Despite growing recognition of the conservation values of grassy biomes, our understanding
of how to maintain and restore biodiverse tropical grasslands (including savannas and open …

The South Brazilian grasslands occupy some 13.7 million ha and support very high levels of
biodiversity. This paper reviews the current state of ecological knowledge on South Brazilian …

Forests and grassy vegetation (savannas and grasslands) are alternative ecosystem states
in many tropical landscapes. Relative to forests the grassy ecosystems are poorly known …

Humans have been changing the natural fire regimes in most Brazilian vegetation types for
over 4000 years. Natural lightning fires can easily happen in savannas and grasslands, but …

The results of the first consecutive 12 months of the NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer (MODIS) global burned area product are presented. Total annual and …

A recent controversy concerns whether plant traits that are assumed to be adaptations to fire
originally evolved in response to selective factors other than fire. We contribute to this …

Tropical savanna and forest are recognized to represent alternate stable states, primarily
determined by feedbacks with fire. Vegetation–fire dynamics in each of these vegetation …

Tropical moist forests and savannas are iconic biomes. There is, however, a third principal
biome in the lowland tropics that is less well known: tropical dry forest. Discussions on …

The Neotropics contain globally significant areas of seasonally dry forests and savannas.
Seasonally dry tropical forests are found in scattered areas, with the most species-rich in …

Fire has been a natural force modulating the vegetation of the Brazilian Cerrado since long
before the first humans arrived in this region about 12 thousand years BP. Cerrado plants …