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Conservation biogeography of anurans in Brazilian Cerrado

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The increasing rates of declines in anuran populations worldwide are creating demands for urgent strategies to maximize conservation efforts. This may be critical in regions for which few detailed data on diversity, abundance and distribution are available, such as in the Cerrado of Central Brazil. In this paper, we used a macroecological approach based on the extent of occurrence of 131 species of Anura (Amphibia) in the Cerrado region to design a regional network of potential areas that preserves all anuran species. The final network, obtained using a simulation annealing algorithm based on complementarity, has a total of 17 cells, widely distributed throughout the biome. Minimum costs solutions were obtained in respect to total human population size, soybean production and bovine density, because these are the factors associated with human occupation that historically are more likely to cause broad scale habitat losses. The macro-scale approach used here can provide overall guidelines for conservation and define the focus for more local and effective conservation efforts.

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  1. Departamento de Biologia Geral, ICB, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Cx. P. 131, CEP 74001-970, Goiânia, GO, Brazil

    José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho, Luis Mauricio Bini & Rogério Pereira Bastos

  2. Departamento de Biologia/MCAS, Universidade Católica de Goiás (UCG), Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil

    José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho

  3. Graduate program in Ecology & Evolution, ICB, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil

    Míriam Plaza Pinto & Thiago Fernando L. V. B. Rangel

  4. Graduate program in Ecology of Continental Aquatic Ecosystems, NUPELIA, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

    Priscilla Carvalho

  5. Departamento de Ciência da Computação/MCAS, Universidade Católica de Goiás (UCG), Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil

    Sibelius Lellis Vieira

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Diniz-Filho, J. et al. (2006). Conservation biogeography of anurans in Brazilian Cerrado. In: Hawksworth, D.L., Bull, A.T. (eds) Vertebrate Conservation and Biodiversity. Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6320-6_11

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