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,...
Main Authors: | Newton Pimentel de Ulhôa Barbosa, G. Wilson Fernandes, Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Sociedade Botânica do Brasil
2015-09-01
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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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