Artigos publicados

Effects of Deforestation and Fragmentation on Tree Beta Diversity and Endemism Across Landscapes in the Atlantic Forest Biodiversity Hotspot – Kramer et al., 2026.

Effects of Deforestation and Fragmentation on Tree Beta Diversity and Endemism Across Landscapes in the Atlantic Forest Biodiversity Hotspot – Kramer et al., 2025.

Temporal changes in taxonomic and functional alpha and beta diversity across tree communities in subtropical Atlantic forests – Kramer et al., 2025.

Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change – Aguirre-Gutérrez et al., 2025.

Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests – Aguirre-Gutiérrez et al., 2025.

Variation in wood density across South American tropical forests – Sullivan et al., 2025.

Tall stature and small leaves: ecological strategies that enhance tree growth across the subtropical Brazilian Atlantic Forest – Bordin et al., 2025.

Burn them all? Use and efficacy of fire as a tool for grassland restoration – Thomas et al., 2025.

Growth-survival trade-off in temperate trees is weak and restricted to late-successional stages – Bordin et al., 2025.

Germination of South Brazilian grassland herbaceous species: state of knowledge and research needs for advancing grassland restoration – Thomas et al., 2025

Towards a global understanding of tree mortality – International Tree Mortality Network, 2025.

Terras públicas: uma demanda potencial para impulsionar a restauração ecológica dos campos do Pampa – Dutra-Silva et al., 2024.

Elevational shifts in tree community composition in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest related to climate change – Bergamin et al., 2024.

Exploring seed density and limiting similarity to reduce invasive grass performance for grassland restoration purposes – Thomas et al., 2024.

The effect of neighbor species’ phylogenetic and trait difference on tree growth in subtropical forests – Klipel et al., 2024.

How can Brazilian legislation on native seeds advance based on good practices of restoration in other countries? – Dutra-Silva et al., 2024.

The pace of life for forest trees – Bialic-Murphy et al., 2024.

The role of tree crown on the performance of trees at individual and community levels: whole-phenotypic context matters – Klipel et al., 2024.

Tropical forest succession increases tree taxonomic and functional richness but decreases evenness – van der Sande et al., 2024.

Disentangling the veil line for Brazilian biodiversity: An overview from two long-term research programs reveals huge gaps in ecological data reporting – Guimarães et al., 2024.

Determinants of biogeographical distribution of grasses in grasslands of South America – Streit et al., 2024.

Biotic homogenization and differentiation of plant communities in tropical and subtropical forests. – Kramer et al., 2023.

No relationship between biodiversity and forest carbon sink across the subtropical Brazilian Atlantic Forest – Bordin et al., 2023.

Variability in leaf traits reveals contrasting strategies between forest and grassland woody communities across southern Brazil – Klipel et al., 2023.

How do distinct facets of tree diversity and community assembly respond to environmental variables in the subtropical Atlantic Forest? – Klipel et al., 2023.

The potential of hay for graminoid introduction in the restoration of subtropical grasslands: Results from a greenhouse experiment – Thomas et al., 2023.

Proposta de guia para a restauração de campos nativos no sul do Brasil – Guarino et al., 2023.

Terras públicas: uma demanda potencial para impulsionar a restauração ecológica dos campos do Pampa – Dutra-Silva et al., 2023.

A restauração ecológica dos campos do bioma Pampa: Avanços e desafios na Década da Restauração de Ecossistemas – Overbeck et al., 2023.

Nuanced qualitative trait approaches reveal environmental filtering and phylogenetic constraints on lichen communities – Koch et al., 2022.

Making Forest Data Fair and Open – Lima et al., 2022.

Estrutura, diversidade e contingentes fitogeográficos do componente arbóreo de uma floresta ribeirinha no Planalto da Campanha, bioma Pampa – Vargas et al., 2022.

Placing Brazil’s grasslands and savannas on the map of science and conservation – Overbeck et al., 2022.

Strong floristic distinctiveness across Neotropical successional forests – Jakovac et al., 2022.

Climatic distribution of tree species in the Atlantic Forest – Klipel et al., 2022.

