Abstract The eastern-central South American open vegetation biomes occur across an
extensive range of environmental conditions and are organized diagonally including three …

Abstract The Brazilian Cerrado is recognized as one of the most threatened biomes in the
world, as the region has experienced a striking change from natural Cerrado vegetation to …

Accurate and detailed species distribution maps are fundamental for documenting and
interpreting biological diversity. For snakes, an ecologically diverse group of reptiles …

This book explores the geography, ecology, and antiquity of'open ecosystems', which
include grasslands, savannas, and shrublands. They occur in climates that can support …

Concerns over deforestation have led to attempts to identify suitable areas for reforestation
around the world. The most ambitious effort to date is the World Resources Institute (WRI) …

Abstract Aim The Brazilian campo rupestre is a vegetation associated to ancient
mountaintops in eastern South America, spread mainly over disjunct areas of the Espinhaço …

Aim To investigate the historical distribution of the Cerrado across Quaternary climatic
fluctuations and to generate historical stability maps to test:(1) whether the 'historical …

The relative influence of Neogene geomorphological events and Quaternary climatic
changes as causal mechanisms on Neotropical diversification remains largely speculative …

Neotropical Biogeography: Regionalization and Evolution presents the most comprehensive
single-source treatment of the Neotropical region derived from evolutionary biogeographic …

The present study is a synthesis on snake diversity and distribution in the Caatinga region of
northeastern Brazil, providing an updated species list and data on natural history and …