Undesirable outcomes in seasonally dry forests

Carbon Cycling in Teak Plantations in Comparison with Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests in Thailand

Tracing the history of South-American neotropical savannas and seasonally dry forests evidences from comparative phylogeography

Background The Neotropical Seasonally Dry Forests (SDF) are treedominated ecosystems that occur in disjunct areas of fertile soils throughout the Neotropics. The hypothesis that the vicariance of a formerly continuous seasonal woodland formation, which may have reached its maximum extension during a dry-cool period 18,000–12,000 bp (the LGM), the Pleistocenic Arc Hypothesis, has been raised to ...

The role of climate and environmental variables in structuring bird assemblages in the Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests (SDTFs)

Understanding the processes that influence species diversity is still a challenge in ecological studies. However, there are two main theories to discuss this topic, the niche theory and the neutral theory. Our objective was to understand the importance of environmental and spatial processes in structuring bird communities within the hydrological seasons in dry forest areas in northeastern Brazi...

Factors Affecting the Abundance of Leaf-Litter Arthropods in Unburned and Thrice-Burned Seasonally-Dry Amazonian Forests

Fire is frequently used as a land management tool for cattle ranching and annual crops in the Amazon. However, these maintenance fires often escape into surrounding forests, with potentially severe impacts for forest biodiversity. We examined the effect of experimental fires on leaf-litter arthropod abundance in a seasonally-dry forest in the Brazilian Amazon. The study plots (50 ha each) inclu...

Corrigendum to: The establishment of Central American migratory corridors and the biogeographic origins of seasonally dry tropical forests in Mexico

[This corrects the article on p. 433 in vol. 5, PMID: 25566320.].