Silveira, Fernando Augusto de Oliveira eNegreiros, DanielBarbosa, Newton Pimentel de UlhôaBuisson, EliseCarmo, Flávio Fonseca doCarstensen, Daniel WisbechConceição, Abel AugustoCornelissen, Tatiana GarabiniAndrade, Livia EchternachtFernandes, Geraldo Wilson AfonsoGarcia, Queila de SouzaGuerra, Tadeu José de AbreuJacobi, Cláudia MariaLemos Filho, José Pires deStradic, Soizig LeMorellato, Leonor Patricia CerdeiraNeves, Frederico de SiqueiraOliveira, Rafael SilvaSchaefer, Carlos Ernesto Gonçalves ReynaudViana, Pedro LageLambers, Hans2017-07-272017-07-272016SILVEIRA, F. A. O. et al. Ecology and evolution of plant diversity in the endangered campo rupestre: a neglected conservation priority. Plant and Soil, v. 403, n. 1-2, p. 129-152, jun. 2016. Disponível em: <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11104-015-2637-8>. Acesso em: 27 jul. 2017.1573-5036http://www.repositorio.ufop.br/handle/123456789/8348Background Botanists, ecologists and evolutionary biologists are familiar with the astonishing species richness and endemism of the fynbos of the Cape Floristic Region and the ancient and unique flora of the kwongkan of south-western Australia. These regions represent old climatically-buffered infertile landscapes (OCBILs) that are the basis of a general hypothesis to explain their richness and endemism. However, few ecologists are familiar with the campo rupestre of central and eastern Brazil, an extremely old mountaintop ecosystem that is both a museum of ancient lineages and a cradle of continuing diversification of endemic lineages.en-USrestritoArtigo publicado em periodicohttps://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11104-015-2637-8.pdfhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2637-8