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Biodiversity and Conservation

Issue 9/2015

Special Issue: Brazilian Atlantic Forests

Content (14 Articles)

Editorial

The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: new findings, challenges and prospects in a shrinking hotspot

Pedro V. Eisenlohr, Ary T. de Oliveira-Filho, Jefferson Prado

Original Paper

How much do we know about the endangered Atlantic Forest? Reviewing nearly 70 years of information on tree community surveys

Renato A. F. de Lima, Danilo P. Mori, Gregory Pitta, Melina O. Melito, Carolina Bello, Luiz F. Magnago, Victor P. Zwiener, Daniel D. Saraiva, Márcia C. M. Marques, Alexandre A. de Oliveira, Paulo I. Prado

Original Paper

Tree species composition and richness along altitudinal gradients as a tool for conservation decisions: the case of Atlantic semideciduous forest

Vanessa L. Rezende, Pedro L. S. de Miranda, Leila Meyer, Cecília V. Moreira, Mariana F. M. Linhares, Ary T. de Oliveira-Filho, Pedro V. Eisenlohr

Original Paper

Myrtaceae in the Atlantic forest: their role as a ‘model’ group

Eve J. Lucas, Mariana O. Bünger

Original paper

Geographical patterns of terrestrial herbs: a new component in planning the conservation of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Leandro Tavares Azevedo Vieira, Rodrigo Trassi Polisel, Natália Macedo Ivanauskas, George John Shepherd, Jorge Luiz Waechter, Kikyo Yamamoto, Fernando Roberto Martins

Original Paper

Bryoflora of the Itatiaia National Park along an elevation gradient: diversity and conservation

Denise Pinheiro da Costa, Nivea Dias dos Santos, Maria Alice de Rezende, William R. Buck, Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp

Original Paper

The community of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in natural and revegetated coastal areas (Atlantic Forest) in northeastern Brazil

Danielle Karla Alves da Silva, Flávia Paiva Coutinho, Indra Elena Costa Escobar, Renata Gomes de Souza, Fritz Oehl, Gladstone Alves Silva, Uided Maaze Tibúrcio Cavalcante, Leonor Costa Maia

Original Paper

Distribution of poroid fungi (Basidiomycota) in the Atlantic Rain Forest in Northeast Brazil: implications for conservation

Tatiana B. Gibertoni, Georgea S. Nogueira-Melo, Carla R. S. de Lira, Juliano M. Baltazar, Paulo J. P. Santos

Original Paper

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

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

Original Paper

Atlantic Forest spontaneous regeneration at landscape scale

Camila Linhares de Rezende, Alexandre Uezu, Fabio Rubio Scarano, Dorothy Sue Dunn Araujo

Original Paper

Factors influencing early secondary succession and ecosystem carbon stocks in Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Samuel J. B. Robinson, Eduardo van den Berg, Gabriela S. Meirelles, Nick Ostle

Original Paper

Forest fragmentation does not matter to invasions by Hovenia dulcis

Danira Letícia Padilha, Alexandre Copatti Loregian, Jean Carlos Budke

Original Paper

Microclimatic conditions at forest edges have significant impacts on vegetation structure in large Atlantic forest fragments

Luiz Fernando Silva Magnago, Mariana Ferreira Rocha, Leila Meyer, Sebastião Venâncio Martins, João Augusto Alves Meira-Neto