List of works - Valerio Pillar

A framework for metacommunity analysis of phylogenetic structure.

scientific article published on 24 March 2010

A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities.

scientific article published on 28 September 2015

Análise crítica da Lei de Proteção da Vegetação Nativa (2012), que substituiu o antigo Código Florestal: atualizações e ações em curso

scientific article published on 29 March 2016

Applied Vegetation Scienceenters its 20th year

Applied Vegetation Sciencein 2016: the leading journal promoting the application of vegetation science

Applied vegetation science addresses emerging global issues

Are removal experiments effective tools for assessing plant community resistance and recovery from invasion?

article

Assessing spatial and environmental drivers of phylogenetic structure in BrazilianAraucariaforests

article

Between- and within-species trait variability and the assembly of sapling communities in forest patches

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

Burning effects on detritivory and litter decay inCamposgrasslands

scientific article published in 2014

Causal effects of latitude, disturbance and dispersal limitation on richness in a recovering temperate, subtropical and tropical forest

Challenges in the conservation and management of legal reserve areas in Brazilian grassland and savanna ecosystems in the face of global climate change

scientific article published in 2024

Classification of South Brazilian grasslands: Implications for conservation

scientific article published on 17 November 2018

Climate influences the response of community functional traits to local conditions in bromeliad invertebrate communities

scientific article published on 26 November 2020

Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

scientific article published on 23 December 2021

Collaboration networks and hot topics in the Journal of Vegetation Science

scientific article published in 2022

Competitive effects and responses of the invasive grass Eragrostis plana in Río de la Plata grasslands

scientific article published in 2019

Conservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based research

scientific article

Conservation in Brazil needs to include non-forest ecosystems

article

Constraints on the functional trait space of aquatic invertebrates in bromeliads

scientific article published in 2018

Correction to: Ecological restoration as a strategy for mitigating and adapting to climate change: lessons and challenges from Brazil

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

Desafios na conservação e no manejo de áreas de reserva legal em ecossistemas campestres e savânicos brasileiros frente às mudanças climáticas globais

scientific article published in 2024

Discriminating trait-convergence and trait-divergence assembly patterns in ecological community gradients

Disentangling by additive partitioning the effects of invasive species on the functional structure of communities

scientific article published on 05 March 2021

Dismantling Brazil's science threatens global biodiversity heritage

article

Dissecting phylogenetic fuzzy weighting: theory and application in metacommunity phylogenetics

Divergence in a Neotropical forest during 33 years of succession following clear-cutting

Does disturbance affect bud bank size and belowground structures diversity in Brazilian subtropical grasslands?

article

Ecological literacy and beyond: Problem-based learning for future professionals.

scientific article

Ecological restoration as a strategy for mitigating and adapting to climate change: lessons and challenges from Brazil

scientific article published on 27 April 2019

Effects of defoliation frequencies on above- and belowground biodiversity and ecosystem processes in subtropical grasslands of southern Brazil

scientific article published on 19 November 2021

Effects of initial disturbances and grazing regime on native grassland invasion by Eragrostis plana in southern Brazil

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Exploring seed to seed effects for understanding invasive species success

scientific article published on 06 September 2017

Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

scientific article published on 8 January 2024

Feedbacks between vegetation and disturbance processes promote long-term persistence of forest–grassland mosaics in south Brazil

article

Functional and taxonomic alpha and beta diversity responses to burning grasslands in southern Brazil

scientific article published in 2021

Functional redundancy and stability in plant communities

article

Functional redundancy in a clipping experiment on grassland plant communities

article

Geographical variation in the trait‐based assembly patterns of multitrophic invertebrate communities

scientific article published in 2022

Global gradients in intraspecific variation in vegetative and floral traits are partially associated with climate and species richness

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

scientific article published in September 2022

Global relationships in tree functional traits

scientific article published on 08 June 2022

Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities

article

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

article

Grassland degradation and restoration: a conceptual framework of stages and thresholds illustrated by southern Brazilian grasslands

scientific article published on 21 September 2015

Half of the world’s tree biodiversity is unprotected and is increasingly threatened by human activities

