Natural regeneration in repeatedly-burned pastures in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

We studied a series of pastures attained by repeated fires in the Poço das Antas Biological Reserve, from the constatation that the phylogenetic structure was deeply modified (Viany et al 2018) and that the resulting vegetation is undergoing a transition towards derived savanna (Sansevero et al 2019). A synthesis about the dual nature of the transition, which breaks the fire cycle but leads the vegetation to empoverished succession states, was published in Sánchez-Tapia et al (2020).

Publications:

Sánchez-Tapia A, Sansevero JBB, Garbin ML, Braga JMA, Figueiredo PHA and Scarano FR (2020) Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty? A Fire-Resistant Species Triggers Divergent Regeneration in Low-Resilience Pastures. Front. For. Glob. Change 3:560912. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2020.560912

Sansevero, J.B.B. et al. (2020) Fire drives abandoned pastures to a savanna-like state in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation 18, 31–36

Sansevero, J.B.B. et al. (2017) Past land-use and ecological resilience in a lowland Brazilian Atlantic Forest: implications for passive restoration. New Forests 48, 573–586

Prieto, P.V. et al. (2017) Secondary succession and fire disturbance promote dominance of a late-diverging tree lineage in a lowland Neotropical forest. Plant Ecology & Diversity 10, 311–322