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	Cerrado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cerrado (Portuguese: "closed," or "inaccessible") is a vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil.
		The Cerrado accounts for 22% of Brazil's area, an area the size of Alaska.
		The cerrado is characterised by an enormous range of plant and animal biodiversity, but these natural riches are increasingly threatened by single-crop plantations (monoculture; particularly soybeans), the expansion of agriculture in general, and the burning of the vegetation for charcoal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cerrado (210 words)

	Cerrado
		Cerrado is the regional name given to the Brazilian tropical savanna and is located on the large plateau that occupies the central highlands (see map).
		The Cerrado is the second largest Brazilian biome comprising a total area of approximately 2 Mio km2 (20% of the Brazilian territory), from which 300.000 km2 in 1993 were designated by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve in 1993.
		The Cerrado is a mosaic of vegetation types ranging from open grasslands (campo limpo) through sparse tree cover (cerrado sensu stricto) and dry semi-open canopy (cerradão) to the gallery forests (evergreen closed canopy tall forest), along the edges of watercourses, and to mesophitic forests (semideciduous closed canopy forest), associated to calcareous soils.
	www.brazadv.com /brazil_tours/cerrado.asp (404 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Cerrado (NT0704)
		Cerrado is the largest savanna region in South America and biologically the richest savanna in all the world.
		Biodiversity of cerrado is comprised by at least 10,400 species of vascular plants, 780 of fishes, 180 of reptiles, 113 of amphibians, 837 of birds and 195 of mammals (Cavalcanti 1999).
		(1994) classification of "cerrado savanna" and subsequent linework.
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0704_full.html (1070 words)

	cerrado
		The Cerrado brazenly exposes the rocky surgical sutures of the three ancient proto-continents of the Brazilian shield, as the tortured structures of the Serra da Mesa, the Pireneus Mountains and the Serra Dourada.
		Most Cerrado trees have extensive root systems that tap water from the depths of the soil so that their leaves are evergreen, even during the dry season.
		Cerrado plants are well adapted to droughts and fires with which they have co-evolved for millions of years.
	www.centrocaraivas.com /cerrado.html (964 words)

	Cerrados - the Brazilian savannas
		Cerrado is the regional name given to the Brazilian ecosystem which is similar to savannas.
		The intermediate forms are the dirty field, the "cerrado" field and the "cerrado" sensu stricto, according to a growing density of trees.
		The conservation of the "cerrados" natural resources is represented by different categories of conservation units, according to specific objectives: eight national parks, various state parks and ecological stations, comprising around 6.5% of the total "cerrado" area ("Cerrado: Caracterização, Ocupação e Perspectiva"; Cerrado: Characterisation, Occupation and Perspectives; Dias, 1990).
	www.v-brazil.com /information/geography/cerrado.html (848 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - Brazilian Cerrado - Overview
		The Cerrado region of Brazil, comprising 21 percent of the country, is the most extensive woodland-savanna in South America.
		The most extensive woodland/savanna region in South America, the Cerrado is also the only hotspot that consists largely of savanna, woodland/savanna and dry forest ecosystems.
		The rest of the year is characterized by a pronounced dry season, and many plant species in the hotspot are well adapted to drought conditions as a result.
	www.biodiversityhotspots.org /xp/Hotspots/cerrado (337 words)

	UNEP-WCMC Protected Areas Programme - Cerrado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Cerradão typically occurs interspersed in areas dominated by Cerrado vegetation, particularly in the headwaters of the São Domingo, Fiandeira, Montes Claros, Gameleira, Moquem and Cerrado streams.
		ENP is dominated by grasslands, with 68.1% of its area in the formations of campo limpio, campo sujo, and campo cerrado.
		Cerrados or wooded savannahs cover 25.1%, wetlands of the campo umido, murundus and veredas types cover 4.9%, forests occupy 1.24% and the remaining 0.7% are roads and park infrastrucure.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/wh/cerrado.html (3154 words)

	The Environmental Literacy Council - Cerrado
		The Cerrado is considered a hotspot primarily because of the richness of its flora.
		Vertebrate endemism is relatively low, though diversity is high and the Cerrado has a number of "flagship species" such as the maned wolf, the giant armadillo and the giant anteater.
		Development of the Cerrado for agriculture required not only road-building and mechanization but also clearing of natural vegetation, reduction of acidity with the use of lime, intensive use of fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides, as well as the development of new crop strains, many of which have come from government labs.
	www.enviroliteracy.org /article.php/495.html (922 words)

	The Nature Conservancy in Brazil - Cerrado
		It has over 10,000 species of plants, of which 45% are exclusive to the Cerrado, and it stretches across nearly 500 million acres of Brazil - an area nearly three times the size of Texas.
		The Cerrado also feeds three of the major water basins in South America: the Amazon, Paraguay and São Francisco Rivers.
		The Cerrado is one of the most unprotected savannas in the world with less than 2% of its region protected in national parks and conservation areas.
	www.nature.org /wherewework/southamerica/brazil/work/art5082.html (344 words)

	RBGE: The Biodiversity of the Brazilian Cerrado
		The cerrado is of enormous ecological importance, containing over 5000 species of higher plants, many of which only occur in Central Brazil.
		In addition to agricultural development, much of the charcoal used in the Brazilian steel industry is derived from native cerrado trees, putting further pressure on this vegetation.
		The biogeographical patterns of the cerrado flora are being analysed to provide information for the establishment of protected areas.
	www.rbge.org.uk /rbge/web/science/research/biodiversity/cerrado.jsp (292 words)

	Brazilian cerrado papers presented at Conservation Biology conference
		In Brazil, African grasses introduced as forage, successfully established in the Cerrado due to its environmental similarity with African savannas and are now competing and displacing native grass species.
		It is characterized as a savanna ecosystem, presenting high habitat diversity, with the highest herbaceous plant diversity among the world’s savannas and an explosive rate of habitat loss due to conversion for agriculture and ranching.
		For the Cerrado terrestrial ecoregion we used the map of landscape units, and for the freshwater ecoregion we defined and mapped a classification of freshwater ecological systems.
	news.mongabay.com /2005/0721-cbc_cerrado.html (1226 words)

	Neotropical Grasslands: Habitat, Plants and Animals
		Lesser extensions are found in eastern Bolivia on the Pre-Cambrian Shield formation (400-800 meters), near sea level in northeast Bolivia, and in the Colombian Llanos mainly south of the Meta river.
		They are also found in the Venezuelan Llanos north of the Orinoco river, as a part of the Boa Vista savannas in northern Amazonia, and the Cerrado of Amapá on the northern lip of the mouth of the Amazon River in many lesser areas.
		In contrast, another 800,000 square kilometers of well-drained savanna with micro-topography impractical to cultivation, and another 450,000 square kilometers in poorly drained savanna are unsuitable altogether.
	www.conservegrassland.org /grasslands.htm (1357 words)

	Brazil 2004 Cerrado Coffee Competition, Coffee Tour
		Most of these were samples of coffee that use Cerrado in them, and a lot were from Japan.
		You'll see a lot more about the Cerrado coffee cultivation technique later, and since it was late in the day when we went to Chapadao, the trip was all too brief.
		Cerrado coffee is grown on a high, flat plateau.
	www.sweetmarias.com /Brazil2004/Brazil2004.html (966 words)

	Conservation of the Maned Wolf: fruitful relationships in a changing environment
		Eucalyptus plantations are established by mechanically uprooting and burning the cerrado; the fazenda therefore comprises a mosaic of plots in various stages of development.
		Our results were consistent with the known ecology of the plant as a fast-growing invasive species on disturbed ground (Oliveira-Filho and Oliveira, 1988): the distribution pattern in the latter area was the direct result of undamaged underground rhizomes giving rise to a number of new plants in the vicinity where old plants had once existed.
		The recent predominance of hooved livestock in cerrado regions may indeed aid in seed dispersal: casual observations indicate a preponderance of lobeira plants in cow pastures and corrals; cowboys have even been reported to produce the plant to fatten swine on the fruit (Correa, 1962).
	www.canids.org /PUBLICAT/CNDNEWS2/manedwf2.htm (1748 words)

	3C.7 Fire in Cerrado and Pantanal—Ecology and Management (2003 - 2FireEco) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Portuguese term Cerrado means closed and designates a vast phytogeographic province dominated by an unambiguous savanna like vegetation, once it can only be found in Central Brazil and some fragments in the Southeast, Northeast and in the Amazonia.
		The Cerrado holds about 160,000 species of animals and plants, with at least 8.000 species of plants many of them are endemic.
		The Pantanal fauna is mostly derived from the Cerrado, with Amazonian influences.
	ams.confex.com /ams/FIRE2003/techprogram/paper_72389.htm (537 words)

	Sweet Maria's Coffee Cupping Reviews: Archive A - F
		Cerrado is really the best area of Brasil to do the dry process due to the dramatic shift from rainy season to dry season.
		The reason is this even ripening and rapid shift into the dry weather pattern, and this is because Cerrado is not under the same Atlantic ocean influenced weather pattern as the rest of Brasilian coffee growing areas.
		Here we have the reviews for the Cerrado Auction Lots I bought after the competition in November 2004 (This is '05 new crop coffee harvested in late '04 per the Brazil crop cycle).
	www.sweetmarias.com /coffee.reviewarchive.a-f.html (7067 words)

	CPD: South America overview, centres of plant diversity and endemism, Interior dry and mesic forests
		Apparently its differentiation from the cerrado is based on soils rather than climate, as indicated by the presence of outliers of Chiquitania-type tall deciduous forest scattered through the Brazilian cerrado.
		The cerrado typically has 230-250 vascular plant species (occasionally as many as 300-350 species) in 0.1-ha samples (Eiten 1984), making this one of the most species-rich vegetations on Earth at this scale (Gentry and Dodson 1987), being exceeded only by some wet tropical forests.
		Huge areas of the cerrado have been devastated in the last decade by cattle-ranching and mechanized agriculture on a large scale.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa-v.htm (1780 words)

