Authors
Fernando AO Silveira, Daniel Negreiros, Newton PU Barbosa, Elise Buisson, Flávio F Carmo, Daniel W Carstensen, Abel A Conceição, Tatiana G Cornelissen, Lívia Echternacht, G Wilson Fernandes, Queila S Garcia, Tadeu J Guerra, Claudia M Jacobi, José P Lemos-Filho, Soizig Le Stradic, Leonor Patrícia C Morellato, Frederico S Neves, Rafael S Oliveira, Carlos E Schaefer, Pedro L Viana, Hans Lambers
Publication date
2016/6
Source
Plant and soil
Volume
403
Pages
129-152
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Description
Background
Botanists, ecologists and evolutionary biologists are familiar with the astonishing species richness and endemism of the fynbos of the Cape Floristic Region and the ancient and unique flora of the kwongkan of south-western Australia. These regions represent old climatically-buffered infertile landscapes (OCBILs) that are the basis of a general hypothesis to explain their richness and endemism. However, few ecologists are familiar with the campo rupestre of central and eastern Brazil, an extremely old mountaintop ecosystem that is both a museum of ancient lineages and a cradle of continuing diversification of endemic lineages.
Scope
Diversification of some lineages of campo rupestre pre-dates diversification of lowland cerrado, suggesting it may be the most ancient open vegetation in eastern South America. This vegetation comprises more …
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