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Aim We investigate the distribution of dispersal modes — endozoochory (via animal ingestion), synzoochory (via animal seed accumulation) and anemochory (via wind)—and seed mass of woody plants across Brazilian ecosystems, testing whether their relative abundance in local plant communities could be predicted by climate, edaphic factors and dispersal agents (e.g., the main vectors moving seeds). We expected climate to be the mai...
Hospital Indoor Air as a Reservoir of Opportunistic Filamentous Fungi: Species Diversity and Antifungal SusceptibilityNARA Subscribed
Filamentous fungi are common airborne contaminants in hospitals, posing significant risks to immunocompromised patients. This study assessed the diversity, seasonal distribution, and antifungal susceptibility of airborne filamentous fungi, with a focus on Aspergillus spp., in two inpatient wards of a tertiary hospital in southeastern Brazil. Air samples were collected seasonally from November 2022 to September 2023 using a six...
The Cerrado biome, spanning ~2 million km 2 , is one of the most extensive and biodiverse tropical savannas, yet it is paradoxically dominated by only 30 hyperdominant tree species (~2% of all species, > 50% of all stems). However, their vulnerability to climate change and the effectiveness of current conservation efforts remain uncertain. By combining (i) species distribution models calibrated with edaphic‐climatic predictors...
The concern for water quality is a critical issue in many countries around the world. The monitoring of water resources should be implemented to ensure water management, especially when dealing with already impacted systems. Urbanization is an impactful type of activity that contributes to the release of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) into the ecosystems. The identification of plant species with the ability to tolerate high...
Forest Age Rivals Climate to Explain Reproductive Allocation Patterns in Forest Ecosystems GloballyNARA Subscribed
Forest allocation of net primary productivity (NPP) to reproduction (carbon required for flowers, fruits, and seeds) is poorly quantified globally, despite its critical role in forest regeneration and a well‐supported trade‐off with allocation to growth. Here, we present the first global synthesis of a biometric proxy for forest reproductive allocation (RA) across environmental and stand age gradients from a compiled dataset o...
This study carries out the first evaluation of the impacts of ravines and gullies in urban areas in Brazil considering environmental damage, such as costs related to land restoration and erosion control, infrastructure destruction, economic losses and income losses related to property and urban land taxes. In this study, the city of Bauru, Brazil, has been selected as study site, where three areas were chosen due to the large...
Winter heat waves characteristics associated with downslope windstorm in south BrazilNARA Subscribed
The air temperature anomaly was analysed in 16 consecutive winters from 2004 to 2019 in southern Brazil using reanalysis data and hourly atmospheric observations. In this study, 13 heat wave (HW) episodes were identified using the percentile methodology. All identified episodes are associated with the occurrence of a downslope windstorm known as Vento Norte (VNOR; Portuguese for ‘North Wind’). The VNOR is characterized by a sh...