A relict species restricted to a quartzitic mountain in tropical America: an example of microrefugium?

ABSTRACTWe examined the distribution of Coccoloba cereifera,a tropical endemic species that occurs in a small area in the Espinhaço mountain range, southeastern Brazil. It is hypothesized that its narrow distribution is strongly related to the spatially scattered distribution of sandfields. However,...

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Main Authors: Newton Pimentel de Ulhôa Barbosa, G. Wilson Fernandes, Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Botânica do Brasil 2015-09-01
Series:Acta Botânica Brasílica
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062015000300299&lng=en&tlng=en

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