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Global-change drivers of ecosystem functioning modulated by natural variability and saturating responses
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2017-02)
Humans are altering global environment at an unprecedented rate through changes in biodiversity, climate, nitrogen cycle, and land use. To address their effects on ecosystem functioning, experiments most frequently explore ...
Reshaping the global agricultural landscape: perspectives from Brazil
(WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC, 2010)
This article highlights the main changes observed in Brazilian agriculture and analyzes the connections of the observed changes in global agriculture. My approach to the analysis focuses the main drivers of changes, where ...
Natural and human forcing in recent geomorphic change; case studies in the Rio de la Plata basin
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2010)
An analysis of geomorphic system`s response to change in human and natural drivers in some areas within the Rio de la Plata basin is presented The aim is to determine whether an acceleration of geomorphic processes has ...
Drivers of change in animal protein production systems: changes from 'traditional' to 'modern' beef cattle production systems in Brazil
(2013)
Until 1990, beef cattle production in Brazil was recognized as an enterprise of low investment, low cost of production, as well as an extensive production system that used large land areas to be economically feasible. The ...
Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: A global assessment
(Elsevier SCI LTDOxford, 2012)
This meta-analysis of land-cover transformations of the past 10-15 years in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers world-wide shows that swidden agriculture decreases in landscapes with access to local, national and ...
Beyond species loss: the extinction of ecological interactions in a changing world
(John Wiley, 2015)
1. The effects of the present biodiversity crisis have been largely focused on the loss of species.
However, a missed component of biodiversity loss that often accompanies or even precedes
species disappearance is the ...
Beyond species loss: the extinction of ecological interactions in a changing world
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015-03-01)
The effects of the present biodiversity crisis have been largely focused on the loss of species. However, a missed component of biodiversity loss that often accompanies or even precedes species disappearance is the extinction ...
Assessing changes in the atmospheric water budget as drivers for precipitation change over two CORDEX-CORE domains
(2020-01-01)
This study evaluates the projected changes in the atmospheric water budget and precipitation under the RCP8.5 scenario over two CORDEX-CORE domains: South America (SAM) and Europe (EUR). An ensemble of five twenty-first ...
Global climatic drivers of leaf size
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2017-11)
Leaf size varies by over a 100,000-fold among species worldwide. Although 19th-century plant geographers noted that the wet tropics harbor plants with exceptionally large leaves,the latitudinal gradient of leaf size has ...
A systematic evidence map of conservation knowledge in Chilean Patagonia
(Wiley, 2022)
Mechanisms that reliably and efficiently guide practitioners to find relevant
evidence are urgent for conservation decision-making in Chilean Patagonia.
The objective of this study was to systematically collect, characterize, ...