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A 7000‐year history of changing plant trait composition in an Amazonian landscape; the role of humans and climate

article

A User Manual to Measure Gas Diffusion Kinetics in Plants: Pneumatron Construction, Operation, and Data Analysis

scientific article published on 07 June 2021

A research agenda for the restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas

scientific article

Abandoned pastures and restored savannas have distinct patterns of plant–soil feedback and nutrient cycling compared with native Brazilian savannas

scientific article published on 17 May 2022

Age-dependent leaf physiology and consequences for crown-scale carbon uptake during the dry season in an Amazon evergreen forest

scientific article published on 4 March 2018

Amazonia trees have limited capacity to acclimate plant hydraulic properties in response to long-term drought

scientific article published on 14 February 2020

Biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Campo Rupestre: A road map for the sustainability of the hottest Brazilian biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published in 2020

Biome Awareness Disparity is BAD for tropical ecosystem conservation and restoration

scientific article

Can traits predict individual growth performance? A test in a hyperdiverse tropical forest.

scientific article

Carbon assimilation and habitat segregation in resurrection plants: a comparison between desiccation- and non-desiccation-tolerant species of Neotropical Velloziaceae (Pandanales)

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Cerrado wetlands: multiple ecosystems deserving legal protection as a unique and irreplaceable treasure

scientific article published in 2022

Challenges and directions for open ecosystems biodiversity restoration: An overview of the techniques applied for Cerrado

scientific article published on 27 January 2023

Changes in plant functional traits and water use in Atlantic rainforest: evidence of conservative water use in spatio-temporal scales

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Changing precipitation regimes and the water and carbon economies of trees

Cloud forest trees with higher foliar water uptake capacity and anisohydric behavior are more vulnerable to drought and climate change

scientific article

Cluster-root formation and carboxylate release in Euplassa cantareirae (Proteaceae) from a neotropical biodiversity hotspot

Combining Eucalyptus wood production with the recovery of native tree diversity in mixed plantings: Implications for water use and availability

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

scientific article

Convergence of a specialized root trait in plants from nutrient-impoverished soils: phosphorus-acquisition strategy in a nonmycorrhizal cactus

scientific article

Convergence of soil nitrogen isotopes across global climate gradients.

scientific article

Coordination of rooting depth and leaf hydraulic traits defines drought-related strategies in the campos rupestres, a tropical montane biodiversity hotspot

article published in 2017

Correction to 'ENSO effects on the transpiration of eastern Amazon trees'

scholarly article published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system

scientific article published in 2024

Desiccation tolerance implies costs to productivity but allows survival under extreme drought conditions in Velloziaceae species in campos rupestres

scientific article published in 2021

Detecting Forest Response to Droughts with Global Observations of Vegetation Water Content

scientific article

Dew absorption by the leaf trichomes of Combretum leprosum in the Brazilian semiarid region

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Disturbance maintains alternative biome states.

scientific article published on 22 October 2015

Divergências funcionais e estratégias de resistência à seca entre espécies decíduas e sempre verdes tropicais

Diversity in nighttime transpiration behavior of woody species of the Atlantic Rain Forest, Brazil

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Do cluster roots of red alder play a role in nutrient acquisition from bedrock?

scientific article published on 04 June 2019

Does cluster-root activity benefit nutrient uptake and growth of co-existing species?

scientific article published on 10 August 2013

Double stress of waterlogging and drought drives forest–savanna coexistence

scientific article published in 2023

Downregulation of net phosphorus-uptake capacity is inversely related to leaf phosphorus-resorption proficiency in four species from a phosphorus-impoverished environment

scientific article published on 4 January 2013

Drought stress and tree size determine stem CO2 efflux in a tropical forest

scientific article published on 3 February 2018

Ecohydrological drivers of Neotropical vegetation in montane ecosystems

article published in 2018

Ecology and evolution of plant diversity in the endangered campo rupestre: a neglected conservation priority

article

Ecophysiology of Campos Rupestres Plants

article

Effects of grass functional diversity on invasion success by exotic grasses in Cerrado grasslands

scientific article published in 2023

Effects of nitrogen availability on the competitive interactions between an invasive and a native grass from Brazilian cerrado

article

Effects of partial throughfall exclusion on the phenology of Coussarea racemosa (Rubiaceae) in an east-central Amazon rainforest

scientific article

Effects of soil water availability on foliar water uptake of Araucaria angustifolia

article

Embolism resistance drives the distribution of Amazonian rainforest tree species along hydro-topographic gradients

scholarly article by Rafael S. Oliveira et al published 8 October 2018 in New Phytologist

Environmental controls in the water use patterns of a tropical cloud forest tree species, Drimys brasiliensis (Winteraceae).

