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List of works by Mercedes Bustamante

A protocol for expedite and effective retrieval of land conversion information in savanna environments

Abundance of gall-inducing insect species in sclerophyllous savanna: understanding the importance of soil fertility using an experimental approach

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Achieving mitigation and adaptation to climate change through sustainable agroforestry practices in Africa

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Agricultural expansion dominates climate changes in southeastern Amazonia: the overlooked non-GHG forcing

Alien and endangered plants in the Brazilian Cerrado exhibit contrasting relationships with vegetation biomass and N : P stoichiometry.

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Assessing deforestation related carbon emission in the Brazilian Savanna based on moderate resolution imagery

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Cerrado deforestation threatens regional climate and water availability for agriculture and ecosystems

scientific article published in 2022

Characterization of Soil Bacterial Assemblies in Brazilian Savanna-Like Vegetation Reveals Acidobacteria Dominance

scientific article published on May 9, 2012

Co-benefits, trade-offs, barriers and policies for greenhouse gas mitigation in the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector

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Competition Alters Responses of Juvenile Woody Plants and Grasses to Nitrogen Addition in Brazilian Savanna (Cerrado)

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Dissolved rainfall inputs and streamwater outputs in an undisturbed watershed on highly weathered soils in the Brazilian cerrado

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Diversity of shrub tree layer, leaf litter decomposition and N release in a Brazilian Cerrado under N, P and N plus P additions

scientific article published on November 13, 2010

ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE LARGE-SCALE BIOSPHERE– ATMOSPHERE EXPERIMENT IN AMAZONIA: EARLY RESULTS

scientific article published in 2004

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

scientific article published on 27 April 2019

Effect of ultraviolet and green radiation and temperature on flight activity and foraging of three tropical stingless bees

scientific article published in 2024

Emissions from cattle farming in Brazil

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Environment and Development. Brazil's environmental leadership at risk

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Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis.

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Global change pressures on soils from land use and management

scientific article published on 24 August 2015

Global patterns of foliar nitrogen isotopes and their relationships with climate, mycorrhizal fungi, foliar nutrient concentrations, and nitrogen availability.

scientific article published on 26 June 2009

How much land-based greenhouse gas mitigation can be achieved without compromising food security and environmental goals?

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Land Use Change, Air Pollution and Climate Change—Vegetation Response in Latin America

scholarly article by Alessandra R. Kozovits & Mercedes Bustamante published 2013 in Developments in environmental science

Latin America's Nitrogen Challenge

scientific article published in Science

Leaf functional traits of Neotropical savanna trees in relation to seasonal water deficit

Long-term liming promotes drastic changes in the composition of the microbial community in a tropical savanna soil

scientific article published on 29 August 2020

Mapping Three Decades of Changes in the Brazilian Savanna Native Vegetation Using Landsat Data Processed in the Google Earth Engine Platform

scientific article published on 13 March 2020

Mapping woody plant community turnover with space‐borne hyperspectral data – a case study in the Cerrado

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Molecular phylogenetic diversity of bacteria associated with soil of the savanna-like Cerrado vegetation.

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Nutrient availability constrains the hydraulic architecture and water relations of savannah trees

scientific article published on 01 December 2006

Nutrient enrichment changes water transport structures of savanna woody plants

scientific article published on 16 February 2021

Partitioning of soil water among tree species in a Brazilian Cerrado ecosystem

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Regional Variations in Biomass Distribution in Brazilian Savanna Woodland

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Results from LBA and a vision for future Amazonian research

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Richness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota) along a vegetation gradient of Brazilian Cerrado: responses to seasonality, soil types, and plant communities

scientific article published in 2022

Scaling up equivalent water thickness in savanna environments: From local to biome scale, via ground, Hyperion, and MODIS data

Seasonal effects in a lake sediment archaeal community of the Brazilian Savanna

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Soil Acidobacterial 16S rRNA Gene Sequences Reveal Subgroup Level Differences between Savanna-Like Cerrado and Atlantic Forest Brazilian Biomes.

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Spatial variation in vegetation structure coupled to plant available water determined by two-dimensional soil resistivity profiling in a Brazilian savanna

scientific article published on 4 May 2007

Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis: fire effects on invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic pasture grasses.

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Time to integrate global climate change and biodiversity science‐policy agendas

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Tropical dry woodland loss occurs disproportionately in areas of highest conservation value

scientific article published in 2023

Variações sazonais nas concentrações de pigmentos e nutrientes em folhas de espécies de cerrado com diferentes estratégias fenológicas