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure

scientific article published on 16 June 2022

How to publish a good journal in plant community ecology?

article

Human–environment interactions in mountain rainforests: archaeobotanical evidence from central Sulawesi, Indonesia

article

Individual-based trait analyses reveal assembly patterns in tree sapling communities

article

Intraspecific trait variation of grassland species in response to grazing depends on resource acquisition strategy

scientific article published on 18 April 2022

Invasive plant removal: assessing community impact and recovery from invasion

article

Journal of Vegetation Sciencein 2015: journal growth, celebrations and awards

Landowner perceptions of the value of natural forest and natural grassland in a mosaic ecosystem in southern Brazil

article

Landscape structure and climate affect plant invasion in subtropical grasslands

article

Late Quaternary vegetation, biodiversity and fire dynamics on the southern Brazilian highland and their implication for conservation and management of modern Araucaria forest and grassland ecosystems

scientific article (publication date: 28 February 2007)

Late-Holocene fire history in a forest-grassland mosaic in southern Brasil: Implications for conservation

Linking biodiversity to ecosystems: A task for plant community ecologists

article

Local biodiversity erosion in south Brazilian grasslands under moderate levels of landscape habitat loss

scientific article

Long-term ecological research in southern Brazil grasslands: Effects of grazing exclusion and deferred grazing on plant and arthropod communities

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

Long-term investigations and experimental manipulations: Useful perspectives for applied vegetation studies

Long‐term effects of grazing intensity on strategies and spatial components of functional diversity in subtropical grassland

scientific article published on 19 September 2018

Macroecological analyses reveal historical factors influencing seed dispersal strategies in BrazilianAraucariaforests

article

Mapping plant community ecology

article

New insights into vegetation, climate and fire history of southern Brazil revealed by a 40,000 year environmental record from the State Park Serra do Tabuleiro

article

New perspectives in ecology and conservation

academic journal

No heat-stimulated germination found in herbaceous species from burned subtropical grassland

article

Nurse rocks influence forest expansion over native grassland in southern Brazil

article

On the overlap between effect and response plant functional types linked to grazing

article

Paleoclimate and current climate collectively shape the phylogenetic and functional diversity of trees worldwide

preprint

Phylogenetic composition and structure of tree communities shed light on historical processes influencing tropical rainforest diversity ⬇️

article

Phylogenetic patterns and phenotypic profiles of the species of plants and mammals farmed for food

scholarly article by Rubén Milla et al published November 2018 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Phylogenetic uncertainty and the inference of patterns in community ecology and comparative studies

scientific article published on 19 June 2021

Plant Functional Types of Woody Species Related to Fire Disturbance in Forest–Grassland Ecotones

article

Plant communities: their conservation assessment and surveys across continents and in the tropics

article

Plant dispersal strategies and the colonization of Araucaria forest patches in a grassland-forest mosaic

article

Plant dispersal strategies and the colonization of Araucaria forest patches in a grassland-forest mosaic

Plant ecology. Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

scientific article published on July 2015

Plant functional groups associate with distinct arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Plant species richness and functional traits affect community stability after a flood event

scientific article

Plant trait distribution and the spatial reorganization of tree assemblages in a fragmented tropical forest landscape

article

Por que o Brasil precisa de suas Reservas Legais

scientific article published on 11 October 2019

Processes related to habitat selection, diversity and niche similarity in assemblages of non-volant small mammals at grassland–forest ecotones

Progress in vegetation science: Trends over the past three decades and new horizons

Properties of a randomization test for multifactor comparisons of groups

Quaternary climate change explains global patterns of tree beta-diversity

preprint

Reference values and drivers of diversity for South Brazilian grassland plant communities

scientific article published on 20 April 2022

Reflecting on two and a half decades of restoration ecology in Applied Vegetation Science (1998–2023)

scientific article published in 2024

Response to Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness"

scientific article published in Science

Restoration Ecology in Brazil Time to Step Out of the Forest

article

Revealing the functional traits linked to hidden environmental factors in community assembly

scientific article published on 05 December 2020

SYNCSA--R tool for analysis of metacommunities based on functional traits and phylogeny of the community components

scientific article

Sample Size Determination for Chlorophyll Meter Readings on Maize Hybrids with a Broad Range of Canopy Types

