Manoela Machado

University of Oxford | OX · School of Geography and the Environment

Recent work has suggested fire suppression can be used to “restore” Central African savannas, increasing their biodiversity and capacity to sequester carbon. Here, we rebut this proposal, by showing that Central Africa's savannas are ancient, biodiverse, and fire‐dependent ecosystems. Suppressing fire within them would permanently harm these savann...

The fire crises in the Amazon continues to increase the risk of large-scale forest dieback, threatening regional biodiversity and global climate. This issue gained international attention in 2019 when fires in the Brazilian Amazon led to a fire ban imposition. Despite the uncertainty of its impact, the fire ban was reenacted in subsequent years. He...

Selective logging is one of the most widespread pattern of disturbance in tropical forests but has a much lower detrimental impact on forest structure than wildfires and conversion to farmland. Thus, logged tropical forest represents critical strongholds of global biodiversity. The ability of these forests to rapidly recover their baseline thermal...

ABSTRACT - (Fructification phenology of native plant species and the forest restoration in Fernando de Noronha archipelago, Pernambuco State, Brazil). The annual pattern of fructification phenology of 23 native species of trees and bushes of Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco State, Brazil was characterized with the aim of guiding the seed collection...

The annual pattern of fructification phenology of 23 native species of trees and bushes of Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco State, Brazil was characterized with the aim of guiding the seed collection towards the implementation of a local restoration program. It was found that most species (74%) presented higher absolute frequencies of fructification...