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. 2019 Feb;100(2):e02541.
doi: 10.1002/ecy.2541.

ATLANTIC EPIPHYTES: a data set of vascular and non-vascular epiphyte plants and lichens from the Atlantic Forest

Flavio Nunes Ramos  1 , Sara Ribeiro Mortara  1 , Nathalia Monalisa-Francisco  1 , João Pedro Costa Elias  1 , Luiz Menini Neto  2 , Leandro Freitas  3 , Rodrigo Kersten  4 , André Márcio Amorim  5 , Fernando Bittencourt Matos  6 , André Felippe Nunes-Freitas  7 , Suzana Alcantara  8 , Marcia Helena Nagahama Alexandre  9 , Renata Jimenez de Almeida-Scabbia  10 , Odair José Garcia de Almeida  11 , Fernanda Eliane Alves  12 , Rogério Marcos de Oliveira Alves  13 , Francine Seehaber Alvim  2 , Antônio Carlos Silva de Andrade  3 , Simone de Andrade  14 , Lidyanne Yuriko Saleme Aona  15 , Andréa Cardoso Araujo  16 , Kelianne Carolina Targino de Araújo  17 , Vanessa Ariati  18 , Julia Camara Assis  19 , Cecília Oliveira de Azevedo  20 , Bruno Ferreira Barbosa  21 , Daniel Elias Ferreira Barbosa  2 , Fernando Dos Reis Barbosa  10 , Fabio de Barros  22 , Geicilaine Alves Basilio  21 , Fernando Antonio Bataghin  23 , Fernanda Bered  24 , Juliana Santos Bianchi  25 , Christopher Thomas Blum  26 , Carlos Renato Boelter  27 , Annete Bonnet  28 , Pedro Henrique Santin Brancalion  29 , Tiago Bӧer Breier  7 , Caio de Toledo Brion  21 , Cristiano Roberto Buzatto  30 , Andressa Cabral  31 , Tiago João Cadorin  14 , Eder Caglioni  14 , Luciana Canêz  16 , Pedro Henrique Cardoso  2 , Fábia Silva de Carvalho  32 , Renan Gonçalves Carvalho  1 , Eduardo Luis Martins Catharino  22 , Sergio Javier Ceballos  33 , Monise Terra Cerezini  34 , Ricardo Gomes César  29 , Cesar Cestari  35 , Cleber Juliano Neves Chaves  36 , Vanilde Citadini-Zanette  37 , Luiz Francisco Mello Coelho  38 , João Vicente Coffani-Nunes  9 , Renato Colares  37 , Gabriel Dalla Colletta  39 , Nadjara de Medeiros Corrêa  7 , Andrea Ferreira da Costa  40 , Grênivel Mota da Costa  15 , Laís Mara Santana Costa  24 , Natália Gabriela Souza Costa  1 , Dayvid Rodrigues Couto  40 , Caroline Cristofolini  14 , Ana Carolina Rodrigues da Cruz  40 , Leopoldo Angelo Del Neri  9 , Mercedes di Pasquo  41 , Aline Dos Santos Dias  42 , Letícia do Carmo Dutra Dias  2 , Ricardo Dislich  43 , Marília Cristina Duarte  10 , Juliano Ricardo Fabricante  17 , Fernando Henrique Antoniolli Farache  44 , Ana Paula Gelli de Faria  2 , Claudenice Faxina  45 , Mariana Terrola Martins Ferreira  46 , Erich Fischer  16 , Carlos Roberto Fonseca  47 , Talita Fontoura  48 , Talitha Mayumi Francisco  49 , Samyra Gomes Furtado  2 , Mauro Galetti  19 , Mário Luís Garbin  50 , André Luís de Gasper  14 , Márcia Goetze  24 , Janaína Gomes-da-Silva  3 , Mateus Felipe Araujo Gonçalves  1 , Diego Rafael Gonzaga  3 , Ana Carolina Granero E Silva  1 , André de Camargo Guaraldo  51 , Ernestino de Souza Gomes Guarino  52 , Aline Votri Guislon  37 , Luigy Bitencourt Hudson  2 , Jomar Gomes Jardim  53 , Patricia Jungbluth  54 , Selma Dos Santos Kaeser  21 , Igor Musauer Kessous  40 , Natália Mossmann Koch  16 , Yoshiko Saito Kuniyoshi  26 , Paulo Henrique Labiak  6 , Maria Esther Lapate  44 , Ana Carolina Laurenti Santos  55 , Roberta Luísa Barbosa Leal  3 , Felipe Silveira Leite  56 , Paula Leitman  3 , Ana Paula Liboni  39   57 , Dieter Liebsch  26 , Débora Vanessa Lingner  14 , Julio Antonio Lombardi  36 , Eve Lucas  58 , Jhonny Dos Reis Luzzi  21 , Patricia Mai  59 , Luiz Felipe Mania  60 , Waldir Mantovani  61 , Angelica Guidoni Maragni  22   62 , Marcia Cristina Mendes Marques  6 , Gonzalo Marquez  63 , Cristiane Martins  64 , Laura do Nascimento Martins  7 , Pedro Luiz Sanglard Silva Martins  2 , Frederico Fregolente Faracco Mazziero  6 , Camila de Aguiar Melo  24 , Maria Margarida Fiuza de Melo  65 , Alex Fernando Mendes  29 , Letícia Mesacasa  8 , Leonor Patricia Cerdeira Morellato  36 , Vanessa de Souza Moreno  29 , Adelcio Muller  34 , Mariana Moreira da Silva Murakami  7 , Edinete Cecconello  66 , Camila Nardy  2 , Michelle Helena Nervo  67 , Beatriz Neves  40 , Matheus Guimarães Cardoso Nogueira  40 , Fabiana Regina Nonato  39 , Ary Teixeira de Oliveira-Filho  56 , César Pedro Lopes de Oliveira  14 , Gerhard Ernst Overbeck  67 , Gabriel Mendes Marcusso  36 , Mateus Luís Barradas Paciencia  68 , Patricia Padilha  8 , Peterson Teodoro Padilha  37 , Ana Clara Alves Pereira  2 , Luciana Carvalho Pereira  2 , Rodrigo Augusto Santinelo Pereira  44 , Jimmy Pincheira-Ulbrich  69 , José Salatiel Rodrigues Pires  70 , Marco Aurélio Pizo  35 , Kátia Cavalcanti Pôrto  71 , Ludmila Rattis  72   73 , Joice Rodrigues de Mendonça Reis  13 , Simone Gonçalves Dos Reis  21 , Thereza Christina da Rocha-Pessôa  7 , Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha  42 , Fernando Souza Rocha  74 , Alba Regina Pereira Rodrigues  75 , Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues  57 , Juliana Marcia Rogalski  66 , Roberta Luiza Rosanelli  76 , Andrés Rossado  77 , Davi Rodrigo Rossatto  78 , Débora Cristina Rother  39   57 , Carlos Ramon Ruiz-Miranda  49 , Felipe Zamborlini Saiter  79 , Mauricio Bonesso Sampaio  1 , Lucas Deziderio Santana  80 , Juliana Silveira Dos Santos  19 , Ricardo Sartorello  10 , Marlies Sazima  39 , Juliane Luzía Schmitt  41 , Geniane Schneider  81 , Bruna Grosch Schroeder  14 , Lucia Sevegnani  14 , Vasconcelos Oliveira Silva Júnior  21 , Fernando Rodrigues da Silva  21 , Maria Juliana da Silva  82 , Mércia Patrícia Pereira Silva  71 , Rafaela Guimarães Silva  80 , Sandro Menezes Silva  83 , Rodrigo Bustos Singer  67 , Geovane Siqueira  84 , Luis Eduardo Soares  24 , Hildeberto Caldas de Sousa  46 , Adriano Spielmann  16 , Vinicius Rodrigues Tonetti  19 , Maria Teresa Zugliani Toniato  85 , Paulo Sérgio Bordoni Ulguim  21 , Cássio van den Berg  86 , Eduardo van den Berg  80 , Isabela Galarda Varassin  6 , Izabela Bitencourt Veloso da Silva  7 , Alexander Christian Vibrans  14 , Jorge Luiz Waechter  67 , Erick Willy Weissenberg  9 , Paulo Günter Windisch  67 , Marina Wolowski  1 , Agustina Yañez  87 , Vania Nobuko Yoshikawa  10 , Luciano Ramos Zandoná  22   62 , Camila Martini Zanella  24 , Elisabete Maria Zanin  88 , Daniela Cristina Zappi  89 , Valesca Bononi Zipparro  36 , João Paulo Fernandes Zorzanelli  90 , Milton Cezar Ribeiro  19
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ATLANTIC EPIPHYTES: a data set of vascular and non-vascular epiphyte plants and lichens from the Atlantic Forest

