Paula Leitman

Paula Leitman
Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro

Master of Science

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Amorim, André M.A.; Amorim, Bruno S.; Amorim, Vivian O.; Andrade, Ivanilza M.; André, Thiago; Andreata, Regina H.P.; Andrino, Caroline O.; Angulo, María B.; Antar, Guilherme M.; Aona, Lidyanne Y.S.; Arana, Marcelo; Aranha Filho, João L.M.; Araújo, Andréa O.; Araújo, Camila C.; Araújo, Cintia A.T.; Araújo, Mário H.T.; Asprino, Renata C.; Assis, Fran...
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The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiver-sity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. This deficit creates a significant taxo-nomic impediment to biodiversity research and conservation planning. The taxonomic impedi...
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The digital era provides new opportunities for taxonomists, as well as for everyone that studies biodiversity. Many herbaria have been able to digitize their collections, a process that started with the typing of label data, moving more recently towards the digitization of each sample with the simultaneous acquisition of high-resolution images. Her...
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The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiver-sity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. This deficit creates a significant taxo-nomic impediment to biodiversity research and conservation planning. The taxonomic impedi...
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The urge to organise the world around us is an essential part of human nature. Naming and categorising enable us to store and access information ef ciently. The need to name and categorise extends to the natural world and, in particular, to living organisms. The science underpinning this area of knowledge is called Taxonomy, and is as old as humani...
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The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and contribute to sustainable development. To achieve this overarching goal, the GSPC has established a series of targets, one of which is to ensure that plant diversity is well understood, s...
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Herbarium specimens are increasingly recognized as an important resource for conservation science and virtual herbaria are making specimens freely available to a wider range of users than ever before. Few virtual herbaria are designed with conservation use as a primary driver. Exceptionally, Brazil's Reflora Virtual Herbarium (RVH) was created to i...
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Epiphytes are hyper‐diverse and one of the frequently undervalued life forms in plant surveys and biodiversity inventories. Epiphytes of the Atlantic Forest, one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, have high endemism and radiated recently in the Pliocene. We aimed to (1) compile an extensive Atlantic Forest data set on vascular, non‐vas...
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The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and contribute to sustainable development. To achieve this overarching goal, the GSPC has established a series of targets, one of which is to ensure that plant diversity is well understood, s...
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The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and contribute to sustainable development. To achieve this overarching goal, the GSPC has established a series of targets, one of which is to ensure that plant diversity is well understood, s...
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The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and contribute to sustainable development. To achieve this overarching goal, the GSPC has established a series of targets, one of which is to ensure that plant diversity is well understood, s...
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The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and contribute to sustainable development. To achieve this overarching goal, the GSPC has established a series of targets, one of which is to ensure that plant diversity is well understood, s...
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The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and contribute to sustainable development. To achieve this overarching goal, the GSPC has established a series of targets, one of which is to ensure that plant diversity is well understood, s...
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The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and contribute to sustainable development. To achieve this overarching goal, the GSPC has established a series of targets, one of which is to ensure that plant diversity is well understood, s...
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The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and contribute to sustainable development. To achieve this overarching goal, the GSPC has established a series of targets, one of which is to ensure that plant diversity is well understood, s...
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The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and contribute to sustainable development. To achieve this overarching goal, the GSPC has established a series of targets, one of which is to ensure that plant diversity is well understood, s...
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The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and contribute to sustainable development. To achieve this overarching goal, the GSPC has established a series of targets, one of which is to ensure that plant diversity is well understood, s...
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Amorim, André M.A.; Amorim, Bruno S.; Amorim, Vivian O.; Andrade, Ivanilza M.; André, Thiago; Andreata, Regina H.P.; Andrino, Caroline O.; Angulo, María B.; Antar, Guilherme M.; Aona, Lidyanne Y.S.; Arana, Marcelo; Aranha Filho, João L.M.; Araújo, Andréa O.; Araújo, Camila C.; Araújo, Cintia A.T.; Araújo, Mário H.T.; Asprino, Renata C.; Assis, Fran...
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The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and contribute to sustainable development. To achieve this overarching goal, the GSPC has established a series of targets, one of which is to ensure that plant diversity is well understood, s...
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The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and contribute to sustainable development. To achieve this overarching goal, the GSPC has established a series of targets, one of which is to ensure that plant diversity is well understood, s...