Os butiazais e as transformações das paisagens na região do Parque Estadual do Podocarpus, Encruzilhada do Sul, RS – Sosinski et al., 2022.

Canopy leaf traits, basal area and age predict functional patterns of regenerating communities in secondary subtropical forests

Climate and large-sized trees, but not diversity, drive above-ground biomass in subtropical forests – Bordin et al., 2021.

Plant functional traits explain species abundance patterns and strategies shifts among saplings and adult trees in Araucaria forests – Klipel et al., 2021.

Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests: Trait-climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities – Pinho et al., 2021.

Taking the pulse of Earth’s tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots – ForestPlots.net, Blundo et al., 2021.

Frost hinders the establishment of trees in highland grasslands in the Atlantic Forest ecotone region of southern Brazil – Frangipani et al., 2021.

Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests – Poorter et al., 2021.

Multidimensional tropical forest recovery – Poorter et al., 2021.

Elevational shifts in phylogenetic diversity of angiosperm trees across the subtropical Brazilian Atlantic Forest – Bergamin et al., 2020.

Predicting plant performance for the ecological restoration of grasslands: the role of regenerative traits – Silva et al., 2020.

Ecologia funcional como ferramenta para planejar e monitorar a restauração ecológica de ecossistemas – Rosenfield, 2020.

TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

Assessing ecosystem functioning in forests undergoing restoration – Rosenfield, 2019.

Plant Traits Rather than Species Richness Explain Ecological Processes in Subtropical Forests – Rosenfield, 2019.

Loss of suitable climatic areas for Araucaria forests over time – Bergamin et al., 2019.

Restoration of abandoned subtropical highland grasslands in Brazil: mowing produces fast effects, but hay transfer does not – Thomas et al., 2019.

Short gradient, but distinct plant strategies: the scheme applied to subtropical forests – Rosenfield et al., 2019.

Drivers of subtropical forest dynamics: the role of functional traits, forest structure and soil variables – Bordin, 2019.

Effects of grazing regimes on the temporal dynamics of grassland communities – Boavista et al., 2019.

Functional patterns of tree communities in natural Araucaria forests and old monoculture conifer plantations – Malysz et al., 2019.

Mass effects explain sapling community assembly in Araucaria mixed forest metacommunities – Rech et al., 2019.

Padrões espaciais da vegetação lenhosa associados ao processo de expansão da Floresta com Araucaria sobre Campos excluídos de manejo – Schinestsck et al., 2019.

Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests – Rozendaal et al., 2019.

Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time – Poorter et al., 2019.

Forest restoration after severe degradation by coal mining: lessons from the first years of monitoring – Rocha-Nicoleite et al., 2018.

Effects of initial disturbances and grazing regime on native grassland invasion by Eragrostis plana in southern Brazil – Baggio et al., 2018.

Controlling the invader Urochloa decumbens : subsidies for ecological restoration in subtropical Campos grassland – Thomas et al., 2018.

Diversity and floristic differentiation of South Brazilian coastal plain Atlantic forests based on herb layer life-forms – Santos-Junior et al., 2018.

Predicting restored communities based on reference ecosystems using a trait-based approach – Rosenfield, 2017.

Linking beta diversity patterns to protected areas: lessons from the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest – Bergamin et al., 2017.

AVALIAÇÃO DA REGENERAÇÃO NATURAL EM ÁREA DE RESTAURAÇÃO ECOLÓGICA E MATA CILIAR DE REFERÊNCIA. – Fonseca et al., 2017.

Degradation by coal mining should be priority in restoration planning – Rocha-Nicoleite et al., 2017.

Habitat structure influences the diversity, richness and composition of bird assemblages in successional Atlantic rain forests – Casas et al., 2016.

Integrating ecosystem functions into restoration ecology-recent advances and future directions – Kollmann et al., 2016.

Assembly patterns and functional diversity of tree species in a successional gradient of Araucaria forest in Southern Brazil – Vicente-Silva et al., 2016.

Scale-specific processes shape plant community patterns in subtropical coastal grasslands – Menezes et al., 2015.

