Brazil has experienced unprecedented wildfires in the last decade. Images of immense
burnt areas or dead animals that failed to escape the 2020 wildfires have shocked the world …

The cerrado is the most extensive savanna ecosystem of South America and a biodiversity
hotspot, harboring a diverse flora (> 7,000 species) with high levels of endemism. More than …

Globally, treeline ecotones vary from abrupt lines to extended zones of increasingly small,
stunted and/or dispersed trees. These spatial patterns contain information about the …

Aim Rising atmospheric CO 2 and climate warming have induced changes in tree growth
and intrinsic water‐use efficiency (iWUE) world‐wide, but the long‐term impact of such …

Abstract The southern Atlantic Forest comprises tropical dense, seasonal, and mixed forests,
occurring south of the Doce River in S and SE Brazil, NE Argentina, and SE Paraguay …

Many forest ecosystems have experienced recent declines in productivity; however, in some
alpine regions, tree growth and forest expansion are increasing at marked rates …

Aims The effects of fire ensure that large areas of the seasonal tropics are maintained as
savannas. The advance of forests into these areas depends on shifts in species composition …

Forest-grassland mosaic ecosystems can exhibit alternative stables states, whereby under
the same environmental conditions, the ecosystem could equally well reside either in one …

Endangered forest–grassland mosaics interspersed with expanding agriculture and
silviculture occur across many parts of the world, including the southern Brazilian highlands …

Delineating the controls on hydroclimate throughout Brazil is essential to assessing potential
impact of global climate change on water resources and biogeography. An increasing …