Geraldo Wilson Fernandes

Research interests

Publications

• Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

  Science · 2021 · 10.1126/science.abh3629

• Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2019 · 10.1038/s41559-019-0882-6

• Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

  Science Advances · 2019 · 10.1126/sciadv.aau3114

• Why Brazil needs its Legal Reserves

  Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation · 2019 · 10.1016/j.pecon.2019.07.002

• Ecological restoration as a strategy for mitigating and adapting to climate change: lessons and challenges from Brazil

  Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change · 2019 · 10.1007/s11027-018-9837-5

• Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”

  Science · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay7976

• Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2018 · 10.1038/s41559-018-0559-6

• A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world‐wide

  Functional Ecology · 2016 · 10.1111/1365-2435.12722

• Deep into the mud: ecological and socio-economic impacts of the dam breach in Mariana, Brazil

  Natureza & Conservação · 2016 · 10.1016/j.ncon.2016.10.003

• Manipulation of host plant cells and tissues by gall-inducing insects and adaptive strategies used by different feeding guilds

  Journal of Insect Physiology · 2015 · 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2015.11.012

• Toward an old‐growth concept for grasslands, savannas, and woodlands

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2015 · 10.1890/140270

• CSR analysis of plant functional types in highly diverse tropical grasslands of harsh environments

  Plant Ecology · 2014 · 10.1007/s11258-014-0302-6

• Caatinga: The Scientific Negligence Experienced by a Dry Tropical Forest

  Tropical Conservation Science · 2011 · 10.1177/194008291100400306

• The mosaic of habitats in the high-altitude Brazilian rupestrian fields is a hotspot for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

  Applied Soil Ecology · 2011 · 10.1016/j.apsoil.2011.10.001

• Succession and management of tropical dry forests in the Americas: Review and new perspectives

  Forest Ecology and Management · 2009 · 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.06.023

• Ants on plants: a meta-analysis of the role of ants as plant biotic defenses

  Oecologia · 2009 · 10.1007/s00442-009-1309-x

• Are gall midge species (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) host-plant specialists?

  Revista Brasileira de Entomologia · 2009 · 10.1590/s0085-56262009000300010

• Size does matter: variation in herbivory between and within plants and the plant vigor hypothesis

  Oikos · 2008 · 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16588.x

• Erratum

  Annals of the Entomological Society of America · 2007 · 10.1603/0013-8746(2007)100[95:hmsogi]2.0.co;2

• Biodiversity of galling insects: historical, community and habitat effects in four neotropical savannas

  Biodiversity and Conservation · 2001 · 10.1023/a:1016602213305

• Global patterns in local number of insect galling species

  Journal of Biogeography · 1998 · 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1998.2530581.x

• Plant-Animal Interactions: Evolutionary Ecology in Tropical and Temperate Regions.

  Evolution · 1992 · 10.2307/2409966

• The adaptive significance of insect gall distribution: survivorship of species in xeric and mesic habitats

  Oecologia · 1992 · 10.1007/bf00317803

• Biogeographical gradients in galling species richness

  Oecologia · 1988 · 10.1007/bf00379948

• Adaptive Nature of Insect Galls

  Environmental Entomology · 1987 · 10.1093/ee/16.1.15

Current projects

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