	Jardim Botanico
		Still with an arid climate is the Cerrado, located in the central plateau of the country.
		Recent estimates have concluded that one third of the species found in Brazil are from the Cerrado.
		It is the opposite of the Cerrado in terms of water.
	www.thewildones.org /Scientists/jardim.html (782 words)

	Hudson Institute calls Amazon savanna biome a wasteland
		Avery is correct in his assertion that converting cerrado, a prairie-like ecosystem, for agriculture is less damaging ecologically than the clearing of tropical rainforests, but few biologists would agree with his assertion that cerrado is wasteland.
		Scientists who have worked in the region say that the cerrado is the world's most biologically rich savanna, home to more than 10,000 species of plants--4400 of which are endemic, 935 species of birds, and almost 300 mammals.
		While the Amazon is being converted for such purposes, the cerrado, a vast area of savanna-like grasslands covering more than 20% of the country’s surface area, is increasingly under threat as farmers from the United States and Europe are setting their sights on the biome’s sizeable agricultural potential.
	news.mongabay.com /2006/0423-hudson.html (806 words)

	Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks - UNESCO World Heritage Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		For millennia, these sites have served as refuge for several species during periods of climate change and will be vital for maintaining the biodiversity of the Cerrado region during future climate fluctuations.
		Criterion (ii): CPA has played a key role for millenia in maintaining the biodiversity of the Cerrado Ecoregion.
		This role as a species refuge is ongoing as Earth enters another period of climate change.
	whc.unesco.org /en/list/1035 (288 words)

	Photo Gallery of Western Bahia Agriculture
		Cerrado vegetation knocked down by chaining, Western Bahia, March 2002.
		Cerrado land opened in rainy season of 2001, Western Bahia, June 2001.
		The far western edge of the Bahian cerrado and border with the state of Tocatins (cerrado is the high flat plain), December 2002.
	www.agbrazil.com /photo_gallery.htm (478 words)

	Conservation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Brazil
		The "Cerrado" is the second largest ecological dominion of Brazil, where a continuous herbaceous stratum is joined to an arboreal stratum, with variable density of woody species.
		The cerrados cover a surface area of approximately 25% of Brazilian territory and around 220 species from cerrado are reported as used in the traditional medicine (Vieira and Martins 1998).
		There are now five forest genetic reserves in Brazil: one in the Amazon Tropical Rainforest, state of Para; one in the Caatinga, state of Minas Gerais; two in the Cerrado in the Federal District, and one in the Meridional Forest (Subtropical) in the state of Santa Catarina.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/proceedings1999/v4-152.html (3565 words)

	Iron Brew Coffee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This region is called The Cerrado, pronounced “Seyhaado”.
		We know the region, know the farmers and pay them direct which allows them to pass more money on to their workers.
		Our finest imported Cerrado coffee beans are roasted to perfection guaranteeing the perfect balance of flavor and caffeine.
	www.ironbrewcoffee.com (455 words)

	Brazil frontier farm land for sale from US$250/ha (US$100/acre)
		Millions of hectares of Brazilian cerrado land can be bought today for the equivalent of $100 per acre or less.
		They are in daily contact with land markets in the frontier states of Bahia, Piauí, Maranhão, and Tocatins.
		They can locate virgin and developed land investments ranging in size from 1,000 to 50,000+ ha in all of the frontier cerrado states.
	www.agbrazil.com /frontier_land_for_sale.htm (123 words)

	Properties for sale in Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Town House for sale in Cerrado de Calderon ESMTH10017
		Town House for sale in Cerrado de Calderon ESMTH10359
		Town House for sale in Cerrado de Calderon ESMTH10429
	www.esmoz.com /Properties-for-sale-in-spain-40.htm (189 words)

	Cerrado/ Abierto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Cerrado is much much worse than I supposed
		Yes the Spanish word that I hate the most is cerrado (cerrado)
		Everything is abierto, which is the Spanish word for "open", and this is "cerrado", which is the Spanish word for "closed".
	www.members.tripod.com /Tiny_Dancer/cerrado.html (568 words)

	Stem Changing Verbs E-IE
		The impersonal forms do not refer to a specific person.
		Compound Infinitive - Infinitivo Compuesto; To have closed - haber cerrado
		The imperative does not have a first person (I, we form).
	www.mcwdn.org /Spanish/SpanStemE-IE.html (292 words)

	Extension 437: Cerrado
		Keep in touch with what I'm up to on my technical blog, Tangled Cables.
		Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Cerrado:
		It's amazing what one can find when googling.
	fishwise.typepad.com /cm/2006/03/cerrado.html (105 words)

	mindenpictures.com - photo captions
		HYACINTH MACAW (Anodorhynchus hyacinthus) PORTRAIT, CERRADO HABITAT, BRAZIL
		BRAZILIAN LESSER LONG-NOSED ARMADILLO (Dasypus septemcinctus), CERRADO HABITAT, PIAUI ST., BRAZIL
		HYACINTH MACAW (Anodorhynchus hyacinthus) IN CERRADO HABITAT EATING PALM (Attalea funifera) NUTS ON THE GROUND, BRAZIL
	www.mindenpictures.com /photocaptions18.html (8863 words)

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