{"id":145759,"date":"2009-03-14T17:59:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T20:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=145759"},"modified":"2014-03-14T18:14:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T21:14:05","slug":"understand-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/understand-past\/","title":{"rendered":"To understand the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_145761\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145761\" alt=\"Thermometer: amphibians guide conservation\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/LabBrasil_frog1.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/LabBrasil_frog1.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/LabBrasil_frog1-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/LabBrasil_frog1-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Ana Carolina Carnaval \/ UC Berkeley<\/span>Thermometer: amphibians guide conservation<span class=\"media-credits\">Ana Carolina Carnaval \/ UC Berkeley<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The southern region of the State of Bahia is one of the most important regions for the preservation of the Mata Atl\u00e2ntica rain forest, according to a new method resorted to by biologist Ana Carolina Carnaval, from the University of California at Berkeley, to define regions able to shelter a wider variety of plants and animals in periods of intense climate variations.\u00a0 In partnership with other researchers from Berkeley, from the Paulista State University\/Unesp in the city of Rio Claro and from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, she superimposed the geographical distribution of three species of amphibians \u2013 the blacksmith tree frog (Hypsiboas faber), the \u201cperereca-verde\u201d (Hypsiboas albomarginatus), and the \u201cperereca-cacarejo\u201d (Hypsiboas semilineatus) \u2013 with ecological models that reconstructed climate conditions that existed 21 thousand and 6 thousand years ago (<i>Science<\/i>). Considering the amphibians as indicators of environmental changes affecting other species as well, the results indicated three regions that had remained unaffected during the referred periods:\u00a0 the smaller region is located in the State of Pernambuco; the medium-sized region is located in the State of S\u00e3o Paulo and the biggest region is located in the south of the State of Bahia. According to the researchers, the conclusions reinforce the urgency to study and preserve the forests in that region, the fauna of which is less known and potentially more diverse than the fauna in the Southeast. In the opinion of co-author C\u00e9lio Haddad, from Unesp, this result does not mean that other regions are less important nor does it eliminate the need to study more species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South of Bahia is important for Atlantic Forest conservation","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[224,231,266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-145759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-ecology","tag-evolution","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145759"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=145759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}