| Abstrakt: |
The Pale-throated Serra-Finch lives in the unique vegetation types known as campos rupestres, campos gerais and campos de altitude, which are found on the mountaintops of Eastern Brazil. In this paper, we present the first records of disjunct populations of the Pale-throated Serra-Finch in the Rio Doce valley, municipality of Alvarenga, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The Atlantic Forest formerly covered this region, with open grasslands floristically related to the campos rupestres vegetation found at higher elevations. We highlight the importance of conducting botanical and faunal inventories on these mountaintops, which are currently not granted legal protection and might harbor other threatened and/or undescribed endemic species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
