Brazil has experienced unprecedented wildfires in the last decade. Images of immense
burnt areas or dead animals that failed to escape the 2020 wildfires have shocked the world …

The Neolithic Revolution narrative associates early-mid Holocene domestications with the
development of agriculture that fueled the rise of late Holocene civilizations. This narrative …

Wetlands are ecosystems at the interface between terrestrial and aquatic environments,
subject to flooding by shallow waters or with temporarily to permanently waterlogged soils …

Fire can be extremely harmful to sensitive ecosystems such as rainforests while maintaining
the structure and composition of savanna environments. That is because historically …

Covering almost a quarter of Brazil, the Cerrado is the world's most biologically rich tropical
savanna. Fire is an integral part of the Cerrado but current land use and agricultural …

Pela primeira vez no Brasil, queimadas prescritas de baixa intensidade no começo da
estação seca foram implementadas em Unidades de Conservação (UC) do Cerrado como …

Plant communities and species composing rupestrian grassland complexes within Brazilian
savannas show varied responses to fire, and display similarities with other fire-prone …

The tropical South American savannas have been occupied and manipulated by humans
since the late Pleistocene. Ecologists consider that soils, hydrology, and seasonal …

Fire is one of the main modeling agents of savanna ecosystems, affecting their distribution,
physiognomy and species diversity. Changes in the natural fire regime on savannas cause …

The veredas (palm swamps) of the cerrado biome are legally protected as Áreas de
Preservação Permanente (Permanent Preservation Areas), and the use of fire in these …