Societal Impact Statement Madagascar is famous for its unique forests and their fauna. Most
of the island is covered by flammable grassy ecosystems long considered to be of human …

The desertification process directly influences agricultural production and the maintenance
of terrestrial life. Despite being an important agricultural centre, Brazil's semi-arid region is …

In times of unprecedented climate change, ecological restoration efforts have a strong focus
on forests for the purpose of carbon sequestration. Grasslands, in contrast, remain relatively …

In the last decade, advances in soil bacterial ecology have contributed to increasing
agricultural production. Brazil is the world leading agriculture producer and leading soil …

In many parts of southern Brazil, mosaics of grassland and forests are found, but little is
known how this vegetation pattern has been formed. Are these mosaics partly natural or …

Ecological restoration is an important activity to ensure biodiversity conservation and the
provision of ecosystem services. It has been a growing field in the last two decades in Brazil …

Mosaics of forest and grassland are frequent in South Brazilian landscapes, both in the
highlands of the Atlantic Forest and southward into the Pampa regions. The grasslands are …

Campos Sulinos grasslands have a long evolutionary history intertwined with fire and
grazing: they are disturbance-dependent ecosystems. Disturbance, in this context, refers to …

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven language models (chatbots) progressively accelerate the
collection and translation of environmental evidence that could be used to inform planetary …

The Brazilian Pampa biome covers half of Rio Grande do Sul state, in the extreme south of
Brazil, creating an ecotone zone with the Atlantic Forest and bordering Pampa's territory …