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Without proper management, Cerrado becomes disfigured and less resilient to climate change - EurekAlert


A study conducted over a period of 14 years in the Brazilian savanna-like biome shows its typical vegetation rapidly becoming ‘cerradão’ – a biodiversity-poor forest formation – while resistance to drought and wildfires weakens.

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