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Rios CO, Pimentel PA, Bicalho EM, Garcia QS, Pereira EG. Photochemical attributes determine the responses of plant species from different functional groups of ferruginous outcrops when grown in iron mining substrates. FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY : FPB 2024; 51:FP23207. [PMID: 38163648 DOI: 10.1071/fp23207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2023] [Accepted: 12/02/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
Abstract
Environments originating from banded iron formations, such as the canga , are important reference ecosystems for the recovery of degraded areas by mining. The objective of this work was to evaluate if the relationship between morphofunctional and photosynthetic attributes of native canga species from different functional group results in distinct responses when grown in iron mining tailings substrate. The experiment was carried out with species belonging to different functional groups: a widespread semi-deciduous tree-shrub, Myrcia splendens ; an endemic deciduous shrub, Jacaranda caroba ; and a nitrogen-fixing herbaceous species, Periandra mediterranea . The species were grown in two conditions, reference soil and iron ore tailing. Despite belonging to different functional groups when grown in tailings, the morphofunctional attributes presented similar responses between species. M. splendens was the species most affected by the conditions imposed by the iron ore mining tailings, with decreased light-use efficiency and electron transport. P. mediterranea had satisfactory growth and maintenance of photosynthetic attributes. J. caroba growing in the tailings increased the effective quantum yield of PSII. The photochemical and growth assessments were able to better explain the adaptive strategies developed by the species, guaranteeing a greater chance of success during the rehabilitation of mining substrates.
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- Camilla Oliveira Rios
- Graduate program in Plant Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Institute of Biological and Health Sciences, Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), Campus Florestal, Florestal, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Plant Growth and Development Laboratory, Plant Physiology, Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), University Campus, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Department of Botany, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Institute of Biological and Health Sciences, Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), Campus Florestal, Florestal, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Brunes TO, Pinto FCS, Taucce PPG, Santos MTT, Nascimento LB, Carvalho DC, Oliveira G, Vasconcelos S, Leite FSF. Traditional taxonomy underestimates the number of species of Bokermannohyla (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae) diverging in the mountains of southeastern Brazil since the Miocene. SYST BIODIVERS 2023. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2022.2156001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- Tuliana O. Brunes
- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
- BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Campus Florestal, Florestal, MG, Brazil
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Gomides SC, Pires-Oliveira JC, Machado TM. Threats from climate change for lizard species of a Neotropical mountain range. AN ACAD BRAS CIENC 2023; 95:e20210519. [PMID: 37341270 DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202320210519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 10/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/22/2023] Open
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Climate change is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity, especially for species of high altitudes. However, biodiversity conservation policies that consider mitigation strategies for long-term climate impacts are still scarce. To analyze the effects of climate change on lizards in tropical mountainous areas, we selected two species from Serra do Espinhaço (Brazil) with different thermoregulation strategies and distributions (Tropidurus montanus and Rhachisaurus brachylepis). Serra do Espinhaço mountain range is recognized as an important center of endemism and can act as a refuge for species that manage to survive climate change. We produce models of environmental suitability from bioclimatic, edaphic, and topographic variables, and create projections for the present and for the year 2070 under an optimistic (RCP 4.5) and a pessimistic (RCP 8.5) climatic scenario. The results indicate that both future climate scenarios foresee a reduction of areas of environmental suitability for the studied species, but especially for the restricted distribution one (R. brachylepis). Although our results indicate that the studied species are recorded in areas of integral protection that possess climatic stability, the future will see a reduction of areas with environmental suitability, especially under the pessimistic scenario.
