Caatinga Revisited: Ecology and Conservation of an Important Seasonal Dry Forest

Paulino Albuquerque, Ulysses; de Lima Araújo, Elcida; Carla Asfora El-Deir, Ana; Luiz Alves de Lima, André; Souto, Antonio; M. Bezerra, Bruna; Maria Nogueira Ferraz, Elba; María Xavier Freire, Eliza; Valadares de Sá Barreto Sampaio, Everardo; Maria Guedes Las‐Casas, Flor; Jorge Barbosa de Moura, Geraldo; Alves Pereira, Glauco; Gomes de Melo, Joabe; Alves Ramos, Marcelo; Jesus Nogueira Rodal, Maria; Schiel, Nicola; Maria de Lyra Neves, Rachel; Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Rômulo; Mendes de Azevedo‐Júnior, Severino; Rodrigues Telino Júnior, Wallace; Severi, William

doi:10.1100/2012/205182

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Caatinga Revisited: Ecology and Conservation of an Important Seasonal Dry Forest

Published in The Scientific World JOURNAL • Jan 1, 2012

Authors:

Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

Elcida de Lima Araújo

Ana Carla Asfora El-Deir

Abstract

Besides its extreme climate conditions, the Caatinga (a type of tropical seasonal forest) hosts an impressive faunal and floristic biodiversity. In the last 50 years there has been a considerable increase in the number of studies in the area. Here we aimed to present a review of these studies, focus...

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Ecology

Ethnobiology

Biodiversity

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