image: Savanna degraded by fire suppression. Without regular burning, trees have encroached upon the savanna and this site is well on its way to becoming a cerradão forest. Light-demanding savanna species are declining, and many are no longer present. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 30, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R.C.R. Abreu at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, and colleagues was titled, 'The biodiversity cost of carbon sequestration in tropical savanna.' view more
Credit: [Credit: William A. Hoffmann]