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- Samuel C Gomides
- , Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Rodovia PA-439, nº 257, Santíssimo, 68270-000 Oriximiná, PA, Brazil
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- Programa de Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade do estado de Mato Grosso, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Av. Prof. Dr. Renato Figueiro Varella, s/n, Olaria, Caixa Postal 08, 78690-000 Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica, Av. Presidente Antônio Carlos, 6627, Pampulha, Caixa Postal 486, 31270-901 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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Nerlekar AN, Chorghe AR, Dalavi JV, Kusom RK, Karuppusamy S, Kamath V, Pokar R, Rengaian G, Sardesai MM, Kambale SS. Exponential rise in the discovery of endemic plants underscores the need to conserve the Indian savannas. Biotropica 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/btp.13062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Ashish N. Nerlekar
- Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology Texas A&M University College Station Texas USA
- IUCN Species Survival Commission‐Western Ghats Plant Specialist Group India
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- Rajiv Gandhi Regional Museum of Natural History Sawai Madhopur Rajasthan India
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- Angiosperm Taxonomy Laboratory Department of Botany Shivaji University Kolhapur Maharashtra India
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- IUCN Species Survival Commission‐Western Ghats Plant Specialist Group India
- Department of Botany The Madura College (Autonomous) Madurai Tamil Nadu India
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- Gubbi Labs LLP Gubbi Karnataka India
- UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP‐WCMC) Cambridge UK
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- Department of Botany Faculty of Science The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Vadodara Gujarat India
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- IUCN Species Survival Commission‐Western Ghats Plant Specialist Group India
- Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) Royal Enclave Sriramapura Bengaluru Karnataka India
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- IUCN Species Survival Commission‐Western Ghats Plant Specialist Group India
- Department of Botany Savitribai Phule Pune University Pune Maharashtra India
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- IUCN Species Survival Commission‐Western Ghats Plant Specialist Group India
- Department of Botany MVP Samaj's Arts, Commerce & Science College Tryambakeshwar Maharashtra India
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Pezzuti TL, Fortes Leite FS, Rossa-Feres DDC, Anchietta Garcia PC. The Tadpoles of the Iron Quadrangle, Southeastern Brazil: A Baseline for Larval Knowledge and Anuran Conservation in a Diverse and Threatened Region. SOUTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.2994/sajh-d-20-00042.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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- Tiago Leite Pezzuti
- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Sagarana Lab, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Campus Florestal. Florestal, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia e Botânica, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo, Campus São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Perez MF, Bonatelli IAS, Romeiro-Brito M, Franco FF, Taylor NP, Zappi DC, Moraes EM. Coalescent-based species delimitation meets deep learning: Insights from a highly fragmented cactus system. Mol Ecol Resour 2021; 22:1016-1028. [PMID: 34669256 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2021] [Revised: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 10/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Delimiting species boundaries is a major goal in evolutionary biology. An increasing volume of literature has focused on the challenges of investigating cryptic diversity within complex evolutionary scenarios of speciation, including gene flow and demographic fluctuations. New methods based on model selection, such as approximate Bayesian computation, approximate likelihoods, and machine learning are promising tools arising in this field. Here, we introduce a framework for species delimitation using the multispecies coalescent model coupled with a deep learning algorithm based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). We compared this strategy with a similar ABC approach. We applied both methods to test species boundary hypotheses based on current and previous taxonomic delimitations as well as genetic data (sequences from 41 loci) in Pilosocereus aurisetus, a cactus species complex with a sky-island distribution and taxonomic uncertainty. To validate our method, we also applied the same strategy on data from widely accepted species from the genus Drosophila. The results show that our CNN approach has a high capacity to distinguish among the simulated species delimitation scenarios, with higher accuracy than ABC. For the cactus data set, a splitter hypothesis without gene flow showed the highest probability in both CNN and ABC approaches, a result agreeing with previous taxonomic classifications and in line with the sky-island distribution and low dispersal of P. aurisetus. Our results highlight the cryptic diversity within the P. aurisetus complex and show that CNNs are a promising approach for distinguishing complex evolutionary histories, even outperforming the accuracy of other model-based approaches such as ABC.
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- Manolo F Perez
- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Sorocaba, Brazil.,Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Sorocaba, Brazil.,Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Diadema, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Sorocaba, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós Graduação em Botânica, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Sorocaba, Brazil
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Assunção‐Silva CC, Assis LCDS. Areas of endemism of Lauraceae: new insights on the biogeographic regionalization of the Espinhaço Range, Brazil. Cladistics 2021; 38:246-263. [DOI: 10.1111/cla.12481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2020] [Revised: 06/20/2021] [Accepted: 06/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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- Caroline Cristina Assunção‐Silva
- ¹Departamento de Botânica Instituto de Ciências Biológicas Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais31270‐901Brazil
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- ¹Departamento de Botânica Instituto de Ciências Biológicas Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais31270‐901Brazil
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This paper is an introduction to the special issue of the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society entitled OCBIL theory: a new science for old ecosystems. Firstly, we elaborate on the origins and development of OCBIL theory, which argues that landscape age, climatic buffering and soil fertility are key environmental dimensions shaping ecological and evolutionary processes across different scales. We then consider the 21 contributions made in this special issue in terms of cutting edge advances in the Southern Hemisphere that test, explore and apply aspects of OCBIL theory at the end of its first decade of formal publication. More attempts at refutation are urged, as untested aspects remain controversial. Lastly, a concluding discussion is offered on promising new lines of enquiry to develop the theory further and ensure its global application to pressing conservation issues facing biological and cultural diversity. Although OCBILs are absent or rare in much of the postglacial and periglacial Northern Hemisphere, we demonstrate, in south-west Europe and North America, starting with California, that they are likely to be found, thus extending the implications and applications of OCBIL theory in new directions. We also propose that, in many ways, Noongar Aboriginal cosmology from south-west Australia has developed sophisticated insights about ancient uplands that are precursors to key ideas in OCBIL theory.
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- Fernando A O Silveira
- Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627, Belo Horizonte, MG, 31270-901, Brazil
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- Natural Reserve System, University of California, Office of the President, Oakland,CA 94607-5200, USA
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- Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, School of Agriculture & Environment, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Terrace, Albany, WA 6330, Australia
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