Funções ecossistêmicas em paisagens fragmentadas

Abstract

Expressive efforts have been made to understand the impacts, about isolated effects, from anthropic disturbances in vegetation. However, the greatest threats to biodiversity conservation and the maintenance of ecosystem functions are the combined effects of factors such as climate and landscape, from processes such as climate change and land use conversion occur simultaneously and continue to accelerate fastly. Because of this problem, the present thesis was structured in two chapters: a literature review and a paper. The review contemplates the basic ecological themes and concepts for manuscript construction. While the paper aims to analyze how the climate, the soil, and the landscape influence the diversity and carbon stock of tree communities in tropical forests. On the same way of, the effects of diversity on the carbon stock. Our results demonstrate the occurrence of interactions between landscape with climate and diversity affecting ecosystem functions. Thus, these findings highlight the need for holistic approaches to the conservation of Atlantic tropical forest remnants.