Taxonomic distinctness and conservation of a new high biodiversity subterranean area in Brazil

Subterranean environments, even though they do not possess a primary production (photosynthesis), may present high biodiversity, faunistic originality, endemism, phylogenetic isolations and unique ecological and/or evolution events, in addition to rare taxa. Studies investigating the biological dive...

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Main Authors: JONAS E. GALLÃO, MARIA ELINA BICHUETTE
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2015-03-01
Series:Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652015000100209&lng=en&tlng=en