Questions: Termite mounds are important sources of local-scale soil heterogeneity and thereby affect savanna vegetation. Studies contrasting mound and savanna vegetation usually neglect variation ...

The mechanism has resulted from evolution over millions of years to protect the buds that enable plants to survive fire. A study conducted in an environmental protection unit can contribute to ...

SAO PAULO, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Deforestation in the world's most biologically diverse savanna, the Brazilian Cerrado, rose by around 25% in the 12 months through July from the previous period, two ...

Almost half of Brazil’s Cerrado savanna has been deforested, and restoration proposals now center largely on planting trees in the degraded areas. However, as a grassland, and not a degraded forest, ...

The transformation of the Amazon and Atlantic rainforests into savanna-like environments will change the makeup of both the flora and the fauna of these biomes. A study by Brazilian researchers ...

The expansion of tropical forest into savanna may potentially be a large carbon sink, but little is known about the patterns of carbon sequestration during transitional forest formation. Moreover, it ...

Workers clear trees and wooded vegetation Thursday at the Matsell Bridge Natural Area near Central City as restoration begins of a 9-acre savanna. The project is funded by a $10,000 National Fish & ...

When Christmas draws near, I always find myself thinking about the plants that remind me of the holiday season.

Brazilian farmers continue to plant more soy in Brazil's Cerrado savanna region but are cutting fewer trees to do so to avoid the costly investment, according to oilseeds crusher group Abiove which ...

Human bipedalism—walking upright on two legs—may have evolved in trees, and not on the ground as previously thought, according to a new study involving UCL researchers. In the study, published today ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian farmers continue to plant more soy in Brazil's Cerrado savanna region but are cutting fewer trees to do so to avoid the costly investment, according to oilseeds crusher ...