scientific article

Erratum to: Changes in plant functional traits and water use in Atlantic rainforest: evidence of conservative water use in spatio-temporal scales

article

Erratum to: Nitrogen dynamics in subtropical fringe and basin mangrove forests inferred from stable isotopes

scientific article published on 01 March 2017

Eudicots from severely phosphorus-impoverished environments preferentially allocate phosphorus to their mesophyll

scientific article published on 15 February 2018

Evidence for direct water absorption by the shoot of the desiccation-tolerant plant Vellozia flavicans in the savannas of central Brazil

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Fine root biomass and root length density in a lowland and a montane tropical rain forest, SP, Brazil

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Foliar uptake of fog water and transport belowground alleviates drought effects in the cloud forest tree species, Drimys brasiliensis (Winteraceae).

scientific article

Foliar water uptake in Amazonian trees: Evidence and consequences

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Forest fragmentation impacts the seasonality of Amazonian evergreen canopies

scientific article published on 17 February 2022

Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests

scientific article

Functional traits above and below ground allow species with distinct ecological strategies to coexist in the largest seasonally dry tropical forest in the Americas

scientific article published in 2022

Global overview on nitrogen dynamics in mangroves and consequences of increasing nitrogen availability for these systems

article

Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database

scientific article

Harvesting water from unsaturated atmospheres: deliquescence of salt secreted onto leaf surfaces drives reverse sap flow in a dominant arid climate mangrove, Avicennia marina

scientific article

High abundance of non-mycorrhizal plant species in severely phosphorus-impoverished Brazilian campos rupestres

article

How Climate Shapes the Functioning of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

How do leaf wetting events affect gas exchange and leaf lifespan of plants from seasonally dry tropical vegetation?

scientific article published on 26 July 2019

How effective is direct seeding to restore the functional composition of neotropical savannas?

scientific article published on 19 June 2021

Hydraulic architecture of lianas in a semiarid climate: efficiency or safety?

scientific article published in 2015

Hydraulic prediction of drought‐induced plant dieback and top‐kill depends on leaf habit and growth form

scientific article published on 19 August 2021

Hydraulic redistribution in three Amazonian trees

scientific article

Hydraulic traits explain differential responses of Amazonian forests to the 2015 El Niño-induced drought

scientific article published on 21 June 2019

Ideas and perspectives: Tree-atmosphere interaction responds to water-related stem variations

Ideas and perspectives: Tree–atmosphere interaction responds to water-related stem variations

scientific article published in 2018

Identifying hotspots for ecosystem restoration across heterogeneous tropical savannah-dominated regions

scientific article published on 14 November 2022

Infrared Nanospectroscopy Reveals the Chemical Nature of Pit Membranes in Water-Conducting Cells of the Plant Xylem

scientific article published on 05 June 2018

Inoculation with Azospirillum brasilense (Ab-V4, Ab-V5) increases Zea mays root carboxylate-exudation rates, dependent on soil phosphorus supply

Inoculum origin and soil legacy can shape plant–soil feedback outcomes for tropical grassland restoration

scientific article published on 28 May 2021

Is leaf water repellency related to vapor pressure deficit and crown exposure in tropical forests?

article published in 2010

LT‐Brazil: A database of leaf traits across biomes and vegetation types in Brazil

scientific article published on 30 August 2021

Leaf manganese accumulation and phosphorus-acquisition efficiency

scientific article

Leaf water storage increases with salinity and aridity in the mangrove Avicennia marina: integration of leaf structure, osmotic adjustment and access to multiple water sources

scientific article

Lignin composition is related to xylem embolism resistance and leaf life span in trees in a tropical semiarid climate

scientific article

Linking plant hydraulics and the fast–slow continuum to understand resilience to drought in tropical ecosystems

scientific article published in 2021

Local hydrological gradients structure high intraspecific variability in plant hydraulic traits in two dominant central Amazonian tree species

scientific article

Mapping native and non-native vegetation in the Brazilian Cerrado using freely available satellite products

scientific article published on 28 January 2022

Measuring Tree Properties and Responses Using Low-Cost Accelerometers

scientific article

Metabolic Adaptations of the Non-Mycotrophic Proteaceae to Soils With Low Phosphorus Availability

Microbiomes of Velloziaceae from phosphorus-impoverished soils of the campos rupestres, a biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

Mineral nutrition of campos rupestres plant species on contrasting nutrient-impoverished soil types

scientific article

Modelling tropical forest responses to drought and El Niño with a stomatal optimization model based on xylem hydraulics

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Molecular responses to freshwater limitation in the mangrove tree Avicennia germinans (Acanthaceae)

scientific article published on 30 December 2019

Myth‐busting tropical grassy biome restoration

scientific article

Nighttime transpiration in woody plants from contrasting ecosystems

scientific article published on April 2007

Nitrogen dynamics in subtropical fringe and basin mangrove forests inferred from stable isotopes

scientific article

No evidence of positive feedback between litter deposition and seedling growth rate in Neotropical savannas

scientific article published on 02 October 2021

Non-structural carbohydrates mediate seasonal water stress across Amazon forests

scientific article

On xylem hydraulic efficiencies, wood space-use and the safety-efficiency tradeoff: Comment on Gleason et al. (2016) 'Weak tradeoff between xylem safety and xylem-specific hydraulic efficiency across the world's woody plant species'.

scientific article published on 27 June 2016

Phosphorus- and nitrogen-acquisition strategies in two Bossiaea species (Fabaceae) along retrogressive soil chronosequences in south-western Australia.

