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Past human‐induced ecological legacies as a driver of modern Amazonian resilience
People and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 5, Page 1415-1429, October 2023., 2023 Abstract People have modified landscapes throughout the Holocene (the last c. 11,700 years) by modifying soils, burning forests, cultivating and domesticating plants, and directly and indirectly enriched and depleted plant abundances. These activities also took place in Amazonia, which is the largest contiguous piece of rainforest in the world, and for Crystal N. H. McMichael, Mark B. Bush, Juan C. Jiménez, William D. Gosling +3 morewiley +1 more sourceModelling dry biomass dynamics in the Cerrado Biome
Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2019
The volume of dry biomass is a key predictor of fire propagation in the Cerrado biome. Traditionally, biomass dynamics is measured directly onsite through field experiment. However, onsite measurements are constrained by costly logistics needed to cover Ubirajara Oliveira Pimentel, William Leles, Edward Elias Júnior', Letícia Gomes Silva, Mercedes Bustamante, Heloísa Miranda, Britaldo Soares Filho +6 moredoaj +3 more sourcesMultiple facets of biodiversity are threatened by mining‐induced land‐use change in the Brazilian Amazon
Diversity and Distributions, Volume 29, Issue 9, Page 1190-1204, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Aim
Mining is increasingly pressuring areas of critical importance for biodiversity conservation, such as the Brazilian Amazon. Biodiversity data are limited in the tropics, restricting the scope for risks to be appropriately estimated before mineral licensing decisions are made.Thomas J. Lloyd, Ubirajara Oliveira, Britaldo S. Soares‐Filho, Richard A. Fuller, Nathalie Butt, John S. Ascher, João Paulo Peixoto Pena Barbosa, João Aguiar Nogueira Batista, Antonio D. Brescovit, Claudio J. B. de Carvalho, Paulo De Marco, Viviane Gianluppi Ferro, Felipe Sá Fortes Leite, Peter Löwenberg‐Neto, Adriano Pereira Paglia, Daniella Teixeira de Rezende, Adalberto J. Santos, Daniel Paiva Silva, Marcelo Ferreira de Vasconcelos, Laura J. Sonter +19 morewiley +1 more sourceGeographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates
Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 49-69, January 2023., 2023 Abstract Aim
To investigate the geographic patterns and ecological correlates in the geographic distribution of the most common tree dispersal modes in Amazonia (endozoochory, synzoochory, anemochory and hydrochory). We examined if the proportional abundance of these dispersal modes could be explained by the availability of dispersal agents (disperser ...Diego F. Correa, Pablo R. Stevenson, Maria Natalia Umaña, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Florian Wittmann, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Carolina V. Castilho, Oliver L. Phillips, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim, William E. Magnusson, Daniel Sabatier, Jean‐François Molino, Mariana Victória Irume, Maria Pires Martins, José Renan da Silva Guimarães, Olaf S. Bánki, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, José Ferreira Ramos, Bruno Garcia Luize, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo, Percy Núñez Vargas, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, John W. Terborgh, Katia Regina Casula, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Juan Carlos Montero, Jochen Schöngart, Dairon Cárdenas López, Flávia R. C. Costa, Adriano Costa Quaresma, Charles Eugene Zartman, Timothy J. Killeen, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon‐Junior, Rodolfo Vasquez, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Layon O. Demarchi, Ted R. Feldpausch, Rafael L. Assis, Christopher Baraloto, Julien Engel, Pascal Petronelli, Hernán Castellanos, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Ana Andrade, José Luís Camargo, Susan G. W. Laurance, William F. Laurance, Lorena Maniguaje Rincón, Juliana Schietti, Thaiane R. Sousa, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, Maria Aparecida Lopes, José Leonardo Lima Magalhães, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Gerardo A. Aymard C., Roel Brienen, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Yuri Oliveira Feitosa, Joost F. Duivenvoorden, Hugo F. Mogollón, Alejandro Araujo‐Murakami, Leandro Valle Ferreira, José Rafael Lozada, James A. Comiskey, José Julio de Toledo, Gabriel Damasco, Nállarett Dávila, Roosevelt García‐Villacorta, Aline Lopes, Alberto Vicentini, Freddie C. Draper, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Alfonso Alonso, Francisco Dallmeier, Vitor H. F. Gomes, David Neill, Daniel P. P. de Aguiar, Luzmila Arroyo, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Kenneth J. Feeley, Rogerio Gribel, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, Jos Barlow, Erika Berenguer, Joice Ferreira, Paul V. A. Fine, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Eliana M. Jimenez, Juan Carlos Licona, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra, Carlos Cerón, Émile Fonty, Terry W. Henkel, John Ethan Householder, Paul Maas, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Raquel Thomas, Flávia Machado Durgante, Tim R. Baker, Doug Daly, Isau Huamantupa‐Chuquimaco, William Milliken, Toby Pennington, Marcos Ríos Paredes, Pardo Molina, Alfredo Fuentes, Bente Klitgaard, José Luis Marcelo Peña, Carlos A. Peres, Miles R. Silman, J. Sebastián Tello, Wegliane Campelo, Jerome Chave, Anthony Di Fiore, Renato Richard Hilário, Juan Fernando Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas‐Torres, Tinde R. van Andel, Patricio von Hildebrand, Luciana de Oliveira Pereira, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo, Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza, Ricardo Zárate Gómez, Therany Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Bruce Hoffman, André Braga Junqueira, Yadvinder Malhi, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto, Adriana Prieto, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Agustín Rudas, Ademir R. Ruschel, Natalino Silva, César I. A. Vela, Vincent Antoine Vos, Stanford Zent, Egleé L. Zent, Janaína Costa Noronha, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Angela Cano, Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Bernardo Monteiro Flores, David Galbraith, Milena Holmgren, Michelle Kalamandeen, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Hirma Ramirez‐Angulo, Maira Rocha, Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller, Rodrigo Sierra, Milton Tirado, Geertje van der Heijden, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Corine Vriesendorp, Maihyra Marina Pombo, Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui, Cláudia Baider, Henrik Balslev, Sasha Cárdenas, Luisa Fernanda Casas, William Farfan‐Rios, Cid Ferreira, Reynaldo Linares‐Palomino, Casimiro Mendoza, Italo Mesones, Armando Torres‐Lezama, Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo, Daniel Villarroel, Roderick Zagt, Germaine Alexander Parada, Miguel N. Alexiades, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Karina Garcia‐Cabrera, Lionel Hernandez, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Daniela Pauletto, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Hans ter Steege +207 morewiley +1 more sourceFire propagation model in the cerrado biome
Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2019
To date, there are no model available for fire propagation in the Cerrado. Especially, for helping fire management and prevention, models need to run under near-real time conditions at a local scale.Ubirajara Oliveira, William Leles, Edward Elias Júnior, Letícia Gomes Silva, Mercedes Bustamante, Heloísa Miranda, Britaldo Soares Filho +6 moredoaj +3 more sources