Variations in the South Atlantic Convergence Zone over the mid-to-late Holocene inferred from speleothem δ18O in central Brazil

ML Wong, X Wang, EM Latrubesse, S He… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Most precipitation records within the South American Summer Monsoon (SASM) domain
bear a trend following the Southern Hemisphere summer insolation (SHSI). However, a …

Tree species diversity and composition of miombo woodlands in south‐central Angola: a chronosequence of forest recovery after shifting cultivation

FMP Gonçalves, R Revermann… - … Journal of Forestry …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The study was carried out in the Cusseque area of the Municipality of Chitembo in south‐
central Angola. Our objectives were to assess the floristic diversity, the species composition …

Protecting the Cerrado: where should we direct efforts for the conservation of bat-plant interactions?

HFM Oliveira, NF Camargo, Y Gager… - Biodiversity and …, 2019 - Springer
Cerrado is a biodiversity hotspot composed of a vegetation mosaic landscape ranging from
grasslands to forests. It holds a high endemicity of plants and vertebrate species suffering …

Distinct taxonomic composition of soil bacterial community across a native gradient of Cerrado-Ecotone-Caatinga

ASF Araujo, LM de Souza Oliveira, VMM Melo… - Applied Soil …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biodiversity underlies ecosystem functioning, and the soil microbiome plays a crucial role in
these functional processes. A better understanding of the soil microbiome and the …

Structural and compositional differences in gallery and spiny forests of Southern Madagascar: Implications for conservation of lemur and tree species

A Mondragón-Botero, B Riera, H Rasamimanana… - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Madagascar's unique dry forests, particularly gallery and spiny forests, face severe threats
and are significantly understudied, leaving only a fraction of the original extent intact. Thus …

Heterogeneidade ambiental e estrutura da vegetação arbustivo-arbórea em três áreas de Cerrado sentido restrito no sudoeste goiano

GE Silva, FAG Guilherme, SES Carneiro… - Ciência …, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
A variação fitofisionômica do Cerrado brasileiro é intensa e estudos fitossociológicos
podem fornecer subsídios sobre quais fatores são responsáveis por essa heterogeneidade …

[HTML][HTML] Drivers of floristic variation in biogeographic transitions: insights from the ecotone between the largest biogeographic domains of South America

LAS Souza, PV Eisenlohr - Acta Botanica Brasilica, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
Ecological transitions usually represent vulnerable ecosystems and high biodiversity.
Investigating their drivers is important from both biogeographic and conservationist …

Assessment of tree species distribution and diversity in the major urban green spaces of Nairobi city, Kenya

DO Nyambane, JB Njoroge… - Journal of Horticulture …, 2016 - academicjournals.org
Plant composition of urban green spaces is an important component of urban ecosystem as
it influences the provision of many environmental and social services that contribute to the …

Influence of soil properties on woody vegetation structure, diversity and seasonality in Neotropical savannas

AA Veríssimo, DV Silvério, AC Abadia… - Austral …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how savanna soil properties influence vegetation diversity and function is a
major challenge in ecological studies. We investigated the effects of soil properties on …

Relationships between soils and plant community composition and structure in a Neotropical savanna mosaic

E Lenza, AC Abadia, A Veríssimo… - Australian Journal of …, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
Context How woody flora richness and composition in different vegetation communities in a
Neotropical savanna are explained by chemical and physical soil properties? Objective …