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Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research
Carvalho, Raquel L.; Resende, Angelica F.; Barlow, Jos; França, Filipe M.; Moura, Mario R.; Maciel, Rafaella; Alves-Martins, Fernanda; Shutt, JackBiodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain underst...
Thirty years of clear-cutting maintain diversity and functional composition of ...
Giles, André L. [UNESP]; Flores, Bernardo M.; Rezende, Andréia Alves [UNESP]; Weiser, Veridiana de Lara [UNESP]; Cavassan, Osmar [UNESP]Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T11:00:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-08-15; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Humans have changed vegetation dynamics in Neotropical savannas by suppressing fires, allowing trees and shrubs to expand into ancient savanna landscapes in a process known as woody encroachment. This woody encroachment drives the loss of bi...
Help restore Brazil’s governance of globally important ecosystem services
Levis, Carolina; Flores, Bernardo M.; Mazzochini, Guilherme G.; Manhães, Adriana P.; Campos-Silva, Joaõ Vitor; Amorim, Pablo Borges; Peroni, Nivaldo
Reply to Schöngart et al.: Forest resilience variation across Amazonian floodpl...
Flores, Bernardo M.; Holmgreen, Milena; Xu, Chi; Nes, Egbert H Van; Jakovac, Catarina; Mesquita, Rita de Cássia Guimarães; Scheffer, Marten
How people domesticated Amazonian forests
Levis, Carolina; Flores, Bernardo M.; Moreira, Priscila A.; Luize, Bruno G. [UNESP]; Alves, Rubana P.; Franco-Moraes, Juliano; Lins, JulianaMade available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T16:51:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2018-01-17; For millennia, Amazonian peoples have managed forest resources, modifying the natural environment in subtle and persistent ways. Legacies of past human occupation are striking near archaeological sites, yet we still lack a clear picture of how human management practices resulted in the domestication of ...