ecological adaptation of wild peach palm, its in situ conservation and deforestation-mediated extinction in southern brazilian amazonia生态适应毛桃棕榈,原位保护和在巴西亚马逊河流域南部deforestation-mediated灭绝.pdfVIP

Ecological Adaptation of Wild Peach Palm, Its In Situ Conservation and Deforestation-Mediated Extinction in Southern Brazilian Amazonia 1 2 1 3 ˜ ´ Charles R. Clement *, Ronaldo P. Santos , Sylvain J. M. Desmouliere , Evandro J. L. Ferreira , Joao Tome Farias Neto4 ˆ ˜ ´ 1 Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil, 2 Instituto Nacional de Colonizac¸ao e Reforma Agraria, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil, 3 Instituto ˆ ˆ ´ ´ Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Nucleus – Acre, Rio Branco, Acre, Brasil, 4 Embrapa Amazonia Oriental, Belem, Para, Brasil Abstract Background: The Arc of Fire across southern Amazonia seasonally attracts worldwide attention as forests are cut and burned for agricultural expansion. These forests contain numerous wild relatives of native South American crops, such as peach palm. Methodology/Principal Findings: Our prospecting expeditions examined critical areas for wild peach palm in the Arc of Fire ´ ˜ ´ in Mato Grosso, Para, Maranhao and Tocantins, as well as areas not previously examined in Amazonas and Amapa states. Recent digitization of the RADAM Brasil project permitted comparison among RADAM’s parataxonomists’ observations, previous botanical collections and our prospecting. Mapping on soils and vegetation types enabled us to hypothesize a set of ecological preferences. Wild peach palm i