Ecological Life Zones of Brazil

Tres, Andressa; Tetto, Alexandre França; Soares, Ronaldo Viana; Wendling, William Thomaz; Santos, Gisele Henning

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“…9A) and 30 life zones including transition regions (Fig. 9B) in the current scenario, 5 less compared to the work of Tres et al (2020), in which he presented 35 life zones. Of the 15 approximate life zones (Fig.…”

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“…The Holdridge classi cation system (1967), in turn, is based on the premise of biotemperature, de ned by him as being a temperature range from 0°C to 30°C, understands the temperature at which plant development occurs. The seasonal variation in temperature related to these extreme values implies the disorientation of essential metabolic activities, considerably affecting plant development (Tres et al 2020).…”

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Climate Scenarios And Your Changes In The Life Zone For Brazil

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Climate classification systems are tools capable of facilitating the analysis, grouping, delimitation, and dissemination of climatic characteristics of a region, contributing to the delimitation of areas of fitness in the agricultural sector and validation of various models of climate change. Thus, we seek to determine life zones for Brazil using the ecological classification of Holdridge (1967) in different scenarios of climate change. A 30-year historical series (1989-2019) of climatic data of average air temperature (° C) and rainfall (mm) was used for the entire Brazilian territory, obtained through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Prediction of World platform Wide Energy Resources - (NASA/POWER). Potential evapotranspiration (PET) was estimated by the method of Camargo (1971) using combinations between annual precipitation, average annual biotemperature, average annual basal biotemperature, and the relationship between evapotranspiration and altitude, the life zones for the Holdridge (1967) system were defined. The scenarios used were based on the IPCC (2014) projections. The average temperature in Brazil ranges from 13.1 to 28.0 ° C and the average annual precipitation is 1467 (± 46.91) mm. In the current scenario for the classification of Holdridge (1967) the predominant zone of life is the humid basal tropical forest in 60.57% of the territory. The increase in temperature causes a predominance of the living zones Basal tropical rainforest in 48.92% for S2 and Basal tropical rainforest in 48.95% in S3, the reduction in precipitation S4 generates the predominance of the living zone Basal tropical forest drought in 49.87%, with the increase in precipitation S5 there is a predominance of the zone of life Low humid basal tropical forest in 50.12% of the territory. The great variability of the obtained life zones makes the Holdridge system a useful tool to validate climate change scenarios.

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“…That is, the databases for measured T max and T min included a total of 409 and 407 gauges (Supplementary Material A), respectively. Both datasets covered unevenly the Brazilian territory (Figure 2), being more concentrated towards the axis conformed by the South‐to‐Northeast regions, coinciding with the highest turnover of climatic conditions and, concomitantly, of terrestrial life zones (Figure 1; Soares‐Filho et al ., 2014; Overbeck et al ., 2015; Tres et al ., 2020).…”

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BrazilClim: The overcoming of limitations of pre‐existing bioclimate data

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Intl Journal of Climatology

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Species distribution modelling has become instrumental in assessing the influence of environmental conditions on the occurrence or abundance of taxa. The set of environmental layers used for this purpose is a crucial aspect, for which different climate‐based (bioclimatic) datasets have been recently developed. These bioclimatic variables result from combinations of precipitation and temperatures surfaces. Here, we explored both the performance and possibility of improving some of the currently available bioclimatic databases, through an evaluation of the precipitation and temperatures surfaces used to generate them. For this purpose, we used a combination of statistic and graphic approaches. We focused on Brazil, not only due to its natural megadiversity, but also due to its continental size and orographic heterogeneity: an excellent ground for refining methods replicable elsewhere. We found a better match between the climatic data measured on‐field and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM 3B43 v7) in the case of precipitation, and the surfaces provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the case of temperatures, sources uncommonly used for species niche modelling. We gauge‐calibrated the best performing surfaces using machine‐learning algorithms and generated corrected surfaces that allowed us to create BrazilClim: a database of bioclimatic variables, based on improved primary surfaces, which will result in more assertive predicted distributions and more actual pictures of the species' ecological requirements for megadiverse Brazil, an approach replicable elsewhere. All primary and bioclimatic surfaces generated for this study may be freely downloaded.

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“…Figura 1-Produções cartográficas com análise integrada da paisagem do Nordeste/Semiárido Brasileiro Fonte: James (1952), Vasconcelos Sobrinho (1970, IBGE (1985), Coelho (1988), Isachenko e Shliapnikov (1989), EMBRAPA (1991) Souza et al (1992), Andrade (1998), Velloso;Pareyn (2002), Rodriguez;Cavalcanti (2004), BNB/FUNCEME (2005), CPRM (2006), Sayre et al (2014), Cavalcanti (2016), Tres et al (2020). Organização do autor.…”

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“…Dentro das perspectivas da ecologia, Tres et al (2020) propuseram a classificação das paisagens brasileiras a partir das Zonas de Vida, metodologia desenvolvida por Holdridge (2000). Nesse sistema de classificação bioclimático baseado em parâmetros climáticos (biotemperatura e precipitação) e parâmetros não climáticos (latitude e altitude) são definidas as Zonas de Vida (Life Zones -LZs), que têm por objetivo agrupar associações ecológicas semelhantes.…”

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Estado da arte da cartografia de paisagens para o semiárido brasileiro

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2022

Rev. Bras. Geog.

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O presente texto tem por objetivo discutir diferentes propostas de classificação integrada das paisagens que versam sobre o semiárido brasileiro, sejam obras diretamente direcionadas à área em questão ou àquelas que a englobam. São apresentadas um total de 19 diferentes propostas de classificação da paisagem, abrangendo um período de aproximadamente 70 anos de pesquisas voltadas ao estudo das paisagens naturais e que tratam do semiárido brasileiro. O trabalho oferece um guia para a compreensão das principais características destas propostas, abrangendo seus objetivos, bases teóricas, dados utilizados, escalas, metodologias, os principais conceitos, os critérios de classificação da paisagem, as unidades mapeadas, e os locais de destaque de aplicação das abordagens.

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Ecological Life Zones of Brazil

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Climate Scenarios And Your Changes In The Life Zone For Brazil

Climate Scenarios And Your Changes In The Life Zone For Brazil

BrazilClim: The overcoming of limitations of pre‐existing bioclimate data

Estado da arte da cartografia de paisagens para o semiárido brasileiro

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