Tropical mountains as natural laboratories to study global changes: A long-term ecological research project in a megadiverse biodiversity hotspot

• Published in: Perspectives in plant ecology, evolution and systematics Vol. 38; pp. 64 - 73
• Main Authors: Silveira, Fernando A.O., Barbosa, Milton, Beiroz, Wallace, Callisto, Marcos, Macedo, Diego R., Morellato, Leonor Patrícia Cerdeira, Neves, Frederico S., Nunes, Yule R.F., Solar, Ricardo R., Fernandes, G. Wilson
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier GmbH 01.06.2019
• Subjects: biodiversity; Brazil; Cerrado; climate; Elevation; Espinhaço range; flora; global change; hosts; indigenous species; issues and policy; Long-term ecological research; Monitoring; mountains; prediction; research projects; Rupestrian grassland; sampling; soil; vegetation; Brazil; Elevation; Cerrado; Espinhaço range; Rupestrian grassland; Long-term ecological research; Monitoring

•We summarize a long-term ecological research in a megadiverse montane grassland.•We provide data on climate, soil, plant communities, plant mutualists and antagonists.•Our goal is to integrate information into global mountain assessment networks. Campo rupestre is a megadiverse vegetation mosaic do...