The future of tropical forests depends on their ability to resist and recover from multiple disturbances. Here, we evaluated how edge effects, experimental fires, extreme droughts, and blowdowns reshaped forest structure, composition, and functional traits over two...
This article contributes to the public administration and environmental governance literature by proposing the notion of ‘institutional subversion’ as a way of describing how the strategies adopted by local actors may change and even go against the initial aims of...
Following the influential Brundtland Report, environmental preservation, social welfare and economic growth ceased to be seen as opposite objectives, but rather, were considered as pillars of what came to be known as ‘sustainable development’ (WCED, 1987). In order...
This study examined whether high nutrient concentrations associated with leaf-cutting ant nests influence plant growth and plant water relations in Amazon rain forests. Three nests of Atta cephalotes were selected along with 31 Amaioua guianensis and Protium sp....
Considerably more is at stake in the ongoing battle in Brazil's Congress and government over the country's core forest protection legislation, the Forest Code, than President Dilma Rousseff's political fortunes or Brazil's international reputation. Full...
This data set provides a time series of calcium, magnesium, and potassium extracted from soil samples from a laboratory column extraction study conducted in 2002. Soils used in the columns were originally collected in 1998 in Fazenda Vitoria, a cattle ranch 6 km...
Este estudo objetivou avaliar a eficácia de tratamentos pré-germinativos em diferentes substratos para superar a dormência de sementes de Ormosia paraensis Ducke. Foram avaliados quatro tratamentos prégerminativos: 1) escarificação mecânica, 2) escarificação...