While the world has its eyes on the burning of the Amazon rainforest, an article by Brazilian researchers published in Nature Sustainability, one of the world's most prestigious journals, offers the country another good reason to keep it standing. The study quantified a portion of the ecosystem services...

On May 28, 2019, the journal Nature Climate Change (Impact Factor 19,181) published an article referring to the delay of the rainy season in the Amazon with reference to the study developed at UFV by Argemiro Teixeira under the guidance of Professor Marcos Heil Costa. More details on Amazon rain research...

Professor Marcos Heil Costa, from the UFV Department of Agricultural Engineering, is among the 15 honored personalities, with the "Antônio Secundino São José" Commendation, the highest honor granted by the Minas Gerais state government, to those who contribute to the development...

Professor Marcos Heil Costa, from UFV's Department of Agricultural Engineering, has just been appointed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). of the United Nations.

Climate, fire and soil nutrient limitation are important elements that affect vegetation dynamics in areas of the forest–savanna transition. In this paper, we use the dynamic vegetation model INLAND to evaluate the influence of interannual climate variability, fire and phosphorus (P) limitation...

Response of South American Terrestrial Ecosystems to Future Patterns of Sea Surface Temperature.

Sources of water vapor to economically relevant regions in Amazonia and the effect of deforestation.

Nosso grupo de pesquisas teve recentemente um paper aceito para publicação na Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, com o título Increased climate risk in Brazilian double cropping agriculture systems: Implications for land use in Northern Brazil.  O trabalho trata de...

  Patterns of land use, extensification, and intensification of Brazilian agriculture Agriculture in Brazil is becoming more sustainable.  

This special issue deals with different aspects of the interactions between land and atmosphere, using observations and modeling.