nvironmental heterogeneity and sampling relevance areas in an Atlantic forest endemism regio

Autor(es)

Carvalho, Carolina da Silva ^[1] ; Martello, Felipe ^[2] ; Galetti, Mauro ^{[3, 4]} ; Pinto, Fernando ^[5] ; Francisco, Mercival Roberto ^[6] ; Silveira, Luis Fabio ^[7] ; Galetti Jr, Pedro Manoel

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Fed Sao Carlos, Dept Genet & Evolucao, BR-13565905 Sao Carlos, SP - Brazil

^[2] Univ Fed Acre, Dept Ciencia Nat, BR-69917400 Rio Branco, AC - Brazil

^[3] Univ Miami, Dept Biol, Coral Gables, FL 33146 - USA

^[4] Univ Estadual Sao Paulo, Dept Biodiversidade, BR-13506900 Rio Claro, SP - Brazil

^[5] Inst Preservacao Mata Atlantica, Rua Jose de Alencar 86, Sala 6, BR-57051565 Maceio, Alagoas - Brazil

^[6] Univ Fed Sao Carlos, Dept Ciencias Ambientais, Campus Sorocaba, BR-18052780 Sorocaba, SP - Brazil

^[7] Univ Sao Paulo, Secao Aves, Museu Zool, Ave Nazare 481, BR-04263000 Sao Paulo, SP - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: PERSPECTIVES IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION; v. 19, n. 3, p. 311-318, JUL-SEP 2021.
• Citações Web of Science: 0

Resumo

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. (C) 2021 Associacao Brasileira de Ciencia Ecologica e Conservacao. Published by Elsevier Editora Ltda. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 19/26436-6 - Reavaliação das espécies de mamíferos que se acredita estar localmente extintos no Centro de Endemismo Pernambuco (CEP), a partir de DNA de amostras mistas e metabarcoding
• Beneficiário: Carolina da Silva Carvalho
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Pós-Doutorado