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Gerhard E. Overbeck is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science with substantial contributions to Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their work spans several subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Plant Science. The main topics addressed encompass Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Plant and Animal Studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Environmental and Biological Studies.

Frequent publication venues for their research include Restoration Ecology, Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Science, and Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • Understanding Brazil's catastrophic fires: Causes, consequences and policy needed to prevent future tragedies, 2021, Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
  • Distance decay 2.0 - A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities, 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Placing Brazil's grasslands and savannas on the map of science and conservation, 2022, Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • Long-term ecological research in southern Brazil grasslands: Effects of grazing exclusion and deferred grazing on plant and arthropod communities, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • A research agenda for the restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas, 2020, Restoration Ecology

Gerhard E. Overbeck collaborates frequently with several researchers in their field. Coauthors with whom they have published extensively include Valério D. Pillar, Luciana da Silva Menezes, Ana Boeira Porto, Sandra Cristina Müller, and Pedro Augusto Thomas.

Best Publications

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Brazil's neglected biome: The South Brazilian Campos

    Gerhard E. Overbeck;Sandra C. Müller;Alessandra Fidelis;Jörg Pfadenhauer

  • Where Tree Planting and Forest Expansion are Bad for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    Joseph W. Veldman;Gerhard E. Overbeck;Daniel Negreiros;Gregory Mahy

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

    Joseph W Veldman;Elise Buisson;Giselda Durigan;G Wilson Fernandes;G Wilson Fernandes

  • Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Jason Pither;Anke Jentsch;Marcelo Sternberg

  • Understanding Brazil’s catastrophic fires: Causes, consequences and policy needed to prevent future tragedies

    Vânia R. Pivello;Ima Vieira;Alexander V. Christianini;Danilo Bandini Ribeiro

  • Conservation in Brazil needs to include non‐forest ecosystems

    Gerhard E. Overbeck;Eduardo Vélez‐Martin;Fabio R. Scarano;Thomas M. Lewinsohn

  • Resilience and restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and grassy woodlands.

    Elise Buisson;Soizig Le Stradic;Soizig Le Stradic;Fernando A. O. Silveira;Giselda Durigan

  • Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”

    Joseph W. Veldman;Julie C. Aleman;Julie C. Aleman;Swanni T. Alvarado;T. Michael Anderson

  • sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Oliver Purschke

  • Grassland degradation and restoration: a conceptual framework of stages and thresholds illustrated by southern Brazilian grasslands

    Bianca O. Andrade;Christiane Koch;Christiane Koch;Ilsi I. Boldrini;Eduardo Vélez-Martin

  • Tyranny of trees in grassy biomes

    Joseph W. Veldman;Gerhard E. Overbeck;Daniel Negreiros;Gregory Mahy

  • Why Brazil needs its Legal Reserves

    Jean Paul Metzger;Mercedes M. C Bustamante;Joice Ferreira;Geraldo Wilson Fernandes

  • Plant functional types of woody species related to fire disturbance in forest-grassland ecotones

    Sandra C. Müller;Gerhard E. Overbeck;Jörg Pfadenhauer;Valério D. Pillar

  • Fine-scale post-fire dynamics in southern Brazilian subtropical grassland

    Gerhard Ernst Overbeck;Sandra Cristina Müller;Valério DePatta Pillar;Jörg Pfadenhauer

  • Step back from the forest and step up to the Bonn Challenge: How a broad ecological perspective can promote successful landscape restoration

    Vicky M. Temperton;Nina Buchmann;Elise Buisson;Giselda Durigan

  • Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities

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  • Classification of South Brazilian grasslands: Implications for conservation

    Bianca O. Andrade;Camila L. Bonilha;Gerhard E. Overbeck;Eduardo Vélez‐Martin

  • A primer on choosing goals and indicators to evaluate ecological restoration success

    Karel Prach;Giselda Durigan;Siobhan Fennessy;Gerhard E. Overbeck

  • Adaptive strategies in burned subtropical grassland in southern Brazil

    Gerhard Ernst Overbeck;Jörg Pfadenhauer

  • Integrating ecosystem functions into restoration ecology—recent advances and future directions

    Johannes Kollmann;Sebastian T. Meyer;Rolf Bateman;Timo Conradi;Timo Conradi

Frequent Co-Authors

Valério D. Pillar
Valério D. Pillar Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Johannes Kollmann
Johannes Kollmann Technical University of Munich
Giselda Durigan
Giselda Durigan State University of Campinas
Elise Buisson
Elise Buisson University of Avignon
William J. Bond
William J. Bond University of Cape Town
Sandra Díaz
Sandra Díaz National University of Córdoba
Peter Manning
Peter Manning University of Bergen
Anke Jentsch
Anke Jentsch University of Bayreuth
Marcelo Cabido
Marcelo Cabido National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich

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