Choosing fit-for-purpose biodiversity impact indicators for agriculture in the Brazilian Cerrado ecoregion Journal: Nature Communications Published: 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57037-9 ...

It’s called the Cerrado, Portuguese for “closed,” and for nearly all of human history this vast tropical savanna in central Brazil seems to have been shut off from the rest of the world ...

Under Brazil's forestry code, landowners in the Cerrado can deforest up to 80% of their land legally, depending on the location, compared with 20% in the Amazon. But the vast majority of the ...

Deforestation last year rose to the highest level since 2015 in Brazil's Cerrado, prompting scientists on Monday to raise alarm over the state of the world's most species-rich savanna, a major ...

The Cerrado is home to hundreds of traditional peoples and communities, like the 400,000 coconut breakers who live from the babassu coconut tree that grows in the Cerrado. Image by Sarah Sax.

A classification of cultivated pastures in the Brazilian Cerrado for sustainable intensification and savanna restoration. Ambio, 51 (5), 1219-1226. doi: 10.1007/s13280-021-01646-3 ...

For decades, huge swaths of Brazil’s Cerrado ecosystem have been used to support the global demand for burgers. Forests and grasslands were replaced by pastures along with farms growing soy to ...

Agricultural intensification and childhood cancer in Brazil. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (45), e2306003120. Spehar, C. R. (1994).

To examine temporal variation in resource use, we compared species- and community-level patterns of host plant use by folivorous caterpillars between the dry and rainy seasons in four preserved areas ...