Mangroves function as a natural coastline protection for erosion and inundation, providing
important environmental services. Due to their geographical distribution at the continent …

South American savannas are mesic, and present the highest species diversity among world
savannas. This chapter describes savannas in South America, with emphasis on the …

The Late Quaternary climate in Amazonia is an issue still open to debate, with hypotheses
varying from alternate dry and wet episodes to stable climate with undisturbed rainforest. We …

The present work integrates sedimentary facies, 14C dating, δ13C, δ15N, and C/N with
geologic and geomorphologic data available from literature. The aim was to characterize the …

As savanas da América do Sul representam entre 8 e 10% da cobertura das savanas
globais. De forma dispersa, elas cobrem pouco mais de 2, 29 milhões de quilômetros …

Linking the distribution of plant species to geology has generally been biased by the over‐
simplification of landscape evolution and the lack of understanding of complex geological …

In recent decades there has been increasing interest, from scientists of many disciplines, in
the origins and dynamics of tropical savanna–forest boundaries. These boundaries are …

Abstract Greater Amazonia—the Amazon Basin, which stretches from the Andes to the
Atlantic—is roughly the size of the continental United States. It contains the largest planetary …

The main goal of this study was to reconstruct the Late Pleistocene-Holocene floristic
composition in an area of the northern Brazilian Amazonia, comparing the results with other …

Despite the indisputable significance of identification of modern analogs for Paleoecology
research, relatively few studies attempted to integrate modern and fossil samples on …