Little is known about past vegetation dynamics in Eastern Tropical South America (ETSA).
Here we describe patterns of chloroplast (cp) DNA variation in Plathymenia reticulata, a …

The processes that have shaped the extraordinary species diversity in neotropical
rainforests are poorly understood, and knowledge about the patterns of genetic diversity …

Three woody species of Coursetia from eastern Brazil are here classified into the Rostrata
clade, Coursetia caatingicola, C. rostrata, and C. vicioides. All come from the Southern …

Background and Aims Plathymenia reticulata (Leguminosae) is a Brazilian tree that occurs
in two biomes: Cerrado, a woody savanna vegetation, and the Atlantic Forest, a tropical …

Abstract The Cerrado, the largest Neotropical savanna, and the Brazilian Atlantic Forest form
large ecotonal areas where savanna and forest habitats occupy adjacent patches with …

A taxonomic revision and biogeographic study of the genus Centrolobium (Leguminosae-
Papilionoideae) is presented. Centrolobium includes important timber trees distributed …

Abstract In the Southern and Southeastern Brazilian highlands, a clade of seven species of
Petunia that are endemic to the region (P. altiplana, P. bonjardinensis, P. guarapuavensis …

We conducted a phylogeographical and niche modelling study of the tree Ficus
bonijesulapensis, endemic to Brazilian seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs), in order to …

The caatinga represents the largest and most isolated of the South American dry forests,
occupying more than 850,000 km2 in the semi-arid region of north-eastern Brazil …

We reconstructed phylogenetic relationships in Leguminosae subfam. Mimosoideae tribe
Ingeae using 135 sequences from the nuclear (ITS) and 119 from the plastid (trnL–F) …