Published articles
All publications listed here include the participation of Prof. Dr. Sandra Cristina Müller, who is responsible for the Plant Ecology Laboratory at UFRGS.
If you are unable to access any of the articles below, please contact us via email at sandra.muller@ufrgs.br.
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.
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.
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.