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Fogo no Cerrado em 2024: retrato de janeiro a setembro

O bioma Cerrado é de extrema importância ecológica e econômica, desempenhando um papel crucial na regulação hídrica (Sawyer et al. 2017), alimentando as principais bacias hidrográficas do país, além de ser a savana tropical com maior biodiversidade do mundo (Myers...

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A social-ecological approach to identify and quantify biodiversity tipping points in South America's seasonal dry ecosystems

A social-ecological approach to identify and quantify biodiversity tipping points in South America's seasonal dry ecosystems

Tropical dry forests and savannas harbour unique biodiversity and provide critical ES, yet they are under severe pressure globally. We need to improve our understanding of how and when this pressure provokes tipping points in biodiversity and the associated...

Who owns Brazilian lands?

Who owns Brazilian lands?

Land tenure in many parts of Brazil remains uncertain and controversial. These problems have recently been exacerbated by changes in the legal framework regulating protected areas and the land market. A particular challenge facing attempts to improve land tenure...

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Prolonged tropical forest degradation due to compounding disturbances: Implications for CO2 and H2O fluxes

Prolonged tropical forest degradation due to compounding disturbances: Implications for CO2 and H2O fluxes

  Drought, fire, and windstorms can interact to degrade tropical forests and the ecosystem services they provide, but how these forests recover after catastrophic disturbance events remains relatively unknown. Here, we analyze multi‐year measurements of...