Problems with the application of cladistics to forest fragmentation studies.

摘要

This paper presents the problems with the application of standard parsimony methods to the analysis of species communities in forest fragments using two case studies. The first example deals with the distribution of frog species at the experimentally fragmented landscape of the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project site in central Amazonia. The second example deals with birds sampled in fragments of the Atlantic forest, Eastern Brazil..