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      Composição taxonômica e distribuição de anuros no Alto e Médio Paranapanema, estado de São Paulo Translated title: Taxonomic composition and distribution of anurans in the Upper and Middle Paranapanema, São Paulo state, Brazil

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          A fauna de anuros do estado de São Paulo pode ser considerada a mais conhecida no país. No entanto, ainda existem consideráveis lacunas amostrais no estado, sobretudo em remanescentes de vegetação natural das bacias hidrográficas do rio Paranapanema. Neste sentido, o objetivo deste estudo foi reunir informações sobre a composição taxonômica, distribuição e o status de conservação dos anuros no Alto e Médio Paranapanema, auxiliando na identificação dos municípios que ainda permanecem como vazios amostrais deste táxon nestas bacias hidrográficas. Dos 91 municípios avaliados, apenas 15 (16%) podem ser classificados como relativamente bem amostrados, tendo sido estudados por longos períodos e vários pesquisadores. Registrou-se um total de 124 espécies de anuros, pertencentes a 36 gêneros e 12 famílias (Brachycephalidae, Bufonidae, Centrolenidae, Ceratophryidae, Craugastoridae, Cycloramphidae, Odontophrynidae, Hemiphractidae, Hylidae, Hylodidae, Leptodactylidae e Microhylidae). A riqueza de anuros registrada no Alto Paranapanema é muito superior à encontrada no Médio Paranapanema, existindo uma diminuição gradual na riqueza de espécies partindo da porção sul e sudeste do Alto Paranapanema, onde predominam a floresta ombrófila, em direção ao Médio Paranapanema que apresenta uma dominância das formações de Cerrado e floresta estacional semidecidual. Este estudo é uma importante contribuição para ampliar o conhecimento sobre a diversidade de anuros no Cerrado e Mata Atlântica, os dois hotspots mundiais prioritários para a conservação biológica existentes no país.

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          The anurans of São Paulo state are the best known in Brazil. However, there are still considerable gaps in the sampling of anurans in the state, especially within the natural vegetation remnants of the Paranapanema River watersheds. The purpose of this study was to collect information on the taxonomic composition, distribution, and conservation status of anurans in the Upper and Middle Paranapanema, thus helping to identify the municipalities poorly known for this taxon in these regions. Of the 91 municipalities analyzed, only 15 (16%) could be classified as relatively well sampled, having been studied for long periods by various researchers. We recorded 124 anuran species belonging to 36 genera and 12 families (Brachycephalidae, Bufonidae, Centrolenidae, Ceratophryidae, Craugastoridae, Cycloramphidae, Odontophrynidae, Hemiphractidae, Hylidae, Hylodidae, Leptodactylidae, and Microhylidae). The species richness of the anurans found in the Upper Paranapanema was far greater than that in the Middle Paranapanema. The species richness gradually decreases from the southern and southeastern portion of the Upper Paranapanema, where ombrophilous forest predominate, towards the Middle Paranapanema, where Cerrado formations and seasonal semideciduous forest are dominant. The findings of this study are important to expanding our knowledge on anuran diversity in the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest, which are two priority global hotspots for biodiversity conservation in Brazil.

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              Land cover mapping of the tropical savanna region in Brazil.

              The Brazilian tropical savanna (Cerrado), encompassing more than 204 million hectares in the central part of the country, is the second richest biome in Brazil in terms of biodiversity and presents high land use pressure. The objective of this study was to map the land cover of the Cerrado biome based on the segmentation and visual interpretation of 170 Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus satellite scenes acquired in 2002. The following land cover classes were discriminated: grasslands, shrublands, forestlands, croplands, pasturelands, reforestations, urban areas, and mining areas. The results showed that the remnant natural vegetation is still covering about 61% of the biome, however, on a highly asymmetrical basis. While natural physiognomies comprise 90% of the northern part of the biome, only 15% are left in its southern portions. Shrublands were the dominant natural land cover class, while pasturelands were the dominant land use class in the Cerrado biome. The final Cerrado's land cover map confirmed the intensive land use pressure in this unique biome. This paper also showed that Landsat-like sensors can provide feasible land cover maps of Cerrado, although ancillary data are required to help image interpretation.
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                Biota Neotropica
                Biota Neotrop.
                Instituto Virtual da Biodiversidade | BIOTA - FAPESP (Campinas )
                1676-0611
                September 2013
                : 13
                : 3
                : 241-258
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Horto Florestal Brasil
                [2 ] Horto Florestal Brasil
                [3 ] Instituto Butantan Brazil
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                S1676-06032013000300241
                10.1590/S1676-06032013000300027
                02311c0b-a62d-423d-8966-027cc8971b7e

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                Self URI (journal page): http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=1676-0603&lng=en
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                BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

                Animal science & Zoology
                amphibians,Cerrado,conservation,inventory,Paranapanema River watersheds,anfíbios,Mata Atlântica,conservação,inventário,bacias hidrográficas do rio Paranapanema,Atlantic Forest

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