Search Results - "Pillar, Valério D"

Long-term ecological research in southern Brazil grasslands: Effects of grazing exclusion and deferred grazing on plant and arthropod communities by Ferreira, Pedro M A, Andrade, Bianca O, Podgaiski, Luciana R, Dias, Amanda C, Pillar, Valério D, Overbeck, Gerhard E, Mendonça, Jr, Milton de S, Boldrini, Ilsi I

“…Grazing exclusion may lead to biodiversity loss and homogenization of naturally heterogeneous and species-rich grassland ecosystems, and these effects may…”
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Functional redundancy and stability in plant communities by Pillar, Valério D., Blanco, Carolina C., Müller, Sandra C., Sosinski, Enio E., Joner, Fernando, Duarte, Leandro D. S.

“…Questions: Functional redundancy in assemblages may insure ecosystem processes after perturbation, potentially causing temporary or permanent local species…”
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Spider trait assembly patterns and resilience under fire-induced vegetation change in South Brazilian grasslands by Podgaiski, Luciana R, Joner, Fernando, Lavorel, Sandra, Moretti, Marco, Ibanez, Sebastien, Mendonça, Jr, Milton de S, Pillar, Valério D

“…Disturbances induce changes on habitat proprieties that may filter organism's functional traits thereby shaping the structure and interactions of many trophic…”
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Why Brazil needs its Legal Reserves by Metzger, Jean Paul, Bustamante, Mercedes M.C., Ferreira, Joice, Fernandes, Geraldo Wilson, Librán-Embid, Felipe, Pillar, Valério D., Prist, Paula R., Rodrigues, Ricardo Ribeiro, Vieira, Ima Célia G., Overbeck, Gerhard E.

“…[Display omitted] •Legal Reserves represent almost one third of all remaining native vegetation in Brazil.•There is no solid argument, evidence or theory that…”
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Classification of South Brazilian grasslands: Implications for conservation by Andrade, Bianca O., Bonilha, Camila L., Overbeck, Gerhard E., Vélez‐Martin, Eduardo, Rolim, Rosângela G., Bordignon, Sérgio Augusto L., Schneider, Angelo A., Vogel Ely, Cleusa, Lucas, Dióber B., Garcia, Élen N., dos Santos, Emily D., Torchelsen, Fábio P., Vieira, Mariana S., Silva Filho, Pedro J. S., Ferreira, Pedro M. A., Trevisan, Rafael, Hollas, Raquel, Campestrini, Sérgio, Pillar, Valério D., Boldrini, Ilsi I., Jansen, Florian

“…Aims We offer a first classification of South Brazilian grasslands (Campos Sulinos) based on quantitative vegetation data and describing grassland types in…”
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Past century changes in Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze water use efficiency and growth in forest and grassland ecosystems of southern Brazil: implications for forest expansion by SILVA, LUCAS C.R, ANAND, MADHUR, OLIVEIRA, JULIANO M, PILLAR, VALÉRIO D

“…Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze is an indigenous conifer tree restricted to the southern region of South America that plays a key role in the dynamics…”
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Assessing spatial and environmental drivers of phylogenetic structure in Brazilian Araucaria forests by Duarte, Leandro D. S., Prieto, Pablo V., Pillar, Valério D.

“…Evidence of phylogenetic conservatism in plant ecological traits has accumulated over the past few years, suggesting an interplay between the distribution of…”
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Species niches, not traits, determine abundance and occupancy patterns: A multi‐site synthesis by Marino, Nicholas A. C., Céréghino, Régis, Gilbert, Benjamin, Petermann, Jana S., Srivastava, Diane S., Omena, Paula M., Bautista, Fabiola Ospina, Guzman, Laura Melissa, Romero, Gustavo Q., Trzcinski, M. Kurtis, Barberis, Ignacio M., Corbara, Bruno, Debastiani, Vanderlei J., Dézerald, Olivier, Kratina, Pavel, Leroy, Céline, MacDonald, Arthur Andrew M., Montero, Guillermo, Pillar, Valério D., Richardson, Barbara A., Richardson, Michael J., Talaga, Stanislas, Gonçalves, Ana Z., Piccoli, Gustavo C. O., Jocqué, Merlijn, Farjalla, Vinicius F., Belmaker, Jonathan

“…Aim Locally abundant species are usually widespread, and this pattern has been related to properties of the niches and traits of species. However, such…”
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Identifying the Informational/Signal Dimension in Principal Component Analysis by Camiz, Sergio, Pillar, Valério

“…The identification of a reduced dimensional representation of the data is among the main issues of exploratory multidimensional data analysis and several…”
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Author Correction: Three pathways to better recognize the expertise of Global South researchers by Nakamura, Gabriel, Soares, Bruno Eleres, Pillar, Valério D, Diniz-Filho, José Alexandre Felizola, Duarte, Leandro

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Three pathways to better recognize the expertise of Global South researchers by Nakamura, Gabriel, Soares, Bruno Eleres, Pillar, Valério D, Diniz-Filho, José Alexandre Felizola, Duarte, Leandro

“…It is widely perceived how research institutes have been adopting the discourse of champions of diversity, inclusion, and equity (DEI) in recent years. Despite…”
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Exploring seed to seed effects for understanding invasive species success by Guido, Anaclara, Hoss, Daniela, Pillar, Valério D.

