Terrestrial carbon dynamics in an era of increasing wildfire

T Hudiburg, J Mathias, K Bartowitz, DM Berardi… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
In an increasingly flammable world, wildfire is altering the terrestrial carbon balance.
However, the degree to which novel wildfire regimes disrupt biological function remains …

How does changing environment influence plant seed movements as populations of dispersal vectors decline?

JO Hernandez, M Naeem, W Zaman - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Plants differ widely in their ability to find tolerable climatic ranges through seed dispersal,
depending on their life-history traits and habitat characteristics. Following the Preferred …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating ecological risk, ecosystem health, and ecosystem services for assessing regional ecological security and its driving factors: insights from a large …

Q Zhu, Y Cai - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Watershed ecological security (ES), which is fundamental to regional sustainable
development, consists of ecological risk (ER), ecosystem health (EH), and ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of landscape pattern and response of ecosystem service value in international wetland cities: A case study of Nanchang City

L Zhu, K Zhu, X Zeng - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Based on the natural resource endowment perspective, this paper examines how landscape
patterns change over time and how ecosystem service value (ESV) responds to these …

Rarity patterns and the conservation status of tree species in South American savannas

EA Maciel, FR Martins - Flora, 2021 - Elsevier
The interest in quantifying rare species has been increasing, but less attention has been
paid to analysing their conservation status. Here, we used the Rabinowitz method based on …

Effect of drainage ditches on diversity, structure and dynamics vegetation in campos de murundus (mound fields)

FAG Guilherme, AF Júnior, LF de Souza… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Campos de murundus (CM) is a savanna vegetation type of Cerrado which remain flooded
in the rainy season. It is considered protected areas in the state of Goiás, Brazil, but are …

Wildfires Jeopardise Habitats of Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus), a Flagship Species for the Conservation of the Brazilian Pantanal

BH dos Santos Ferreira, M da Rosa Oliveira… - Wetlands, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Changes in fire regimes can increase extinction risk of species with distribution
restricted to fire-prone habitats. The extent of the area burnt in the Brazilian Pantanal …

Drivers of ecological and evolutionary disruptions in the Seed Dispersal Process: Research trends and Biases

I Donoso, EC Fricke, S Hervias-Parejo… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As the sole opportunity for most plants to move, seed dispersal influences the biodiversity
and functioning of plant communities. Global change drivers have the potential to disrupt …

[HTML][HTML] Disturbances and environmental gradients influence the dynamics of individuals and basal area in the Cerrado complex

FAG Guilherme, AF Júnior, FC Pereira, GE Silva… - Trees, Forests and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Cerrado complex is covered by twelve physiognomies characterized by a gradient of
grassland, savanna and forest formations. We assessed the recruitment (RI) and mortality …

Species density per grid cell no longer predicts the local abundance of woody plants

EA Maciel, FAG Guilherme - Ecological Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
Species abundance calculated from the number of individuals per hectare in
phytosociological surveys is a key parameter to measure plant population size. The species …