Plant Diversity in Three Reserves in Southern Bahia, Brazil

巴西的沿海雨林曾经沿着巴西海岸绵延3000公里。由于动植物的高度地方性，以及由于仅存的少量森林被迅速砍伐，世界野生动物基金会承认巴西的大西洋沿岸森林是地球上最濒危的栖息地之一。在沿海森林生态系统中，包括巴伊亚南部在内的巴西东北部受到的威胁最大，只有不到0.5%的原始森林仍处于值得拯救的状态。该项目将收集巴西南部巴伊亚州三个巴西保护区(乌纳生物保护区、蒙特帕斯科尔国家公园和塞拉·多·康杜鲁州立公园)热带雨林中的维管束植物和苔藓植物。这些森林中约一半的具体多样性(估计约1,500种)在树冠和树冠下，这是植物区系中收集最少、记录最少的部分。到项目结束时，私人投资机构将收集各种植物区系的准备充分、肥沃的标本；编制每个保护区植物的注解清单；并编制所有三个保护区的累积清单，这将形成巴西安南部沿海森林植物区系的核心清单。

ThomasDEB-9972116The coastal rain forest of Brazil once exteded 3,000 km along the coast of Brazil. Because of the high endemism of the flora and fauna and because of the rapid deforestation of the little that remains, the World Wildlfie Fund recognizes the Atlantic coastal forest of Brazil as one of the most endangered habitats on earth. Within the coastal forest biome, northeastern Brazil, including southern Bahia, is the most threatened, with less that 0.5% of the original forest remaining in a condition worth saving. This project will collect the vascular plants and bryophytes in the rain forests of three Brazilian reserves (Una Biological reserve, the Monte Pascoal National Park, and the Serra do Conduru State Park) in southern Bahia, Brazil. Approximately half of the specific diversity in these forests (estimated at around 1,500 species) is in the canopy and subcanopy trees, the most poorly collected and least documented part of the flora. By the end of the project, the PIs will have collected well-prepared, fertile specimens of a diverse flora; produced annotated checklists of the plants of each reserve; and compiled a cumulative checklist for all three reserves which will form a core checklist of the flora of the southern Bahian coastal forest.