All Stories

  1. Functional structure of an herbaceous community on a natural regeneration gradient in a seasonally dry tropical forest

    Article • Acta Oecologica, May 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  2. Tree height, leaf thickness and seed size drive Caatinga plants' sensitivity to climate change

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, September 2023, Wiley

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  3. The stress gradient hypothesis explains plant-plant interaction networks in edapho climatic gradients

    Article • Acta Oecologica, August 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  4. Functional rarity and evolutionary uniqueness of threatened species across different scales and habitats in a Central European flora

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, July 2022, Wiley

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  5. High endemism of cacti remains unprotected in the Caatinga

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  6. Phylogenetic relatedness and competition: a pot experiment with semiarid tree species

    Article • CERNE, January 2022, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  7. Estimated degradation of the Caatinga based on modern pollen rain deposited in reservoirs

    Article • January 2022, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  8. Breaking the misconception of a dry and lifeless semiarid region: the diversity and distribution of aquatic flora in wetlands of the Brazilian Northeast

    Article • Acta Botanica Brasilica, March 2021, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  9. Contrasting Relationship of True Weevils (Curculionidae) and Woody Plants Diversity in Semi-arid Landscape Units

    Article • Neotropical Entomology, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  10. Water availability mediates functional shifts across ontogenetic stages in a regenerating seasonally dry tropical forest

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, April 2020, Wiley

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  11. TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

    Article • Global Change Biology, December 2019, Wiley

    Tereza Mašková, Piermaria Corona, Matteo Dainese, Dr. Frederic Lens, Dr Julia C Sfair, Dr David YP Tng, Dr Fabio Carvalho, Katarina Cufar, Péter Török

  12. Plant functional assembly is mediated by rainfall and soil conditions in a seasonally dry tropical forest

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, August 2019, Elsevier

    Bruno Pinho, Dr Julia C Sfair

  13. Multiple drivers of aboveground biomass in a human-modified landscape of the Caatinga dry forest

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, March 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  14. Depauperation and divergence of plant-specialist herbivore assemblages in a fragmented tropical landscape

    Article • Ecological Entomology, November 2018, Wiley

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  15. A framework for deriving measures of chronic anthropogenic disturbance: Surrogate, direct, single and multi-metric indices in Brazilian Caatinga

    Article • Ecological Indicators, November 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  16. Chronic human disturbance affects plant trait distribution in a seasonally dry tropical forest

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, February 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  17. Bryophyte richness of soil islands on rocky outcrops is not driven by island size or habitat heterogeneity

    Article • Acta Botanica Brasilica, January 2018, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  18. Different trait arrangements can blur the significance of ecological drivers of community assembly of mosses from rocky outcrops

    Article • Flora, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  19. Species traits and abundance influence the organization of liana-tree antagonistic interaction

    Article • Austral Ecology, November 2017, Wiley

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  20. Plant Knowledge and Current Uses of Woody Flora in Three Cultural Groups of the Brazilian Semiarid Region: Does Culture Matter?

    Article • Economic Botany, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  21. Taxonomic and functional divergence of tree assemblages in a fragmented tropical forest

    Article • Ecological Applications, September 2016, Wiley

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  22. The effects of environmental constraints on plant community organization depend on which traits are measured

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, August 2016, Wiley

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  23. Does phylogeny have a role in the liana-phorophyte interaction in tropical forests?

    Article • Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, August 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  24. Land use, fallow period and the recovery of a Caatinga forest

    Article • Biotropica, May 2016, Wiley

    Dr Julia C Sfair, Mellissa Sobrinho

  25. Phylogenetic interactions among lianas in a southeastern Brazilian semideciduous tropical forest

    Article • South African Journal of Botany, March 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  26. Theoretical approaches to liana management: a search for a less harmful method

    Article • International Journal of Biodiversity Science Ecosystems Services & Management, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  27. Weak phylogenetic signal for specialisation in antagonistic liana–tree networks

    Article • Plant Ecology & Diversity, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  28. Harvesting Increases Reproductive Activity inHimatanthus drasticus(Mart.) Plumel (Apocynaceae), a Non-Timber Forest Product of the Brazilian Savanna

    Article • Biotropica, April 2014, Wiley

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  29. A importância da luz na ocupação de árvores por lianas

    Article • Rodriguésia, June 2013, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Julia C Sfair

  30. Nested liana-tree network in three distinct neotropical vegetation formations

    Article • Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, November 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Julia C Sfair