Short-term changes caused by fire and mowing in BrazilianCamposgrasslands with different long-term fire histories

article

Silver Jubilee of the journal and complexity of global change

Spatial models and plant traits for conservation and restoration

article

Spatial patterns and relations with site factors in a campos grassland under grazing.

scientific article

Species niches, not traits, determine abundance and occupancy patterns: A multi‐site synthesis

scientific article

Spider trait assembly patterns and resilience under fire-induced vegetation change in South Brazilian grasslands

scientific article

TRY - a global database of plant traits

scientific article (publication date: 21 June 2011)

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Testing for the influence of niche and neutral factors on sapling community assembly beneath isolated woody plants in grasslands

article

The benefits of publishing in society‐owned scientific journals

scientific article published in 2023

The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The interplay between local and landscape scales on the density of pond‐dwelling anurans in subtropical grasslands

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

The role of invasive pine on changes of plant composition and functional traits in a coastal dune ecosystem

scientific article published on 23 June 2014

The southern Brazilian grassland biome: soil carbon stocks, fluxes of greenhouse gases and some options for mitigation ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2012

Towards an applied metaecology

scientific article published on 21 September 2018

Towards more reproducibility in vegetation research

scientific article published in January 2024

Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally

scientific article published on 22 February 2023

Transfer of scientific knowledge to practitioners: Do we need a reform of the journal policy?

Using phylogenetic information to impute missing functional trait values in ecological databases

scientific article published on 12 May 2021

Vegetation science during hectic times

scientific article published in 2021

What saplings can tell us about forest expansion over natural grasslands

Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

article

Why Brazil needs its Legal Reserves

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

Woody species patterns at forest–grassland boundaries in southern Brazil

article

sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

article

sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

List of works by Valerio Pillar

A framework for metacommunity analysis of phylogenetic structure.

A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities.

Análise crítica da Lei de Proteção da Vegetação Nativa (2012), que substituiu o antigo Código Florestal: atualizações e ações em curso

Applied Vegetation Scienceenters its 20th year

Applied Vegetation Sciencein 2016: the leading journal promoting the application of vegetation science

Applied vegetation science addresses emerging global issues

Are removal experiments effective tools for assessing plant community resistance and recovery from invasion?

Assessing spatial and environmental drivers of phylogenetic structure in BrazilianAraucariaforests

Between- and within-species trait variability and the assembly of sapling communities in forest patches

Burning effects on detritivory and litter decay inCamposgrasslands

Causal effects of latitude, disturbance and dispersal limitation on richness in a recovering temperate, subtropical and tropical forest

Challenges in the conservation and management of legal reserve areas in Brazilian grassland and savanna ecosystems in the face of global climate change

Classification of South Brazilian grasslands: Implications for conservation

Climate influences the response of community functional traits to local conditions in bromeliad invertebrate communities

Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

Collaboration networks and hot topics in the <i>Journal of Vegetation Science</i>

Competitive effects and responses of the invasive grass <i>Eragrostis plana</i> in Río de la Plata grasslands

Conservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based research

Conservation in Brazil needs to include non-forest ecosystems

Constraints on the functional trait space of aquatic invertebrates in bromeliads

Correction to: Ecological restoration as a strategy for mitigating and adapting to climate change: lessons and challenges from Brazil

Desafios na conservação e no manejo de áreas de reserva legal em ecossistemas campestres e savânicos brasileiros frente às mudanças climáticas globais

Discriminating trait-convergence and trait-divergence assembly patterns in ecological community gradients

Disentangling by additive partitioning the effects of invasive species on the functional structure of communities

Dismantling Brazil's science threatens global biodiversity heritage

Dissecting phylogenetic fuzzy weighting: theory and application in metacommunity phylogenetics

Divergence in a Neotropical forest during 33 years of succession following clear-cutting

Does disturbance affect bud bank size and belowground structures diversity in Brazilian subtropical grasslands?

