The restoration should involve the return of vegetation cover and ecological processes. This study aims to assess whether the restoration of diversity also promoted the recovery of the ecological functionality of an area ...

The Atlantic Forest, located in Brazil, has one of the highest levels of biodiversity and endemism on the planet, mainly due to the variety of vegetation types associated with the various types of soil, topography and ...

The Cerrado biome is located in Central Brazil Plateau occupying 2,036.448 km². Its weather is characterized by seasonality and the landscape by a vegetation mosaic. Those factors contribute for Cerrado to be known as the ...

In Brazil, species introduction in freshwater ecosystems has become an important topic in conservation ecology, as it is one of the main causes of biodiversity loss. Invasive species benefiting from the lack of natural ...

Phenology of Atlantic Forest is still ongoing issue for environmental studies. The goal of our study was to analyze and evaluate the phenology of plants pollinated and dispersed by birds on a stretch of Brazilian Atlantic ...

Preliminary studies on reservoir Itupararanga indicate that the seasonal dynamics of plankton community is not being strongly controlled by bottom-up forces. Cianobactéria Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii and clorofícea ...

Pilosocereus aureispinus (Buining & Brederoo) F. Ritter is a narrow endemic columnar cactus of eastern Brazil, occurring at Ibotirama and Oliveira dos Brejinhos, Bahia. In this work the genetic diversity and population ...

Rauvolfia L. is a pantropical genus with 70 species distributed throughout America, Africa and Asia, also being present in several remote islands like Hawaii and French Polynesia. Although having an estimated age of 34 ...