Every year more than 150,000 tons of resin used in a myriad of industrial applications are produced by Brazilian plantations of Engelm. (slash pine), which are also used for timber. A pine tree can be tapped for resin over a period of several years.
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February 2019
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-vascular plants (including hemiepiphytes), and lichen epiphyte species occurrence and abundance; (2) describe the epiphyte distribution in the Atlantic Forest, in order to indicate future sampling efforts.
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