Last of the green: identifying priority sites to prevent plant extinctions in Brazil
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2016
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The identification and protection of Alliance for
Zero Extinction sites at the national level is of great importance
to safeguard biodiversity and achieve the targets of the
Convention on Biological Diversity for . Here we identify
priority species and sites for the Brazilian flora. We evaluated
the protection status of each site, taking into account
whether or not it was located within a protected area, and
the anthropogenic pressure on the site, using human density
and gross domestic product as surrogates. We identified a
total of trigger species at sites. Most of the sites
are located in the Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado; only
are within protected areas. There was no relationship of
human density and annual gross domestic product per capita
with the level of site protection. The low proportion of
Alliance for Zero Extinction sites protected shows that
Brazil is lagging behind in global conservation efforts to protect
such sites.
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Alliance for zero extinction, Threatened species, BAZE, Protected areas, Conservation priorities, Plants, Brazil
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DINIZ, Milena F.; GONCALVES, Tatiel V.; BRITO, Daniel. Last of the green: identifying priority sites to prevent plant extinctions in Brazil. Oryx, Cambridge, v. 51, n. 1, p. 131-136, 2017.