In Brazil, the country with the highest plant species richness in the world, biodiverse
savannas and grasslands–ie, grassy ecosystems, which occupy 27% of the country–have …

OCBIL theory was introduced as a contribution towards understanding the evolution,
ecology and conservation of the biological and cultural diversity of old, climatically buffered …

Abstract Aim The Brazilian campo rupestre is a vegetation associated to ancient
mountaintops in eastern South America, spread mainly over disjunct areas of the Espinhaço …

Abstract Background The Cerrado of central Brazil—the world's largest Neotropical savanna–
is comprised of a mosaic of highly heterogeneous vegetation growing on an extremely …

Few ecologists and evolutionary biologists are familiar with the ecology and evolution of the
campo rupestre, an ancient azonal peinobiome characterized by a fire-prone, nutrient …

Understanding the mechanisms that underlie the generation of beta‐diversity remains a
challenge in ecology. Underground plant adaptations to environmental gradients have …

With extraordinary levels of plant diversity and endemism, the Brazilian campos rupestres
across the Espinhaço Range have a species/area ratio 40 times higher than the lowland …

Amazonia is one of the most diverse biomes worldwide, and, as well as luxuriant forest, it
includes mountain areas which, despite their small surface area, display fascinating …

Native vegetation across the Brazilian Cerrado is highly heterogeneous and biodiverse and
provides important ecosystem services, including carbon and water balance regulation …

Abstract The Caatinga Dominion in Northeastern Brazil represents the largest semiarid
phytogeographical area in South America. It was understudied during the twentieth century …