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For plants facing climate change, staying alive beats reproducing

Media from our paper in Nature Communications
Demography
Modelling
Plant ecology
Climate change
Media highlights

What makes some plant populations more resilient than others to year-to-year environmental change? Not reproduction or growth, but simply surviving: and it depends most on aridity, not temperature

Jul 22, 2026
Gabriel Santos

Disponibilidade de água exerce maior influência na sobrevivência das plantas do que o aumento da temperatura

Estudo publicado na revista Nature Communications avaliou a resiliência das espécies vegetais no contexto das mudanças climáticas
Demography
Modelling
Plant ecology
Climate change
Media highlights

Portuguese version of midia highlight produced by Oxford Communications

Jul 22, 2026
Gabriel Santos

Nature communications is finally out!

In this paper we used a sexy metric to assess the population response to environmental variability. Spoiler: Life-history traits are very little important when phylogeny is accounted! Check the details!
Demography
Modelling
Plant ecology
Climate change
Media highlights
Jun 6, 2026
Gabriel Santos

MOSAIC: an integrative trait to demographic analyses

MOSAIC is a trait database designed by and for comparative demographers.MOSAIC contains existing databases + new data records for >300 species of animals and plants.MOSAIC makes available behavior, morphometry, habitat, functional traits, and other data available
Demography
Functional traits
Database
Open science
Oct 30, 2025
Gabriel Santos
 

Lack of biodiversity studies hinders the management of conservation units

Protected areas
Management plan
Atlantic rainforest
Mata Atlântica
Conservation
The scarcity of comprehensive biodiversity data severely limits the effectiveness of environmental management within Brazil’s protected areas. Without consistent scientific…
Mar 13, 2024
Gabriel Santos
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