Cerrado

The Cerrado (Portuguese pronunciation: [seˈʁadu], [sɛˈʁadu]) is a large ecoregion of tropical savanna in eastern Brazil. Most of it is in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Minas Gerais, and the Federal District. The main areas of the Cerrado biome are the Brazilian highlands (the Planalto). The main habitat types of the Cerrado are made of of forest savanna, wooded savanna, park savanna and gramineous-woody savanna. The Cerrado also has savanna wetlands and gallery forests. It is the second largest of Brazil's major habitat types, after the Amazonian rainforest. The Cerrado takes up 21 percent of the country's land area. Small parts of the Cerrado are in Paraguay and Bolivia.

Cerrado
Vegetation in Pirineus State Park, Goiás
Map of the Cerrado ecoregion made by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Ecology
Realm	Neotropical
Biome	tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
Borders	List Alto Paraná Atlantic forests Araucaria moist forests Bahia interior forests Atlantic dry forests Caatinga Chiquitano dry forests Humid Chaco Maranhão Babaçu forests Mato Grosso tropical dry forests Pantanal
Geography
Area	1,910,037 km2 (737,469 sq mi)
Countries	Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay
Conservation
Conservation status	Vulnerable
Global 200	Cerrado woodlands and savannas
Protected	433,581 km² (23%)

References

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• Oliveira, Paulo S. & Marquis, Robert J. (2002). The Cerrados of Brazil: Ecology and natural history of a neotropical savanna. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-12043-5.
• BRANDÃO, M.; GAVILANES, M. L. (1992). Espécies árboreas padronizadoras do Cerrado mineiro e sua distribuição no Estado. Informe Agropecuário 16 (173): 5–11. (in Portuguese)
• BRANDÃO, M.; CARVALHO, P. G. S.; JESUÉ, G. (1992). Guia Ilustrado de Plantas do Cerrado. (in Portuguese) CEMIG.
• CASTRO, A. A. J. F., MARTINS F. R., TAMASHIRO, J. Y., SHEPHERD G. J. (1999). How rich is the flora of Brazilian Cerrados? Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86 (1): 192–224.
• Coutinho, L.M. (c. 2000). "Cerrado". eco.ib.usp.br (in Portuguese). São Paulo: University of São Paulo. Archived from the original on 2019-05-25.
• RATTER, J.A.; RIBEIRO, J.F. & BRIDGEWATER, S. (1997) The Brazilian Cerrado vegetation and Threats to its Biodiversity. Annals of Botany, 80: pp. 223–230.
• LEITÃO FILHO, H.F. (1992). A flora arbórea dos Cerrados do Estado de São Paulo. Hoehnea 19 (1/2): 151–163. (in Portuguese)
• MENDONÇA, R. C.; FELFILI, J. M.; WALTER, B. M. T.; SILVA, M. C.; REZENDE, FILGUEIRAS, T. S.; NOGUEIRA, P. E. Flora vascular do bioma Cerrado. ("Vascular flora of Cerrado biome") (in Portuguese) IBGE
• Gottsberger, G. & Silberbauer-Gottsberger, I. (2006). Life in the Cerrado. Ulm, DE: Reta Verlag.
  • ISBN 3-00-017928-3 Volume 1
  • ISBN 3-00-017929-1 Volume 2

Further reading

• "Cerrado biodiversity hotspot". BiodiversityHotspots.org. Conservation International. Archived from the original on 2007-03-05.
• "The Chapada dos Veadeiros, Cerrado de Altitude". guiadachapada.com.br. Archived from the original on 2009-01-30.
• "Bioma Cerrado". www.agencia.cnptia.embrapa.br. EMBRAPA (in Portuguese). Brazilian Government. Archived from the original on 2020-06-15. Retrieved 2022-12-30.

Other websites

• "The Cerrado". Nature Conservancy in Brazil. Archived from the original on 2010-07-03.
• "The Biodiversity of the Brazilian Cerrado". Archived from the original on 2007-11-11.
• "Cerrado". Brazilian Government. Archived from the original on 2005-12-24.
• "Cerrado". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
• Caton, Peter (1 June 2011). Guardians of the Cerrado. petercaton.co.uk (photo story). Aoki, Chris (contrib.); do Vale, João (music). Archived from the original on 2011-09-02 – via foto8.com.