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The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and contribute to sustainable development. To achieve this overarching goal, the GSPC has established a series of targets, one of which is to ensure that plant diversity is well understood, s...
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This paper provides a quantitative and general description of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden herbarium (RB) dataset. Created over a century ago, the RB currently comprises ca. 750,000 mounted specimens, with a strong representation of Brazilian flora, mainly from the Atlantic and Amazon forests. Nearly 100% of these specimens have been entered...
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Amorim, André M.A.; Amorim, Bruno S.; Amorim, Vivian O.; Andrade, Ivanilza M.; André, Thiago; Andreata, Regina H.P.; Andrino, Caroline O.; Angulo, María B.; Antar, Guilherme M.; Aona, Lidyanne Y.S.; Arana, Marcelo; Aranha Filho, João L.M.; Araújo, Andréa O.; Araújo, Camila C.; Araújo, Cintia A.T.; Araújo, Mário H.T.; Asprino, Renata C.; Assis, Fran...
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This booklet provides an overview of Reflora for a general readership. Reflora is an initiative which aims to increase access to and use of Brazilian plant diversity information deposited in institutions within and outside Brazil. This booklet was developed in partnership between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (England) and the Jardim Botânico do R...
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Two new species of Peperomia of mountain forests from southern Bahia state, P. epipremnifolia and P. sulbahiensis, are described and illustrated. Information on their conservation status, habitat, distribution, phenology, and comments on how to differentiate them from closely related taxa is presented. In addition, an identification key to the spec...
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An updated inventory of Brazilian seed plants is presented and offers important insights into the country’s biodiversity. This work started in 2010, with the publication of the Plants and Fungi Catalogue, and has been updated since by more than 430 specialists working online. Brazil is home to 32,086 native Angiosperms and 23 native Gymnosperms, sh...
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An updated inventory of Brazilian seed plants is presented and offers important insights into the country’s biodiversity. This work started in 2010, with the publication of the Plants and Fungi Catalogue, and has been updated since by more than 430 specialists working online. Brazil is home to 32,086 native Angiosperms and 23 native Gymnosperms, sh...
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Maria Carolina de Abreu, Pedro Acevedo Rodríguez, Maria de Fátima Agra, Eduardo Bezerra de Almeida Jr., Gracineide Selma Santos de Almeida, Flávio Macedo Alves, Marccus Alves, Anderson Alves-Araujo, Maria do Carmo Estanislau do Amaral, André Marcio Araujo Amorim, Bruno Amorim, Ivanilza M. Andrade, Caroline O. Andrino, Elisete A. Anunciação, Lidyann...
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To assess the main factors driving epiphytic angiosperm distribution throughout the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, we compiled 57 floristic surveys and analysed species composition under the influence of environmental variables, space and vegetation type using canonical correspondence analysis (CCA), similarity (Sorensen) and Mantel's tests. The indica...
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Email Print Request Permissions A Species List of Flora is a working list of scientific descriptions of all known plants occurring within a given region. It represents an inventory in process, i.e., updates and new plant species are added every working day. The Flora checklist has an important value for the scientific community, government, indust...
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The Atlantic Forest in southern Bahia State, Brazil, has high levels of diversity and vascular plant endemism. There have been few floristic surveys of the mountain forests there, however, especially those focusing on herbs and canopy plants, with studies of Atlantic Forest epiphytes having been limited to the southern and southeastern region of th...
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A new species of Acanthaceae from southern Bahia state, Clistax bahiensis Profice & Leitman, is described and illustrated. A comparison with previously described taxa in the genus, C. brasiliensis Mart. and C. speciosus Nees reveals distinct characteristics from the formers such as dimorphic bracteoles (anterior oblong-lanceolate and posterior lanc...
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IDtools] [rrc@fieldmuseum.org] Rapid Color Guide # 354 version 1 01/2013 1 Anthurium gladiifolium ARACEAE 2 Anthurium gladiifolium ARACEAE 3 Anthurium gracile ARACEAE 4 Anthurium gracile ARACEAE 5 Anthurium jilekii ARACEAE 6 Anthurium jilekii ARACEAE 7 Anthurium pentaphyllum ARACEAE 8 Anthurium pentaphyllum ARACEAE 9 Anthurium scandens ARACEAE 10 A...
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A comprehensive new inventory of Brazilian plants and fungi was published just in time to meet a 2010 Convention on Biological Diversity target and offers important insights into this biodiversity's global significance. Brazil is the home to the world's richest flora (40,989 species; 18,932 endemic) and includes two of the hottest hotspots: Mata At...
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Large-scale systematic efforts, both floristic and taxonomic, are the result of the unification of information found in smaller-scale projects or even collections. Three examples, all from tropical America, are presented to illustrate how these data and ideas are pooled. The effort to monograph the genus Leiothrix (Eriocaulaceae) is the successful...
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Este capítulo, integrante do primeiro volume do “Catálogo de plantas e fungos do Brasil” (2010), analisa a diversidade e o endemismo das angiospermas no Brasil. As famílias foram baseadas em APG II (2003) e as análises feitas por região política, estado da federação e por domínio fitogeográfico.
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(Bromeliaceae of the brazilian Atlantic Forest: checklist, distribution and conservation) The Atlantic Forest is amongst the most important tropical forests in the world, being considered a priority for conservation due to the high degree of threat to its megadiversity. In this forest, Bromeliaceae is one of the most relevant taxonomic groups due t...

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