caa a22 4500 605526605 CHVBK 20210128100804.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10531-015-0953-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10531-015-0953-1 How much do we know about the endangered Atlantic Forest? Reviewing nearly 70years of information on tree community surveys [Elektronische Daten] [Renato de Lima, Danilo Mori, Gregory Pitta, Melina Melito, Carolina Bello, Luiz Magnago, Victor Zwiener, Daniel Saraiva, Márcia Marques, Alexandre de Oliveira, Paulo Prado] The structure of the Atlantic Forest (AF) has been studied for almost 70years. However, the related existing knowledge is spread over hundreds of documents, many of them unpublished and/or difficult to access. Synthesis initiatives are available, but they are restricted to only a few parts or types of the AF or are focused on species occurrence. Here, we conducted an extensive review to compile quantitative tree community surveys on all types of the AF until 2013 and to study where and how these surveys were conducted. We found 1157 relevant references, containing 2441 forest surveys published since 1945. These surveys corresponded to 2.24 million trees and 1817ha of forests sampled. This total sampled area represents only 0.01% of the AF remnants, showing how limited our knowledge is on AF structure. For Paraguay and the Brazilian states of Bahia and Mato Grosso do Sul this proportion was much smaller. The same was true for evergreen rainforests, Brejos de altitude and deciduous forests and most probably for the rare cloud, swamp, Caxetal and Mussununga forests for which no accurate remnant estimates were found. Since the 1980s, the amount of AF area sampled each year has increased continuously, but approximately 100years will be necessary to sample at least 1% of the AF. Thus, we urgently need an enormous amount of high-quality quantitative data to overcome our limited knowledge of the AF and to support conservation programs aiming to safeguard this threatened biodiversity hotspot. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Forest inventories nationallicence Mata Atlântica nationallicence Phytosociology nationallicence Sampling methods nationallicence Tropical forest nationallicence de Lima Renato Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil aut Mori Danilo Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil aut Pitta Gregory Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil aut Melito Melina Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil aut Bello Carolina Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 13506-900, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil aut Magnago Luiz Departamento de Biologia, Setor de Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), 37200-000, Lavras, MG, Brazil aut Zwiener Victor Departamento de Botânica, Setor de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), PO Box 19031, 81531-980, Curitiba, PR, Brazil aut Saraiva Daniel Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil aut Marques Márcia Departamento de Botânica, Setor de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), PO Box 19031, 81531-980, Curitiba, PR, Brazil aut de Oliveira Alexandre Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil aut Prado Paulo Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil aut Biodiversity and Conservation Springer Netherlands 24/9(2015-09-01), 2135-2148 0960-3115 24:9<2135 2015 24 10531 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-015-0953-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-015-0953-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- de Lima Renato Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mori Danilo Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pitta Gregory Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Melito Melina Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bello Carolina Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 13506-900, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Magnago Luiz Departamento de Biologia, Setor de Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), 37200-000, Lavras, MG, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zwiener Victor Departamento de Botânica, Setor de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), PO Box 19031, 81531-980, Curitiba, PR, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Saraiva Daniel Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Marques Márcia Departamento de Botânica, Setor de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), PO Box 19031, 81531-980, Curitiba, PR, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- de Oliveira Alexandre Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Prado Paulo Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biodiversity and Conservation Springer Netherlands 24/9(2015-09-01), 2135-2148 0960-3115 24:9<2135 2015 24 10531