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 …

Increasing biodiversity is an important issue in more secure and sustainable agriculture.
Diversified systems are more resilient to climate change, environmental stresses and …

Grasslands are the most threatened and least protected biome. Yet, no study has been
conducted to identify the last remaining continuous grasslands on Earth. Here, we used …

Woody plants are encroaching across terrestrial ecosystems globally, and this has dramatic
effects on how these systems function and the livelihoods of producers who rely on the land …

Indigenous people play an integral role in shaping natural environments, and the disruption
to Indigenous land management practices has profound effects on the biosphere. Here, we …

The expansion of globalized industrial societies is causing global warming, ecosystem
degradation, and species and language extinctions worldwide. Mainstream conservation …

Bovine mastitis is a prototypic emerging and reemerging bacterial disease that results in cut-
by-cut torture to animals, public health and the global economy. Pathogenic microbes …

Grassland ecosystems are evolutionarily linked to disturbances such as grazing and fire.
These disturbances define grassland plant communities and habitat heterogeneity, which …

Ecological restoration is an important activity to ensure biodiversity conservation and the
provision of ecosystem services. It has been a growing field in the last two decades in Brazil …

Abstract Brazil's Atlantic Forest biome is one of the world's biodiversity hotspots, whose
heterogeneous ecosystems are threatened by habitat loss and climate change …