Search Results - "Pillar, V. D"

Atlantic rain forest recovery: successional drivers of floristic and structural patterns of secondary forest in Southern Brazil by Zanini, K. J, Bergamin, R. S, Machado, R. E, Pillar, V. D, Müller, S. C, Gilliam, Frank

“…QUESTIONS: The growing importance of secondary forests has stimulated research on the patterns of structure, biomass, species diversity and species composition…”
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How accurate and powerful are randomization tests in multivariate analysis of variance? by Pillar, V. D

“…Multivariate analysis of variance, based on randomization (permutation) test, has become an important tool for ecological data analyses. However, a…”
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Functional turnover and community assemblage during tropical forest succession by Marcilio-Silva, V., Pillar, V. D., Marques, M. C. M.

“…Changes in species composition during the succession of ecological communities potentially reflect the differential effects of environmental filters and…”
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Plant traits and functional types in response to reduced disturbance in a semi-natural grassland by Louault, F, Pillar, V. D, Aufrère, J, Garnier, E, Soussana, J-F

“…Question: How do functional types respond to contrasting levels of herbage use in temperate and fertile grasslands? Location: Central France (3°1′ E, 45°43′…”
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The southern Brazilian grassland biome: soil carbon stocks, fluxes of greenhouse gases and some options for mitigation by Pillar, V D, Tornquist, C G, Bayer, C

“…The southern Brazilian grassland biome contains highly diverse natural ecosystems that have been used for centuries for grazing livestock and that also provide…”
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Trait-convergence and divergence assembly patterns in a temperate forest herbaceous layer along the gradient of canopy closure by Joner, F, M. Anand, V. D. Pillar

“…Gradients of physical conditions and biological interactions of species may generate assembly patterns of trait-convergence and trait-divergence in the…”
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Floristic composition, environmental variation and species distribution patterns in burned grassland in southern Brazil by Overbeck, G E, Müller, S C, Pillar, V D, Pfadenhauer, J

“…In regularly burned grassland on Morro Santana, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, we investigated differences in the floristic composition and their relation to soil…”
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Plant diaspore traits as indicators of mutualistic interactions in woody vegetation patches developing into a grassland-forest mosaic by Duarte, L. D. S, M. B. Carlucci, C. S. Fontana, S. M. Hartz, V. D. Pillar

“…We evaluated the functional relevance of diaspore traits related to disperser attraction (DAT) of woody plants as indicators of plant-disperser mutualisms in…”
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Comparison of single and complete linkage clustering with the hierarchical factor classification of variables by Camiz, S, V. D. Pillar

“…We assess the performance of a new clustering method for Hierarchical Factor Classification of variables, which is based on the evaluation of the least…”
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Spatial patterns and relations with site factors in a campos grassland under grazing by Focht, T, Pillar, V D

“…Spatial distribution patterns and their relations with environmental factors at different scales were identified in ca. 100-ha grassland under cattle and sheep…”
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Hierarchical factor classification of variables in ecology by Camiz, S, J. -J. Denimal, V. D. Pillar

“…In the analysis of multidimensional ecological data, it is often relevant to identify groups of variables since these groups may reflect similar ecological…”
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Late Quaternary grassland (Campos), gallery forest, fire and climate dynamics, studied by pollen, charcoal and multivariate analysis of the São Francisco de Assis core in western Rio Grande do Sul (southern Brazil) by Behling, Hermann, Pillar, Valerio DePatta, Bauermann, Soraia Girardi

“…We present a detailed pollen and charcoal record of a 368-cm-long sediment core from the lowland Campos (grassland) region near the city of São Francisco de…”
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The southern Brazilian grassland biome: soil carbon stocks, fluxes of greenhouse gases and some options for mitigation/Campos do sul do Brasil: estoques de carbono no solo, fluxos de gases de efeito estufa e algumas opcoes para mitigacao by Pillar, V.D, Tornquist, C.G, Bayer, C

“…The southern Brazilian grassland biome contains highly diverse natural ecosystems that have been used for centuries for grazing livestock and that also provide…”
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On the overlap between effect and response plant functional types linked to grazing by Blanco, C. C., Sosinski, E. E., dos Santos, B. R. C., da Silva, M. A., Pillar, V. D.