Flavio Nunes Ramos et al. Ecology. 2019 Feb.

Abstract

Epiphytes are hyper-diverse and one of the frequently undervalued life forms in plant surveys and biodiversity inventories. Epiphytes of the Atlantic Forest, one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, have high endemism and radiated recently in the Pliocene. We aimed to (1) compile an extensive Atlantic Forest data set on vascular, non-vascular plants (including hemiepiphytes), and lichen epiphyte species occurrence and abundance; (2) describe the epiphyte distribution in the Atlantic Forest, in order to indicate future sampling efforts. Our work presents the first epiphyte data set with information on abundance and occurrence of epiphyte phorophyte species. All data compiled here come from three main sources provided by the authors: published sources (comprising peer-reviewed articles, books, and theses), unpublished data, and herbarium data. We compiled a data set composed of 2,095 species, from 89,270 holo/hemiepiphyte records, in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, recorded from 1824 to early 2018. Most of the records were from qualitative data (occurrence only, 88%), well distributed throughout the Atlantic Forest. For quantitative records, the most common sampling method was individual trees (71%), followed by plot sampling (19%), and transect sampling (10%). Angiosperms (81%) were the most frequently registered group, and Bromeliaceae and Orchidaceae were the families with the greatest number of records (27,272 and 21,945, respectively). Ferns and Lycophytes presented fewer records than Angiosperms, and Polypodiaceae were the most recorded family, and more concentrated in the Southern and Southeastern regions. Data on non-vascular plants and lichens were scarce, with a few disjunct records concentrated in the Northeastern region of the Atlantic Forest. For all non-vascular plant records, Lejeuneaceae, a family of liverworts, was the most recorded family. We hope that our effort to organize scattered epiphyte data help advance the knowledge of epiphyte ecology, as well as our understanding of macroecological and biogeographical patterns in the Atlantic Forest. No copyright restrictions are associated with the data set. Please cite this Ecology Data Paper if the data are used in publication and teaching events.

Keywords: Atlantic Forest; abundance; biodiversity data set; biodiversity hotspot; epiphyte; phorophyte; presence/absence; tropical forest.

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