Ecological literacy and beyond: Problem-based learning for future professionals.

Ecological restoration as a strategy for mitigating and adapting to climate change: lessons and challenges from Brazil

Effects of defoliation frequencies on above- and belowground biodiversity and ecosystem processes in subtropical grasslands of southern Brazil

Effects of initial disturbances and grazing regime on native grassland invasion by Eragrostis plana in southern Brazil

Exploring seed to seed effects for understanding invasive species success

Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

Feedbacks between vegetation and disturbance processes promote long-term persistence of forest–grassland mosaics in south Brazil

Functional and taxonomic alpha and beta diversity responses to burning grasslands in southern Brazil

Functional redundancy and stability in plant communities

Functional redundancy in a clipping experiment on grassland plant communities

Geographical variation in the trait‐based assembly patterns of multitrophic invertebrate communities

Global gradients in intraspecific variation in vegetative and floral traits are partially associated with climate and species richness

Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

Global relationships in tree functional traits

Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

Grassland degradation and restoration: a conceptual framework of stages and thresholds illustrated by southern Brazilian grasslands

Half of the world’s tree biodiversity is unprotected and is increasingly threatened by human activities

High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure

How to publish a good journal in plant community ecology?

Human–environment interactions in mountain rainforests: archaeobotanical evidence from central Sulawesi, Indonesia

Individual-based trait analyses reveal assembly patterns in tree sapling communities

Intraspecific trait variation of grassland species in response to grazing depends on resource acquisition strategy

Invasive plant removal: assessing community impact and recovery from invasion

Journal of Vegetation Sciencein 2015: journal growth, celebrations and awards

Landowner perceptions of the value of natural forest and natural grassland in a mosaic ecosystem in southern Brazil

Landscape structure and climate affect plant invasion in subtropical grasslands

Late Quaternary vegetation, biodiversity and fire dynamics on the southern Brazilian highland and their implication for conservation and management of modern Araucaria forest and grassland ecosystems

Late-Holocene fire history in a forest-grassland mosaic in southern Brasil: Implications for conservation

Linking biodiversity to ecosystems: A task for plant community ecologists

Local biodiversity erosion in south Brazilian grasslands under moderate levels of landscape habitat loss

Long-term ecological research in southern Brazil grasslands: Effects of grazing exclusion and deferred grazing on plant and arthropod communities

Long-term investigations and experimental manipulations: Useful perspectives for applied vegetation studies

Long‐term effects of grazing intensity on strategies and spatial components of functional diversity in subtropical grassland

Macroecological analyses reveal historical factors influencing seed dispersal strategies in BrazilianAraucariaforests

Mapping plant community ecology

New insights into vegetation, climate and fire history of southern Brazil revealed by a 40,000 year environmental record from the State Park Serra do Tabuleiro

New perspectives in ecology and conservation

No heat-stimulated germination found in herbaceous species from burned subtropical grassland

Nurse rocks influence forest expansion over native grassland in southern Brazil

On the overlap between effect and response plant functional types linked to grazing

Paleoclimate and current climate collectively shape the phylogenetic and functional diversity of trees worldwide

Phylogenetic composition and structure of tree communities shed light on historical processes influencing tropical rainforest diversity ⬇️

Phylogenetic patterns and phenotypic profiles of the species of plants and mammals farmed for food

Phylogenetic uncertainty and the inference of patterns in community ecology and comparative studies

Plant Functional Types of Woody Species Related to Fire Disturbance in Forest–Grassland Ecotones

Plant communities: their conservation assessment and surveys across continents and in the tropics

Plant dispersal strategies and the colonization of Araucaria forest patches in a grassland-forest mosaic

Plant dispersal strategies and the colonization of Araucaria forest patches in a grassland-forest mosaic

Plant ecology. Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

Plant functional groups associate with distinct arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities