Biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Campo Rupestre: A road map for the sustainability of the hottest Brazilian biodiversity hotspot

Fernandes, G. Wilson; Arantes-Garcia, Lucas; Barbosa, Milton; Barbosa, Marcos Pinotti; Batista, Eugênia Kelly Luciano; Beiroz, Wallace; Resende, Fernando M.; Abrahão, Anna; Almada, Emmanuel Duarte; Alves, Elaine Vasconcelos Bezerra; Alves, Natacha J.; Angrisano, Patrícia; Arista, Montserrat; Arroyo, Juan; Arruda, André Jardim; Bahia, Thaise de Oliveira; Braga, Laura; Brito, Lílian Messias Sampaio; Callisto, Marcos; Caminha-Paiva, Dario; Carvalho, Marilia Pinheiro de; Conceição, Abel Augusto; Costa, Leda N.; Cruz, António Jorge do Rosário; Cunha-Blum, Jessica; Dagevos, John; Dias, Braulio F.S.; Pinto, Victor Diniz; Dirzo, Rodolfo; Domingos, Daniel Quedes; Echternacht, Lívia; Fernandes, Stephannie; Figueira, José Eugênio Côrtes; Fiorini, Cecília F.; Giulietti, Ana María; Gomes, Augusto; Gomes, Vanessa Matos; Gontijo, Bernardo; Goulart, Fernando Figueiredo; Guerra, Tadeu J.; Junqueira, Patrícia A.; Lima-Santos, Débora; Marques, Júlia Vieira Oberger; Meira‐Neto, João Augusto Alves; Miola, Deise Tatiane Bueno; Morellato, Leonor Patrícia Cerdeira; Negreiros, Daniel; Neire, Elizabeth; Neves, Ana Carolina de Oliveira; Neves, Frederico Siqueira; Novais, Samuel; Oki, Yumi; Oliveira, E.G. De; Oliveira, Rafael S.; Pivari, Marco Otávio Dias; Pontes, Euripedes Junior; Ranieri, Bernardo D.; Ribas, Rodrigo Pinheiro; Scariot, Aldicìr; Schaefer, Carlos Ernesto Gonçalves Reynaud; Sena, Letícia; Silva, Pedro Giovâni da; Siqueira, Paulo Ricardo Baier; Soares, Natalia Costa; Soares‐Filho, Britaldo; Solar, Ricardo; Tabarelli, Marcelo; Vasconcellos, Rogério; Vilela, Evaldo F.; Silveira, Fernando A.

doi:10.1016/j.pecon.2020.10.004

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“…Associated with these mountaintops occurs the campo rupestre, an ancient, climatically buffered, and diverse ecosystem that is considered the hottest Brazilian biodiversity hotspot and hosts various endangered and endemic species (Fernandes et al 2020;Hopper et al 2021). This ecosystem has a high edaphic and vegetational heterogeneity (Le Stradic et al 2015;Ferrari et al 2016) and enables the occurrence of relictual forest islands associated with specific edaphicclimatic characteristics, such as erosion valleys that lack boulders (Coelho et al 2016).…”

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“…In Brazil, it is common to find such systems across the mountaintops of the Espinhaço Range Biosphere Reserve (hereafter treated as forest islands) (Coelho et al 2018b). The Espinhaço mountain range extends over 1,200 km from southeast to northeast Brazil and harbors high biodiversity and endemism (Silveira et al 2016;Fernandes et al 2020). The forest islands are surrounded by a campo rupestre matrix (montane grasslands), which creates a complex vegetational mosaic in the landscape, giving rise to a typical forest archipelago (Coelho et al 2016;Itescu 2018).…”

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“…The distribution of these forest islands is also expected to be affected by ongoing climate change, which is predicted to be more intense in mountainous areas (Mayor et al 2017;Rumpf et al 2018). Therefore, there is an urgency in defining clear strategies to conserve these mountaintops ecosystems (Noroozi et al 2018) by establishing priorities and guidelines that can support informed decisionmaking policy towards sustainable use of the campo rupestre and its forest islands (Coelho et al 2018b;Fernandes et al 2020;Neves et al 2021a).…”

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Naturally fragmented landscapes are adequate systems for evaluating patterns and mechanisms that determine species distribution without confounding effects of anthropogenic fragmentation and habitat loss. We aimed to evaluate an ant metacommunity's spatiotemporal patterns in montane forest islands amid a grassland-dominated matrix. We assessed these patterns by deconstructing the ant metacommunity into forest-dependent and habitat generalist species. We sampled twice a year (summer and winter) over 2 years (2014 and 2015), using soil and arboreal pitfall traps, in fourteen forest islands (varying in size, shape, and connectivity) in the Espinhaço Range Biosphere Reserve, Brazil. We evaluated the relationship between ant species richness, composition (β-diversity), and predictor variables of forest island structure (canopy cover and understory density) and landscape structure (forest amount, number of forest islands, and shape). We sampled 99 ant species, 66.7% of which were classified as forest-dependent and 33.3% as habitat generalist species. We found that ant β-diversity was higher in space than in time, and that species composition variation in time (temporal β-diversity) differed between ant species groups. Both ant groups responded differently to forest island and landscape structure characteristics. Landscape structure seems to act as a spatial filter and the forest islands' local characteristics as an environmental filter, which jointly determine the local and regional diversity. We demonstrate the importance that forest archipelagos pose to ant metacommunity's structure and dynamics in montane tropical regions. Mountaintop conservation and management strategies must consider the forest island archipelago to maintain the biodiversity and the functioning of these systems.

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“…Isolated lineages in these islands are potentially under active speciation, which helps to explain the outstanding endemism of their flora. From 30 to 40% of the more than 5000 plant species occurring in Brazilian rupestrian fields are endemic (Conceic ßão et al, 2016;Fernandes et al, 2020), and several endemic species are observed in components of the fauna as well (Chaves et al, 2015).…”

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Host specialization, genetic variability, and differentiation in three species of Tomoplagia from Brazilian rupestrian grasslands

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In this study, the geographic and host plant-associated genetic structure of Tomoplagia spp. (Diptera: Tephritidae) was investigated. The study was developed in the rupestrian montane grasslands of the Espinhac ßo Mountain Range, Brazil, where these flies' larvae develop within flower heads of Asteraceae. The three species of Tomoplagia investigated have different host spans within the subtribe Vernoniinae: one is strictly monophagous (Tomoplagia grandis Prado, Norrbom & Lewinsohn) and two are oligophagous [Tomoplagia incompleta (Williston) and Tomoplagia bicolor Prado, Norrbom & Lewinsohn]. The genetic variability and differentiation throughout their geographic distribution were investigated at the local scale (sympatric, between different host species in the same locality) and the regional scale (allopatric, on the same or different host species in different localities). Allele richness was greater for populations of the two oligophagous species. Moreover, population genetic structure was low in all species both on the local and regional scales, and the attribution of individuals of the three species to different genetic groups was not strongly associated with either locality or host plant. These results indicate the absence of simple geographic and host-associated genetic structure in these specialized herbivores, suggesting that females of T. bicolor and T. incompleta have low host philopatry, using various host species indiscriminately within their distribution range. Therefore, the use of host plants by fruit flies of the genus Tomoplagia is a plastic character that can shift temporally and spatially among phylogenetically related and chemically similar plants. Contrary to expectations, given the specialized and intimate nature of their host association, the studied Tomoplagia species showed no clear host-associated genetic differentiation; instead, genetic variation presents a mosaic pattern across hosts and localities.

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“…Los problemas de contaminación en nuestro país son diversos, un país con extensos recursos naturales y una gran variedad de biodiversidad, pero el uso indebido durante años de los recurso hídricos por parte de la industria fabril (Huenchuleo & De Kartzow, 2018;Jabbour, 2015), efecto de cambio climático, población en crecimiento, prácticas agrícolas inadecuadas han incrementado la escasez del agua (Fernandes et al, 2020;Hernández, 2019) y obstaculizando el desarrollo sostenible de la biodiversidad (Cattaneo et al, 2007;Cohen et al, 2013). Lissarrague (2015) evidencia que la contaminación del agua, que proviene de la presencia de altos niveles de arsénico, plomo y cadmio y en consecuencia los pobladores sufren de cáncer, diabetes mellitus y enfermedades cardiovasculares (Da Silva et al, 2017;Moreno et al, 2015), tales los casos de los distritos de Lima, La Oroya y Juliaca, el rango de la concentración de arsénico inorgánico fue de 13 a 193 mg/l para las aguas subterráneas y superficiales, más alto que el límite de 10 mg/l según recomendado por la OMS (Bergstrom & Loomis, 2017;Cristeche & Penna, 2018).…”

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Valoración económica de los servicios ambientales de la cuenca del río Coata, Puno-Perú

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Rev. Innova Educación

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El objetivo fue de valorar económicamente los servicios ambientales de la cuenca del río Coata; así mismo, determinar la disponibilidad a pagar por la mejora de los servicios ambientales e identificar las variables socio-económicas que determinan la disposición a pagar. Se aplicó el método de valoración contingente y modelo econométrico logit binomial, con una muestra de 369 hogares que viven alrededor de la cuenca, para esto se utilizó la técnica de recolección de datos de fuente primaria y como instrumento se utilizó la encuesta, sobre la población que radica en la cuenca, utilizando los paquetes estadísticos SPSS 25.0 y Stata 16.0 para la estimación y contraste de hipótesis. Se determinó que el valor económico de la DAP asciende a 4.88 soles mensuales, por lo que evidencia la existencia de una plena disponibilidad a pagar por parte de las familias que habitan en las cercanías de la cuenca del río. Finalmente, la DAP es explicado por la edad en 2.77%, la educación en 3.1%, la frecuencia de uso del servicio ambiental en 2.3% y distancia al río en 2.3%.

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Biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Campo Rupestre: A road map for the sustainability of the hottest Brazilian biodiversity hotspot

Cited by 51 publications

References 47 publications

Spatiotemporal Patterns of Ant Metacommunity in a Montane Forest Archipelago

Spatiotemporal Patterns of Ant Metacommunity in a Montane Forest Archipelago

Host specialization, genetic variability, and differentiation in three species of Tomoplagia from Brazilian rupestrian grasslands

Valoración económica de los servicios ambientales de la cuenca del río Coata, Puno-Perú

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