Mountainous rangelands provide key ecosystem goods and services, particularly for human
benefit. In spite of these benefits, mountain grasslands are undergoing extensive land-cover …

Rocky outcrops are geological features that encompass a wide variety of physical
environments, including escarpments, overhangs, cliffs, tors, boulder-heaps and insular …

Islands are fundamental model systems in ecology, biogeography, and evolutionary biology.
However, terrestrial islands, unlike their aquatic counterparts, have received comparatively …

Mosaics of forest and grassland are frequent in South Brazilian landscapes, both in the
highlands of the Atlantic Forest and southward into the Pampa regions. The grasslands are …

Most tropical forests are threatened by a myriad of human-induced disturbances, associated
with land use changes, altered fire regimes and direct deforestation. The combined effect of …

The climate of the South Brazilian grassland region is influenced by wet tropical air masses
from the Atlantic and the Amazon during spring and summer, and by wet Polar air masses …

Understanding the temporal variability of soil water and carbon is an important prerequisite
for restoring the vegetation in fragile karst ecosystems. A systematic study of soil moisture …

Understanding global warming effects on forest ecosystems will help policy-makers and
forest managers design forest management and biodiversity conservation strategies. We …

Few data have demonstrated why early-season freezing events may increase under a
warmer climate at alpine treelines, which is critical to understand the key limiting factors …

South America harbors the highest plant diversity on Earth. The causes of such
exceptionally high diversity remain poorly understood, despite great attention devoted to the …