Besides its extreme climate conditions, the Caatinga (a type of tropical seasonal forest)
hosts an impressive faunal and floristic biodiversity. In the last 50 years there has been a …

The Caatinga is a xerophyte, deciduous plant formation that occupies more than 50% of the
northeastern region of Brazil (approximately 800.000 km2). This formation presents a high …

O desmatamento elevado no Bioma Caatinga vem gerando processos de desertificação em
diversas áreas, alterando diretamente a biota, o microclima e os solos, sendo fundamental o …

The semiarid tropical zone covers 20% of Brazil and is dominated by caatinga, a thorny
deciduous savanna well adapted to seasonal water shortage and periodic drought years …

Germination processes and the establishment of plants in arid and semi-arid ecosystems
require a series of strategies related to the production and dispersal of diaspores–a term …

Este trabalho objetivou descrever as proporções de síndromes de dispersão em três
remanescentes de vegetação nativa com distintos totais pluviométricos e número de meses …

The interaction between microhabitat and inter-annual variation in precipitation has an
important role on the dynamics of the seed bank and can play a crucial role in survival and …

The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) is amply distributed in the Brazilian Northeast,
but little is known of its ecology in the semi‐arid Caatinga scrublands. The present study …

RESUMO A pressão exercida sobre as florestas tropicais devido à fragmentação de
paisagens naturais tem causado alterações no padrão de substituição das espécies …

This study aimed to evaluate variations in the seed bank within a 3-year temporal series in
order to answer the following questions: 1) Does the seed bank's species richness and seed …