Abstract The South American Cerrado, the largest savanna of the Americas and the world's most tree-biodiverse, is critically endangered, with just 8% protected and more than half deforested. However, the extent of its tree diversity and abundance remains poorly quantified. Using a unique biome-wide eco-floristic dataset with 222 one-hectare plots, we estimate the Cerrado has ~1605 tree species and has extreme hyperdominance, with fewer than 2% (30 species) accounting for half of all trees. A single family, Vochysi…

Abstract Aims Brosimum rubescens, a tree species with a Neotropical distribution, can achieve local monodominance in Southern Amazonia forests. Understanding how and why this species varies across space and time is important because the monodominance of some species alters ecosystems complexity. Here we evaluate the fundamental ecological niche of B. rubescens by species distribution models (SDM), combining predictive environmental variables with occurrence points. We specifically aim to 1) determine how the spati…

The LUC dataset of São Lourenço river basin, a major Pantanal wetland contribution area as provided by the 4^th edition of the Monitoring of Changes in Land cover and Land Use in the Upper Paraguay River Basin - Brazilian portion - Review Period: 2012 to 2014 (Embrapa Pantanal, Instituto SOS Pantanal, and WWF-Brasil 2015). For the development of the OpenLand R package (tests and vignettes), the original multi-year shape file was clipped to the extent of São Lourenço basin, transformed into a 5-layer <cod…

The LUC dataset of São Lourenço river basin, a major Pantanal wetland contribution area as provided by the 4^th edition of the Monitoring of Changes in Land cover and Land Use in the Upper Paraguay River Basin - Brazilian portion - Review Period: 2012 to 2014 (Embrapa Pantanal, Instituto SOS Pantanal, and WWF-Brasil 2015). For the development of the OpenLand R package (tests and vignettes), the original multi-year shape file was clipped to the extent of São Lourenço basin, transformed into a 5-layer <cod…