Tropical lowland South America boasts a diversity of vegetation cover as impressive, and
often as bewildering, as its diversity of plant species. In this essay, we attempt to describe …

From a total woody flora of ca. 1000 species, a suite of 121 species forms an oligarchy
dominating the cerrado biome. This mirrors patterns of dominance described in western …

Patches of natural vegetation remaining in landscapes occupied by man are continuously
under threat due to the edge effects and also to land use types around these remnants. The …

An analysis was made of the floristic composition of 98 areas of cerrado and Amazonian
savanna, encompassing most of the area of such vegetation in Brazil. A total of 534 species …

Surveys over a period of 38 years have shown a rapid successional change in the
remaining areas of cerrado vegetation in western São Paulo State. Cerradão (the dense …

An attempt is made to summarize what is known about the richness of the total terrestrial
angiosperm flora of the" cerrados"(as a complex of formations) in Brazil, based on published …

Floristic and structural comparisons and a numerical classification were performed to identify
the priority areas for conservation of genetic resources in central Brazil. The main type of …

An interdisciplinary text on the world's savannas, covering the geography, ecology,
economics and politics of savanna regions. Savannas are a distinct vegetation type …

An analysis was made of the floristic composition of 26 cerrado areas in Brazil,
encompassing most of the latitudinal and much of the longitudinal extension of this …

Changes in floristic composition and structure in a cerrado sensu stricto area were studied
over a 9-y period. A sample of 19 (20-m× 50-m) permanent plots was assessed at 3-y …