The deadly route to collapse and the uncertain fate of Brazilian rupestrian grasslands

GW Fernandes, NPU Barbosa, B Alberton… - Biodiversity and …, 2018 - Springer
Rupestrian grasslands are biodiverse, evolutionary old vegetation complexes that harbor
more than 5000 species of vascular plants and one of the highest levels of plant endemism …

[HTML][HTML] Distribuição da biomassa no cerrado ea sua importância na armazenagem do carbono

JG Roquette - Ciência Florestal, 2018 - SciELO Brasil
RESUMO O Cerrado ocupa cerca de 24% do território brasileiro e é caracterizado pela
presença de um estrato arbóreo e outro arbustivo, formados praticamente por árvores de …

[HTML][HTML] Afforestation of savannas: an impending ecological disaster

GW Fernandes, MS Coelho, RB Machado… - Natureza & …, 2016 - Elsevier
The restoration of terrestrial ecosystems damaged by human activities is an urgent priority
worldwide (Higgs et al., 2014). Reforestation is one of the most direct and efficient methods …

[HTML][HTML] Cerrado physiognomies in Chapada das Mesas National Park (Maranhão, Brazil) revealed by patterns of floristic similarity and relationships in a transition …

TM Ferraz, RVÉC Saraiva, LÉV Leonel… - Anais da Academia …, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
Abstract The Chapada das Mesas National Park is a federal reserve located in the State of
Maranhão, in an ecotonal region of the Brazilian Northeast Cerrado. Aiming to assess the …

[HTML][HTML] Can our current knowledge and practice allow ecological restoration in the Cerrado?

NF Medeiros, GW Fernandes, A RABELLO… - Anais da Academia …, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
Ecological knowledge plays a significant role in ensuring efficient ecological restoration. We
conducted a systematic review to assess if sufficient ecological knowledge has been …

Dams pose a critical threat to rivers in Brazil's Cerrado hotspot

ME Ferreira, SHM Nogueira, EM Latrubesse… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hydropower dams are touted as one of the cleanest forms of energy production, yet they are
associated with severe environmental impacts on both the physical structure and functioning …

[PDF][PDF] Espécies arbóreas de uso múltiplo e sua importância na conservação da biodiversidade nas áreas verdes urbanas de Palmas, Tocantins

RT Pinheiro, DG Marcelino… - … e Meio Ambiente, 2018 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Palmas/TO foi projetada para ser uma capital ecológica, conciliando a ocupação humana
com a preservação de recursos, dentre eles os florestais. Cada uma de suas quadras …

Cerrado conservation is key to the water crisis

CC Pereira, GW Fernandes - Science, 2022 - science.org
It is one thing to hope for an end to China's zero-COVID policy. It is quite another to critique it
without sensitivity to the issues. In his Editorial “Zeroing out on zero-COVID”(3 June, p …

Glomalin-Related Soil Protein Reflects the Heterogeneity of Substrate and Vegetation in the campo rupestre Ecosystem

VM Gomes, IR Assis, RJ Hobbs… - Journal of Soil Science …, 2021 - Springer
We examined whether glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP), produced by arbuscular
mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), and with role in soil quality, structuring, and carbon storage, varies …

Floristic and functional identity of rupestrian grasslands as a subsidy for environmental restoration and policy

GW Fernandes, TO Bahia, HA Almeida… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
The unique vegetation of rupestrian grassland (Campo Rupestre) is finely tuned to the
strong environmental and edaphoclimatic filters that resulted in important adaptations and …