International Joint Reseach Group: Research Consortium on Functional Ecology and Conservation of Cerrado Plants Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The extremely species-‐rich flora of the Cerrado is threatened by land reclamation, environmental changes and exotic plant invasions. The joint research consortium will study the unctional ecology of native and invasive Cerrado plants in relation to availabilities of growth-‐limiting resources (water, nitrogen, phosphorus) under conditions of multiple species interactions (plant-‐plant, plant-‐microbe, plant-‐pollinator, ...