“…•Earlier germination of E. plana may explain its high invasion potential in southern Brazil.•E. plana seeds did not affect germination of native seeds in…”
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Effects of Brazil's Political Crisis on the Science Needed for Biodiversity Conservation by Magnusson, William E., Grelle, Carlos E. V., Marques, Márcia C. M., Rocha, Carlos F. D., Dias, Braulio, Fontana, Carla S., Bergallo, Helena, Overbeck, Gerhard E., Vale, Mariana M., Tomas, Walfrido M., Cerqueira, Rui, Collevatti, Rosane, Pillar, Valério D., Malabarba, Luiz R., Lins-e-Silva, Ana Carolina, Neckel-Oliveira, Selvino, Martinelli, Bruno, Akama, Alberto, Rodrigues, Domingos, Silveira, Luis F., Scariot, Aldicir, Fernandes, Geraldo W.

“…The effects of Brazil's political crisis on science funding necessary for biodiversity conservation are likely to be global. Brazil is not only the world's…”
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Plant Functional Types of Woody Species Related to Fire Disturbance in Forest-Grassland Ecotones by Müller, Sandra C, Overbeck, Gerhard E, Pfadenhauer, Jörg, Pillar, Valério D

“…The study of plant functional types (PFTs) has been widely emphasized when analysing plant community changes in relation to variations in climate and…”
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Grassland vegetation sampling - a practical guide for sampling and data analysis by Andrade, Bianca Ott, Boldrini, Ilsi Iob, Cadenazzi, Monica, Pillar, Valério D., Overbeck, Gerhard Ernst

“…ABSTRACT Grassland and savanna ecosystems are the original vegetation types of more than 30% of the Brazilian territory, but conservation and training of…”
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Late-Holocene fire history in a forest-grassland mosaic in southern Brasil: Implications for conservation by Behling, Hermann, Pillar, Valério D, Müller, Sandra C, Overbeck, Gerhard E

“…Question: Is the diverse mosaic of forest/grassland (Campos) vegetation on the hills in the Porto Alegre region natural or of anthropogenic origin? What are…”
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Learning from a climate disaster: The catastrophic floods in southern Brazil by Pillar, Valério D, Overbeck, Gerhard E

“…The catastrophic floods that affected southern Brazil last May should serve as a warning to human societies that, despite the still widespread climate change…”
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Trait divergence in plant community assembly is generated by environmental factor interactions by Pillar, Valério D.

“…Question What conditions drive trait divergence during community assembly through environmental filtering, and why are some communities more trait‐diverse than…”
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Response to Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness" by Pither, Jason, Fraser, Lauchlan H, Jentsch, Anke, Sternberg, Marcelo, Zobel, Martin, Cahill, James, Beierkuhnlein, Carl, Bartha, Sándor, Bennett, Jonathan A, Boldgiv, Bazartseren, Brown, Leslie R, Cabido, Marcelo, Campetella, Giandiego, Carlyle, Cameron N, Chelli, Stefano, Csergő, Anna Mária, Diaz, Sandra, Enrico, Lucas, Ensing, David, Fidelis, Alessandra, Garris, Heath W, Henry, Hugh A L, Höhn, Maria, Klironomos, John, Koorem, Kadri, Lawrence-Lodge, Rachael, Manning, Peter, Mitchell, Randall J, Moora, Mari, Pillar, Valério D, Stotz, Gisela C, Sugiyama, Shu-ichi, Szentes, Szilárd, Tungalag, Radnaakhand, Undrakhbold, Sainbileg, Wellstein, Camilla, Zupo, Talita

“…Tredennick et al. criticize one of our statistical analyses and emphasize the low explanatory power of models relating productivity to diversity. These…”
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SYNCSA—R tool for analysis of metacommunities based on functional traits and phylogeny of the community components by DEBASTIANI, Vanderlei J, PILLAR, Valério D

“…SYNCSA is an R package for the analysis of metacommunities based on functional traits and phylogeny of the community components. It offers tools to calculate…”
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