This study aimed to test two hypotheses:(i) on the Brazilian semiarid territory, the climate has
greater weight as a driver of vegetation than the soil and;(ii) the arboreal Caatinga is a …

The unique vegetation of rupestrian grassland (Campo Rupestre) is finely tuned to the
strong environmental and edaphoclimatic filters that resulted in important adaptations and …

OCBIL theory aims to develop hypotheses that explain the evolutionary ecology of biota on
old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes (OCBILs). The table mountain OCBILs of the …

Environmental heterogeneity can influence the formation of different vegetation types, even
at small spatial scales. However, little is known about the factors that drive communities at …

In the tropical region, savannas and seasonal forests, both highly diverse biomes, occur side
by side, under the same climate. If so, that mosaic cannot be explained solely by climatic …

We characterized taxonomic and functional differences between two vegetation
physiognomies in the Brazilian Chaco, namely chaco woodland (CW) and chaco forest (CF) …

Abstract The Guayana Highlands (GH) represents a major center of Neotropical plant
diversity and endemism. Considering the lack of information about the ecology of plant …

We describe the chromosome numbers and genome sizes of species of the cryptanthoid
complex of Bromeliaceae in a phylogenetic framework and their relationship with habitat …

Abstract The Cerrado (Brazilian Savanna) biome suffers intense degradation due to several
anthropic activities and its recovery is extremely important for the restoration of …

Triatoma costalimai is a little-known triatomine-bug species whose role as a vector of
Chagas disease remains poorly understood. To address this gap, we conducted a …