Recurrent patterns of phylogenetic habitat filtering in woody plant communities across phytogeographically distinct grassland-forest ecotones – Debastiani et al., 2015.

Floristic and structural patterns in South Brazilian coastal grasslands – Menezes et al., 2015.

Conservation in Brazil needs to include non-forest ecosystems – Overbeck et al., 2015.

Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness – Fraser et al., 2015.

Compilation of woody species occurring in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest complex – Bergamin et al., 2015.

 Interactive effects of environmental filtering predict beta-diversity patterns in a subtropical forest metacommunity – Santos et al., 2015.

Combined fire and grazing of surrounding grassland does not prevent saxicolous lichens growth – Koch et al., 2015.

Perda de diversidade taxonômica e funcional de aves em área urbana no sul do Brasil – Sacco et al., 2015.

Atlantic rain forest recovery: successional drivers of floristic and structural patterns of secondary forest in Southern Brazil – Zanini et al., 2014.

Forest expansion or fragmentation? Discriminating forest fragments from natural forest patches through patch structure and spatial context metrics – Matte et al., 2014.

Taxonomic and functional diversity of woody plant communities on opposing slopes of inselbergs in southern Brazil – Carlucci et al., 2014.

Functional diversity and traits assembly patterns of lichens as indicators of successional stages in a tropical rainforest – Koch et al., 2013.

Functional redundancy and stability in plant communities – Pillar et al., 2013.

Shifts in composition of avian communities related to temperate-grassland afforestation in southeastern South America – Dias et al., 2013.

Restoration Ecology in Brasil – time to step out of the forest – Overbeck et al., 2013.

Indicator species and floristic patterns in different forest formations in southern Atlantic rainforests of Brazil – Bergamin et al., 2012.

Woody species patterns at forest grassland boundaries in southern Brazil – Müller et al., 2012.

Functional redundancy in a clipping experiment on grassland plant communities – Joner et al., 2011.

TRY a global database of plant traits – Kattge et al., 2011.

Chuva de sementes de espécies lenhosas florestais em mosaicos de Floresta com Araucária e Campos no Sul do Brasil – Santos et al., 2011.

Florística e padrões estruturais de um fragmento florestal urbano, região metropolitana de Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil – Troian et al., 2011.

Comparison between grassland communities with and without disturbances – Baldissera et al., 2010.

Fire intensity and severity in Brazilian Campos grasslands – Fidelis et al., 2010.

Floristic and vegetation structure of a granitic grassland in Southern Brazil – Ferreira et al., 2010.

Population biology and regeneration of forbs and shrubs after fire in Brazilian Campos grasslands – Fidelis et al., 2010.

Florística e fitossociologia da vegetação de um campo sujeito à arenização no sudoeste do Rio Grande do Sul – Freitas et al., 2009.

Plant functional types of woody species related to fire disturbance in forest-grassland ecotones – Müller et al., 2007.

Brazil’s neglected biome: The South Brazilian Campos. – Overbeck et al., 2007.

Late-Holocene fire history in a forest-grassland mosaic in southern Brasil: Implications for conservation – Behling et al., 2007.

Overbeck GE, Müller SC, Pillar VD, Pfadenhauer J (2006). Floristic composition, environmental variation and species distribution patterns in burned grassland in southern Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Biology 66: 1073-90.

Overbeck GE, Müller SC, Pillar VD, Pfadenhauer J (2005). Fine-scale post-fire dynamics in South Brazilian subtropical grassland. Journal of Vegetation Science 16: 655-64.

Overbeck GE, Müller SC, Pillar VD, Pfadenhauer J (2005). No heat-stimulated germination found in herbaceous species from burned subtropical grassland. Plant Ecology 184: 237-243.

Müller SC, Waechter JL (2001). Estrutura sinusial dos componentes herbáceo e arbustivo de uma floresta costeira subtropical. Revista Brasileira de Botânica 24: 395-406.

Medeiros JD, Müller SC (1996). O desenvolvimento de anteras e do gametófito masculino em Calophyllum brasiliensis (Clusiaceae). Biotemas 9: 81-9.