The study of biotic interactions in the Brazilian Cerrado as a path to the conservation of biodiversity

• Autor(a) principal: DEL-CLARO,KLEBER
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: TOREZAN-SILINGARDI,HELENA MAURA
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652019000600614
• topic: ant-plant interactions; ecosystem; tropical savanna; Veredas

Abstract: As a focus for conservation efforts, biodiversity has received increased attention in the last fifty years. Searching for patterns in biodiversity, researchers have suggested studies including: ecological communities, cladistics classifications, hierarchical compositions of different levels of organization, and groups of taxonomically related species. Here, we propose that the study of the biodiversity of interactions may present a new perspective in the efforts to conserve biodiversity, especially in endangered ecosystems like the tropical savannas. We suggest that Cerrado, like other tropical savannas, is a particularly important ecosystem in which we can direct efforts to explain what determines the major part of variation in the outcomes of species interactions.