“…The question addressed in this paper is whether plant traits and plant functional types related to forage selection by grazers are also related to those…”
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Biodiversity analysis: issues, concepts, techniques by Orloci, L, Anand, M, Pillar, V D

“…The paper responds to the question: How should one go about designing the statistical analysis of biodiversity if it had to be done across scales in time and…”
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Multiscale analysis of palynological records: new possibilities by Orlóci, L., Pillar, V. D., Anand, M.

“…Palynological records helped to illuminate the past, but we show the take can be made much sharper when statistical analysis recognises the records' scale…”
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sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots by Sabatini, Francesco Maria, Lenoir, Jonathan, Hattab, Tarek, Chytrý, Milan, Dengler, Jürgen, De Ruffray, Patrice, Hennekens, Stephan M., Jandt, Ute, Kattge, Jens, Pillar, Valério D., Purschke, Oliver, Sandel, Brody, Sultana, Fahmida, Aavik, Tsipe, Alvarez, Miguel, Apostolova, Iva, Arfin Khan, Mohammed A. S., Arroyo, Luzmila, Attorre, Fabio, Aubin, Isabelle, Banerjee, Arindam, Bauters, Marijn, Bergmeier, Erwin, Bjorkman, Anne D., Bonari, Gianmaria, Bondareva, Viktoria, Casella, Laura, Černý, Tomáš, Ćušterevska, Renata, De Bie, Els, Gasper, André Luis, Dolezal, Jiri, Dziuba, Tetiana, Enquist, Brian, Field, Richard, Finckh, Manfred, Gachet, Sophie, Galán‐de‐Mera, Antonio, Gholizadeh, Hamid, Giorgis, Melisa, Golub, Valentin, Alsos, Inger Greve, Grytnes, John‐Arvid, Gutiérrez, Alvaro G., Hatim, Mohamed Z., Hinojos Mendoza, Guillermo, Homeier, Jürgen, Hubau, Wannes, Indreica, Adrian, Janssen, John A. M., Jedrzejek, Birgit, Jürgens, Norbert, Kącki, Zygmunt, Kapfer, Jutta, Kearsley, Elizabeth, Khanina, Larisa, Killeen, Timothy, Kreft, Holger, Kuzemko, Anna, Lens, Frederic, Lingner, Débora Vanessa, Liu, Hongyan, Marcenò, Corrado, Martynenko, Vasiliy, Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel, Mucina, Ladislav, Munzinger, Jérôme, Onyshchenko, Viktor, Pärtel, Meelis, Pauchard, Aníbal, Peet, Robert K., Peñuelas, Josep, Pérez‐Haase, Aaron, Peterka, Tomáš, Petřík, Petr, Peyre, Gwendolyn, Prokhorov, Vadim, Rašomavičius, Valerijus, Revermann, Rasmus, Rivas‐Torres, Gonzalo, Rodwell, John S., Ruprecht, Eszter, Rūsiņa, Solvita, Samimi, Cyrus, Schmidt, Marco, Shan, Hanhuai, Shirokikh, Pavel, Šilc, Urban, Sparrow, Ben, Svenning, Jens‐Christian, Tang, Zhiyao, Vassilev, Kiril, Vélez‐Martin, Eduardo, Wagner, Viktoria, Walker, Donald A., Wang, Hua‐Feng, Whitfeld, Timothy J. S., Wiser, Susan K., Zobel, Martin, Bates, Amanda

“…Motivation Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for understanding, quantifying and predicting the effects of global change…”
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Recoding and multidimensional analyses of vegetation data: a comparison by Camiz, S., Torres, P., Pillar, V. D.

“…Two simulated coenoclines and a real data set were differently recoded with respect to the Braun-Blanquet coding (including presence/absence) and analysed…”
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Some interesting characteristics of the vegetation process by Orlóci, L., Pillar, V. D., Anand, M., Behling, H.

“…The characteristics discussed are measurable on the process “trajectory”, the path traced out by vegetation transitions in time. It is argued that since…”
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Probabilistic cellular automaton: model and application to vegetation dynamics by Lanzer, A.T.S, V.D. Pillar

“…We offer a new framework for cellular automata modeling to describe and predict vegetation dynamics. The model can simulate community composition and spatial…”
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