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Phytogeographical origin determines Tropical Montane Cloud Forest hydraulic trait composition

scientific article published on 16 January 2022

Plant pneumatics: stem air flow is related to embolism - new perspectives on methods in plant hydraulics

scientific article published on 25 February 2016

Plant traits controlling growth change in response to a drier climate

scientific article published on 27 September 2020

Pneumatic Method to Measure Plant Xylem Embolism

publication published on 20 October 2018

Proteaceae from phosphorus-impoverished habitats preferentially allocate phosphorus to photosynthetic cells: An adaptation improving phosphorus-use efficiency

scientific article

Rainfall and topographic position determine tree embolism resistance in Amazônia and Cerrado sites

scientific article published on 13 October 2023

Root functioning modifies seasonal climate

scientific article

Root positioning and trait shifts in Hibbertia racemosa as dependent on its neighbour's nutrient-acquisition strategy

scientific article published on 02 January 2021

Savanna soil fertility limits growth but not survival of tropical forest tree seedlings

article by Ricardo A. G. Viani et al published 14 July 2011 in Plant and Soil

Savanna–Forest Coexistence Across a Fire Gradient

scientific article published on 07 June 2021

Shoot surface water uptake enables leaf hydraulic recovery in Avicennia marina

scientific article published on 17 September 2019

Small and slow is safe: On the drought tolerance of tropical tree species

scientific article published on 10 January 2022

Small tropical forest trees have a greater capacity to adjust carbon metabolism to long-term drought than large canopy trees

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Soil erosion as a resilience drain in disturbed tropical forests

scientific article published on 08 May 2019

Soil pH accounts for differences in species distribution and leaf nutrient concentrations of Brazilian woodland savannah and seasonally dry forest species

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South American mountain ecosystems and global change – a case study for integrating theory and field observations for land surface modelling and ecosystem management

Species-Specific Effects of Ant Inhabitants on Bromeliad Nutrition

scientific article

Stand dynamics modulate water cycling and mortality risk in droughted tropical forest

scientific article published on 28 July 2017

Stomatal optimization based on xylem hydraulics (SOX) improves land surface model simulation of vegetation responses to climate

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Tall Amazonian forests are less sensitive to precipitation variability

article by Francesco Giardina et al published 28 May 2018 in Nature Geoscience

Temperature sensitivity of termites determines global wood decay rates

Testing the plant pneumatic method to estimate xylem embolism resistance in stems of temperate trees

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

The Pneumatron: An automated pneumatic apparatus for estimating xylem vulnerability to embolism at high temporal resolution

scientific article published on 05 September 2019

The Use of Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotopes to Track Effects of Land‐Use Changes in the Brazilian Amazon Region

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The hydroclimatic and ecophysiological basis of cloud forest distributions under current and projected climates

scientific article

The importance of hydraulic architecture to the distribution patterns of trees in a central Amazonian forest

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

The importance of phyllosphere on plant functional ecology: a phyllo trait manifesto

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Toward diverse seed sourcing to upscale ecological restoration in the Brazilian Cerrado

scientific article published on 24 November 2022

Towards more sustainable cropping systems: lessons from native Cerrado species

Towards the flower economics spectrum

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Trade-off between soluble protein production and nutritional storage in Bromeliaceae

scientific article published on 29 August 2016

Traits related to efficient acquisition and use of phosphorus promote diversification in Proteaceae in phosphorus‐impoverished landscapes

scientific article published on 22 March 2021

Tropical riparian forests in danger from large savanna wildfires

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Underground leaves of Philcoxia trap and digest nematodes

scientific article

Variable tree rooting strategies are key for modelling the distribution, productivity and evapotranspiration of tropical evergreen forests

scientific article published in 2021

Variation of non‐structural carbohydrates across the fast–slow continuum in Amazon Forest canopy trees

scientific article

Viminaria juncea does not vary its shoot phosphorus concentration and only marginally decreases its mycorrhizal colonization and cluster-root dry weight under a wide range of phosphorus supplies

scientific article

Water stress detection in the Amazon using radar

scholarly article

Why is liana abundance low in semiarid climates?

scientific article published in 2016

Xylem hydraulic safety and construction costs determine tropical tree growth.

scientific article

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