Marcos Pereira Marinho Aidar

• Abstract

  Tropical Forests hold half of the total stock of carbon in the world's vegetation and produce 34% of the total gross primary productivity in terrestrial systems across the planet, which represents the largest contribution to Earths' productivity from a single biome and is more than four times the contribution from boreal and temperate forests combined. At the same time, tropical forests s…

  ECOFOR: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in degraded and recovering Amazonian and Atlantic Forests, AP.BTA.TEM

• Abstract

  Contemporary models of soil organic carbon, simulate C dynamics by determining pool sizes and turnover rates. Microbial activities are not explicitly considered, and this is a major gap in the ability to accurately predict the response of terrestrial ecosystems to a variety of climate forcings. The key issue is one of acclimation - how and if the microbial community acclimates to changes …

  Testing the Microbial-ENzyme Decomposition (MEND) model of soil carbon and nitrogen cycling at Serra do Mar, São Paulo, AP.R

• Abstract

  Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is one of the three possible pathways of atmospheric carbon (CO2) assimilation via photosynthesis. CAM plants have higher water use efficiency, representing an important physiological adaptation that allows these plants to occupy habits characterized by intermittent water availability, such as the epiphytic niche. This project has a major goal to study t…

  Competence for Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) expression in epiphytic bromeliad: signaling, modulation of expression, transcriptional profile and interaction with the nitrogen metabolism, AP.TEM

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• Abstract

  Works concerning tropical forests have improved knowledge about their role in worldwide biodiversity conservancy and source of environmental services essential to human life. In this context, Atlantic Forest (AF) has a remarkable importance in Brazil. The forest is considered one of the 5 major global hotspots. Located near the largest national urban centers, it provides environmental ser…

  Leaf venation in tree species along a human-disturbance gradient of Atlantic Forest, SP., BP.DR

• Abstract

  Human modified tropical forests (HMTF) present several changes like habitat and biodiversity loss, fragmentation and climate changes, which directly affects hydrological cycle. Water availability is one of the most important factors in structure and functioning of an ecosystem. The Atlantic Forest is one of the world's hotspots of biodiversity, however, its land use and human ocupation le…

  Functional traits associated with drought tolerance in a disturbance gradient of Atlantic Forest., BP.MS

• Abstract

  The phytosociological and floristic research made in the Atlantic Forest were much enhanced during the last decade and shows a difference at the dispersion, structure and function of the various floristic formations that compose the Atlantic Forest. Forest succession researches indicate that the forests compose a physiognomy mosaic associated to the forest regeneration: gap phase, seconda…

  Ecophysiology of nitrogen use in tree species of Araucaria Mixed Forest, State Park Campos do Jordao, Brazil, BP.MS

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)