Disturbance Maintains Alternative Biome States

dc.creatorDantas
dc.creatorVinicius de L.; Hirota
dc.creatorMarina; Oliveira
dc.creatorRafael S.; Pausas
dc.creatorJuli G.
dc.date2016-JAN
dc.date2016-06-07T13:14:18Z
dc.date2016-06-07T13:14:18Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-29T01:35:05Z
dc.date.available2018-03-29T01:35:05Z
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dc.identifierDisturbance Maintains Alternative Biome States. Wiley-blackwell, v. 19, p. 12-19 JAN-2016.
dc.identifier1461-023X
dc.identifierWOS:000368073000003
dc.identifier10.1111/ele.12537
dc.identifierhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12537/abstract
dc.identifierhttp://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/241605
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/1305303
dc.descriptionFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
dc.descriptionConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
dc.descriptionUnderstanding the mechanisms controlling the distribution of biomes remains a challenge. Although tropical biome distribution has traditionally been explained by climate and soil, contrasting vegetation types often occur as mosaics with sharp boundaries under very similar environmental conditions. While evidence suggests that these biomes are alternative states, empirical broad-scale support to this hypothesis is still lacking. Using community-level field data and a novel resource-niche overlap approach, we show that, for a wide range of environmental conditions, fire feedbacks maintain savannas and forests as alternative biome states in both the Neotropics and the Afrotropics. In addition, wooded grasslands and savannas occurred as alternative grassy states in the Afrotropics, depending on the relative importance of fire and herbivory feedbacks. These results are consistent with landscape scale evidence and suggest that disturbance is a general factor driving and maintaining alternative biome states and vegetation mosaics in the tropics.
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dc.descriptionFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
dc.descriptionSpanish Government (TREVOL project) [CGL2012-39938-C02-01]
dc.descriptionConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
dc.descriptionFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
dc.descriptionConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
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dc.languageen
dc.publisherWILEY-BLACKWELL
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dc.publisherHOBOKEN
dc.relationECOLOGY LETTERS
dc.rightsfechado
dc.sourceWOS
dc.subjectAfrican Savanna
dc.subjectStable States
dc.subjectTropical Forest
dc.subjectGlobal Savannas
dc.subjectCentral Brazil
dc.subjectFire
dc.subjectTrees
dc.subjectThresholds
dc.subjectClimate
dc.subjectDeterminants
dc.titleDisturbance Maintains Alternative Biome States
dc.typeArtículos de revistas


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