Aims We analyse here the variations in species composition and richness and the
geographic ranges of the tree species occurring in South American subtropical Atlantic and …

Abstract Brazil's Atlantic Forest biome is one of the world's biodiversity hotspots, whose
heterogeneous ecosystems are threatened by habitat loss and climate change …

Ecological attributes enable the identification of Keystone Plant Resources (KPRs),
including their community-wide contribution to vertebrate consumers, which are often highly …

Statement of problem. Due to the continuous variability of the forest regeneration process,
patterns of indicator variables with membership in more than one successional stage may …

Statement of problem. Brazilian guidelines establish a set of parameters to classify forest
regeneration stages, but there are no criteria or evidence for prioritizing key indicators …

This research aimed to develop statistical models to predict basal area increment (BAI) for
Araucaria angustifolia using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Tree species were measured …

Brazil is amongst the ten nations with the greatest shale gas reservoirs in the world. Despite
that, the knowledge regarding hydraulic fracturing (fracking) technique for the exploration of …

O presente estudo objetivou verificar se o componente arbóreo de uma Floresta Nebular,
localizada em Urubici, SC, apresenta variações florísticas e estruturais associadas à …

ABSTRACT The Araucaria Mixed Forests (AMF) are subtropical conifer-hardwood mixed
forests that are part of the Atlantic forest floristic dominion in Brazil and Argentina. The AMF …

Myrtaceae family presents high species richness in the Atlantic Forest Domain (AFD) of
South America, which is considered a world biodiversity hotspot. Evidence indicates that the …