and Eastern Africa, Southern Asia, and Oceania. Most hypotheses have been corroborated, indicating that Ocbil theory has survived largely intact after 6 years of independent scientific critique, quantitative experimentation, and development. The theory also has been extended to allow identification and characterization of OCBISs (old, climatically-buffered, infertile seascapes), and OCFELs (old, climatically-buffered, fertile landscapes). We illustrate that the principles of Ocbil theory are key to conservation of biodiversity at global scale and provide new directions for research that can improve the theoretical and practical contributions of Ocbil theory.

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Trait‐based adaptability of Phragmites australis to the effects of soil water and salinity in the Yellow River Delta

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Ecology and Evolution

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Functional ecology as a missing link for conservation of a resource-limited flora in the Atlantic forest

Cited by 55 publications

References 51 publications

Floristic and ecological characterization of habitat types on an inselberg in Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil

Floristic and ecological characterization of habitat types on an inselberg in Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil

Biodiversity hotspots and Ocbil theory

Trait‐based adaptability of Phragmites australis to the effects of soil water and salinity in the Yellow River Delta

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