Using online databases to produce comprehensive accounts of the vascular plants from the Brazilian protected areas: The Parque Nacional do Itatiaia as a case study.

• Autor(a) principal: MOREIRA, M. M.
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: CARRIJO, T. T., ALVES-ARAÚJO, A., AMORIM, A. M. A., RAPINI, A., SILVA, A. V. S. da, COSENZA, B. A. P., LOPES, C. R., DELGADO, C. N., KAMEYAMA, C., COUTO, D. R., BARBOSA, D. E. F., MONTEIRO, D., GONZAGA, D. R., DALCIN, E. C., GUIMARÃES, E. F., LÍRIO, E. J. de, MATOS, F. B., SALIMENA, R. G. F., OLIVEIRA, F. A., HEIDEN, G., LANNA, J. M., BAUMGRATZ, J. F., PASTORE, J. F. B., OLIVEIRA, J. R. P. M., BARCELOS, L. B., SYLVESTRE, L. S., FREITAS, L., GIACOMIN, L. L., PEDERNEIRAS, L., MEIRELES, L. D., LOHMANN, L. G., PEREIRA, L. C., SILVA, L. A. e, NETO, L. M., SOUZA, M. C., TROVÓ, M., SOBRAL, M. E. G., GARBIN, M. L., GOMES, M., MORIM, M. P., MOTA, M. C. A., LABIAK, P. H., VIANA, P. L., MORAES, P. L. R. de, GOLDENBERG, R., COELHO, R. L. G., FURTADO, S. G., SILVA-NETO, S. J. da, FLORES, T. B., DUTRA, V. F., BUENO, V. R., FORZZA, R. C.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice)
• Texto Completo: http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/1123188
• topic: Biodiversidade; Planta

Brazil is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, with about 37,000 species of land plants. Part of this biodiversity is within protected areas. The development of online databases in the last years greatly improved the available biodiversity data. However, the existing databases do not provide information about the protected areas in which individual plant species occur. The lack of such information is a crucial gap for conservation actions. This study aimed to show how the information captured from online databases, cleaned by a protocol and verified by taxonomists allowed us to obtain a comprehensive list of the vascular plant species from the "Parque Nacional do Itatiaia", the first national park founded in Brazil. All existing records in the online database JABOT (15,100 vouchers) were downloaded, resulting in 11,783 vouchers identified at the species level. Overall, we documented 2,316 species belonging to 176 families and 837 genera of vascular plants in the "Parque Nacional do Itatiaia". Considering the whole vascular flora, 2,238 species are native and 78 are non-native.