Ted Feldpausch Research Group

In category: Savanna


Thirty Tree Species Dominate the World’s Most Tree-Diverse Savanna

A new study published in Communications Biology (Nature Portfolio) found a surprising pattern in the world’s largest and most floristically tree diverse tropical savanna, the Cerrado. The research shows that despite hosting approximately 1,605 tree species, a mere 30 species – less than 2% – account for nearly half of all trees. This phenomenon of […]


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Developing fire-vegetation modelling

Fire is an important disturbance factor on the land surface, and effects carbon, nitrogen and water cycles, and it is therefore important to be able to represent this process in models.


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