Historical knowledge, richness and relative representativeness of the avifauna of the largest native urban rainforest in the world

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2017

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Tonetti, Vinicius R.
Rego, Marco A.
Luca, André C. De
Develey, Pedro F.
Schunck, Fábio
Silveira, Luís F.

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Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia

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ABSTRACT Stretching for more than 10,000 ha in the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil, Serra da Cantareira comprises the largest native urban rainforest in the World, harboring a rich and diverse Atlantic Forest avifauna. Despite its closeness to major urban areas, few bird surveys have been conducted there. In this article we present an updated compilation of all bird species recorded for Serra da Cantareira, including personal records from the authors. A total of 326 species have been recorded for Serra da Cantareira since 1901; of these, nine have not been sighted there for the last two decades. The number of bird species endemic to the Atlantic Forest is high (80), and seven of its species are globally threatened. According to multivariate analyses the species diversity at Serra da Cantareira is similar to other regions of the Atlantic Forest, such as Carlos Botelho and Intervales state parks, where the vegetation is also ombrophilous dense forest. We discuss local changes in the avifaunal composition over the last decades and suggest the incorporation of large forest remnants to the Cantareira State Park to mitigate the impact of the northern section of Rodoanel Mário Covas, a highway (SP-21) that will soon be operational and will negatively impact the biodiversity of Serra da Cantareira.

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Atlantic Forest, bird conservation, hierarchical cluster analysis, principal coordinate analysis, Serra da Cantareira

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Zoologia (Curitiba). Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia, v. 34, p. -, 2017.

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