pasture grasses invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis: fire effects on

Cite this article: Silve´rio DV, Brando PM,Balch JK, Putz FE, Nepstad DC, Oliveira-SantosC, Bustamante MMC. 2013 Testing the Amazonsavannization hypothesis: fire effects on inva-sion of a neotropical forest by native cerradoand exotic pasture grasses. Phil Trans R Soc B368: 20120427.http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0427One contribution of 18 to a Theme Issue‘Ecology, economy, and management of anagroindustrial frontier landscape in thesoutheast Amazon’.Subject Areas:ecology, environmental science, plant scienceKeywords:Amazon, tropical, grass invasion, grass–firecycle, non-native grasses, savannah–forestboundariesAuthor for correspondence:Divino V. Silve´rioe-mail: dvsilverio@gmail.comElectronic supplementary material is availableat http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0427 orvia http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org.