Background Covering about 2 Mio. km 2 by the arrival of the first European settlers, the
Cerrado savannas are second in extent only to Amazonian forests amongst the South …

Ecologists have long sought to understand the factors controlling the structure of savanna
vegetation. Using data from 2154 sites in savannas across Africa, Australia, and South …

Tropical forest loss currently contributes 5 to 15% of anthropogenic carbon emissions to the
atmosphere. The large uncertainty in emissions estimates is a consequence of many factors …

We explore the issues relevant to those types of ecosystems containing new combinations of
species that arise through human action, environmental change, and the impacts of the …

The Cerrado is one of the world's biodiversity hotspots. In the last 35 years, more than 50%
of its approximately 2 million km2 has been transformed into pasture and agricultural lands …

RESUMO O Cerrado é um dos 'hotspots' para a conservação da biodiversidade mundial.
Nos últimos 35 anos mais da metade dos seus 2 milhões de km2 originais foram cultivados …

The South Brazilian grasslands occupy some 13.7 million ha and support very high levels of
biodiversity. This paper reviews the current state of ecological knowledge on South Brazilian …

Abstract The eastern-central South American open vegetation biomes occur across an
extensive range of environmental conditions and are organized diagonally including three …

The livestock activity accounts for a large part of the transformations in land cover in the
world, with pasture areas being the main land use in Brazil and the main livelihood of the …

抄録< jats: p> With land planning, socioeconomics and natural systems as foundations, this
book combines urban planning and ecological science in examining urban regions. Writing …