@article {Bitencourt:2013:1477-2000:525,title = "Centres of Endemism in the Espinha{\c{c}}o Range: identifying cradles and museums of Asclepiadoideae (Apocynaceae)",
journal = "Systematics and Biodiversity",
parent_itemid = "infobike://tandf/tsab20",
publishercode ="tandf",
year = "2013",
volume = "11",
number = "4",
publication date ="2013-12-01T00:00:00",
pages = "525-536",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1477-2000",
eissn = "1478-0933",
url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/tsab20/2013/00000011/00000004/art00010",
doi = "doi:10.1080/14772000.2013.865681",
keyword = "biogeography, endemics, conservation, Brazil, campos rupestres, Neotropics"
abstract = "Although the high diversity of neotropical plants is often associated with rain forests, another important location is open vegetation at mountain tops. In the present study, we investigated the phytogeographic patterns of the Espinha{\c{c}}o Range, in eastern Brazil, a region characterized
by campos rupestres and marked by high levels of plant richness and endemism. Based on the occurrence of Asclepiadoideae (Apocynaceae) in a grid of 0.5\textordmasculine \texttimes 0.5\textordmasculine cells, we conducted cluster analyses and parsimony analysis of endemicity (PAE). We also calculated indexes
of diversity and endemism and examined the distribution of palaeo- and neo-endemics. According to our data, the topographic gap between the Espinha{\c{c}}o Range of Minas Gerais and Bahia seems to be an important constraint for the dispersion of endemics, and the floristic similarity between
northern Minas Gerais and Bahia is a result of species with broad distribution. Based on the seven areas of endemism that emerged from PAE, we defined five principal centres of endemism in the Espinha{\c{c}}o Range, including the region comprising Serra do Cip{\’o} and the Diamantina Plateau,
in Minas Gerais, as the major Asclepiadoideae cradle, and Chapada Diamantina, in Bahia, as an Asclepiadoideae museum.",
author = "Bitencourt, C{\’a}ssia and Rapini, Alessandro",
}