Savannas after afforestation: Assessment of herbaceous community responses to wildfire versus native tree planting

From ashes to flowers: a savanna sedge initiates flowers 24 h after fire

(2019) Alessandra Fidelis et al.   ECOLOGY

Expanding the Soy Moratorium to Brazil’s Cerrado

(2019) Aline C. Soterroni et al.   Science Advances

Do we need intervention after pine tree removal? The use of different management techniques to enhance Cerrado natural regeneration

(2019) Vagner Zanzarini et al.   Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation

Impact of invasive slash pine (Pinus elliottii) on groundcover vegetation at home and abroad

(2018) J. Stephen Brewer et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

How can we advance the knowledge on the behavior and effects of fire in the Cerrado biome?

(2018) Letícia Gomes et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Fire management in the Brazilian savanna: First steps and the way forward

(2018) Isabel B. Schmidt et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Rare frost events reinforce tropical savanna-forest boundaries

(2018) William A. Hoffmann et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Impact of invasive grasses on Cerrado under natural regeneration

(2018) Gabriella Damasceno et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Resilience and restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and grassy woodlands

(2018) Elise Buisson et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Biodiversity responses to land-use and restoration in a global biodiversity hotspot: Ant communities in Brazilian Cerrado

(2018) Keila Caroline Dalle Laste et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Cerrado ecoregions: A spatial framework to assess and prioritize Brazilian savanna environmental diversity for conservation

(2018) Edson E. Sano et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Abandoned pastures cannot spontaneously recover the attributes of old-growth savannas

(2017) Mário G. B. Cava et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Restoring Brazilian savanna ground layer vegetation by topsoil and hay transfer

(2017) Natashi A. Lima Pilon et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Using fire to promote biodiversity

(2017) L. T. Kelly et al.   SCIENCE

The biodiversity cost of carbon sequestration in tropical savanna

(2017) Rodolfo C. R. Abreu et al.   Science Advances

Moment of truth for the Cerrado hotspot

(2017) Bernardo B. N. Strassburg et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Fire and Drought: Soluble Carbohydrate Storage and Survival Mechanisms in Herbaceous Plants from the Cerrado

(2016) Moemy Gomes de Moraes et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Afforestation of savannas: an impending ecological disaster

(2016) Geraldo Wilson Fernandes et al.   Natureza & Conservacao

Reforestation or conservation? The attributes of old growth grasslands in South Africa

(2016) Nicholas P. Zaloumis et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The underestimated biodiversity of tropical grassy biomes

(2016) Brett P. Murphy et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Clarifying the confusion: old-growth savannahs and tropical ecosystem degradation

(2016) Joseph W. Veldman   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ancient grasslands at risk

(2016) W. J. Bond   SCIENCE

Where Tree Planting and Forest Expansion are Bad for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

(2015) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Conservation in Brazil needs to include non-forest ecosystems

(2015) Gerhard E. Overbeck et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Increasing weight of evidence that thinning and burning treatments help restore understory plant communities in ponderosa pine forests

(2015) Robert T. Strahan et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Toward an old-growth concept for grasslands, savannas, and woodlands

(2015) Joseph W Veldman et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The need for a consistent fire policy for Cerrado conservation

(2015) Giselda Durigan et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

High carbon and biodiversity costs from converting Africa’s wet savannahs to cropland

(2015) Timothy D. Searchinger et al.   Nature Climate Change

Does disturbance affect bud bank size and belowground structures diversity in Brazilian subtropical grasslands?

(2014) Alessandra Fidelis et al.   FLORA

Revisiting the pyrodiversity-biodiversity hypothesis: long-term fire regimes and the structure of ant communities in a Neotropical savanna hotspot

(2014) Jonas Maravalhas et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Fire frequency, agricultural history and the multivariate control of pine savanna understorey plant diversity

(2014) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Köppen's climate classification map for Brazil

(2014) Clayton Alcarde Alvares et al.   METEOROLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT

The dynamics of the soil seed bank after a fire event in a woody savanna in central Brazil

(2014) Luciana Aparecida Zago de Andrade et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions

(2014) P. M. Brando et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tropical grassy biomes: misunderstood, neglected, and under threat

(2014) Catherine L. Parr et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Fire drives the reproductive responses of herbaceous plants in a Neotropical swamp

(2013) Glein M. Araújo et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Pervasive transition of the Brazilian land-use system

(2013) David M. Lapola et al.   Nature Climate Change

Impacts of Prescribed Fire, Glyphosate, and Seeding on Cogongrass, Species Richness, and Species Diversity in Longleaf Pine

(2013) Stephen F. Enloe et al.   Invasive Plant Science and Management

Does long-term fire exclusion in an Australian tropical savanna result in a biome shift? A test using the reintroduction of fire

(2012) KENNETH SCOTT et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Effects of fire regimes on herbaceous biomass and nutrient dynamics in the Brazilian savanna

(2012) Immaculada Oliveras et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Grass-dominated vegetation, not species-diverse natural savanna, replaces degraded tropical forests on the southern edge of the Amazon Basin

(2011) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Overstory and understory relationships in longleaf pine plantations 14 years after thinning and woody control

(2011) Timothy B. Harrington   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

When is a ‘forest’ a savanna, and why does it matter?

(2011) Jayashree Ratnam et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Fire-stimulated flowering among resprouters and geophytes in Australia and South Africa

(2011) Byron B. Lamont et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Changes in the plant community of a Brazilian grassland savannah after 22 years of invasion byPinus elliottiiEngelm

(2011) Rodolfo C.R. de Abreu et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Grassland restoration after afforestation: No direction home?

(2010) NICHOLAS P. ZALOUMIS et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Beyond the forest edge: Ecology, diversity and conservation of the grassy biomes

(2010) William J. Bond et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Land cover mapping of the tropical savanna region in Brazil

(2009) Edson E. Sano et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Recovery of Native Grasslands after Removing Invasive Pines

(2009) Yannina A. Cuevas et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY