Tropical forests are recognized for their role in providing diverse ecosystem services (ESs),
with carbon uptake the best recognized. The capacity of tropical forests to provide ESs is …

Areas of endemism (AoE) comprise regions host to two or more endemic taxa, whose
distributional limits are congruent and not random. These areas are important for two …

Abstract Background and Aims The evolution of ecological specialization is favoured under
divergent selection imposed by increased environmental heterogeneity, although …

With the return to classes, the unprecedented circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic
have created diverse challenges for faculty and students in all areas of education (Baldini …

Abstract Janusia is a South American genus of flowering plants. Most of its 15 described
species are centered in Brazil, where they are found in diverse habitats across the Caatinga …

Neotropical forests are home to exceptional biodiversity, especially along the eastern coast
of tropical and subtropical South America. In the Atlantic Forest, the subtropical Araucaria …

Based on fieldwork for licensing environmental impact studies in Bahia, northeastern Brazil,
we present new records of five tree species, including two species known only from their …

Myrcia longipetiolata, a new species of Myrcia, is here described and illustrated. With a
phylogenetic hypothesis, we show that this species belongs to Myrcia clade 10, a …

Verbenaceae is represented in Brazil by 15 genera and ca. 290 species, with most of its
richness in the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest domains. The state of Espírito Santo has an area …

Oxalis jacobinensis, a new species of Oxalis sect. Thamnoxys, is described from the State of
Bahia, in the northern sector of the Chapada Diamantina mountains. It can be distinguished …