O Cerrado é o segundo maior bioma sul-americano e a savana mais rica e ameaçada do mundo. Caracterizado por um mosaico de formações vegetais naturais (florestas, savanas e campos) com influência da sazonalidade climática, a classificação desse bioma por imagens de...

Severe droughts may alter the reproductive phenology of tropical tree species, but our understanding of these effects has been hampered by confounded variation in drought, light and other factors during natural drought events. We used a large-scale experimental reduction of throughfall in an easterncentral Amazon forest to study the phenological response to drought of an abundant subcanopy tree, Coussarea racemosa. We hypothesized that drought would alter the production and the timing of reproduction, as well as the number of viable fruits.