In Brazil, the country with the highest plant species richness in the world, biodiverse
savannas and grasslands–ie, grassy ecosystems, which occupy 27% of the country–have …

This book explores the geography, ecology, and antiquity of'open ecosystems', which
include grasslands, savannas, and shrublands. They occur in climates that can support …

Fire is a fundamental ecological factor in savannas because it affects vegetation dynamics
and ecosystem functioning. However, the effects of fire on below‐ground compartments …

Farmland expansion in the Brazilian Cerrado, considered one of the largest agricultural
frontiers in the world, has the potential to alter water fluxes on different spatial scales …

Native vegetation across the Brazilian Cerrado is highly heterogeneous and biodiverse and
provides important ecosystem services, including carbon and water balance regulation …

Belowground bud bank regeneration is a successful strategy for plants in fire-prone
communities. It depends on the number and location of dormant and viable buds stored on …

Investigating the timing of key phenological events across environments with variable
seasonality is crucial to understand the drivers of ecosystem dynamics. Leaf production in …

The inland wetlands can perform the storage of water on the surface and the recharge of
aquifers. Even a small wetland can work as a local point of water infiltration, influencing and …

The Cerrado biome comprises a mosaic of different vegetation types such as grasslands,
savannas and forests. We studied soil properties and the herbaceous-shrub layer vegetation …

The impacts of soil properties and fire regime on Neotropical savannas are well-known, but
the importance of hydrological regime for plant species assembly has received less …