Cerrado

tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil

The Cerrado (Portuguese pronunciation: [seˈʁadu], [sɛˈʁadu]) is a large ecoregion of tropical savanna in eastern Brazil. Most of it is in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Minas Gerais, and the Federal District. The main areas of the Cerrado biome are the Brazilian highlands (the Planalto). The main habitat types of the Cerrado are made of of forest savanna, wooded savanna, park savanna and gramineous-woody savanna. The Cerrado also has savanna wetlands and gallery forests. It is the second largest of Brazil's major habitat types, after the Amazonian rainforest. The Cerrado takes up 21 percent of the country's land area. Small parts of the Cerrado are in Paraguay and Bolivia.

Cerrado
Map of the Cerrado ecoregion made by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Ecology
RealmNeotropical
Biometropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
Borders
Geography
Area1,910,037 km2 (737,469 sq mi)
CountriesBrazil, Bolivia and Paraguay
Conservation
Conservation statusVulnerable
Global 200Cerrado woodlands and savannas
Protected433,581 km² (23%)[1]

References

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  1. Dinerstein, Eric; Olson, David; et al. (June 2017). "An ecoregion-based approach to protecting half the terrestrial realm". BioScience. 67 (6): 534–545, Supplemental material 2 table S1b. doi:10.1093/biosci/bix014. PMC 5451287. PMID 28608869.

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  • Oliveira, Paulo S. & Marquis, Robert J. (2002). The Cerrados of Brazil: Ecology and natural history of a neotropical savanna. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-12043-5.
  • BRANDÃO, M.; GAVILANES, M. L. (1992). Espécies árboreas padronizadoras do Cerrado mineiro e sua distribuição no Estado. Informe Agropecuário 16 (173): 5–11. (in Portuguese)
  • BRANDÃO, M.; CARVALHO, P. G. S.; JESUÉ, G. (1992). Guia Ilustrado de Plantas do Cerrado. (in Portuguese) CEMIG.
  • CASTRO, A. A. J. F., MARTINS F. R., TAMASHIRO, J. Y., SHEPHERD G. J. (1999). How rich is the flora of Brazilian Cerrados? Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86 (1): 192–224.
  • Coutinho, L.M. (c. 2000). "Cerrado". eco.ib.usp.br (in Portuguese). São Paulo: University of São Paulo. Archived from the original on 2019-05-25.
  • RATTER, J.A.; RIBEIRO, J.F. & BRIDGEWATER, S. (1997) The Brazilian Cerrado vegetation and Threats to its Biodiversity. Annals of Botany, 80: pp. 223–230.
  • LEITÃO FILHO, H.F. (1992). A flora arbórea dos Cerrados do Estado de São Paulo. Hoehnea 19 (1/2): 151–163. (in Portuguese)
  • MENDONÇA, R. C.; FELFILI, J. M.; WALTER, B. M. T.; SILVA, M. C.; REZENDE, FILGUEIRAS, T. S.; NOGUEIRA, P. E. Flora vascular do bioma Cerrado. ("Vascular flora of Cerrado biome") (in Portuguese) IBGE[permanent dead link]
  • Gottsberger, G. & Silberbauer-Gottsberger, I. (2006). Life in the Cerrado. Ulm, DE: Reta Verlag.

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