Figure 1
Location of the Brazilian Cerrado and its annual rainfall cycle. (a) Official limits of the Cerrado and other Brazilian ecoregions. (b) Monthly means of total rainfall (gray bars) and the frequency of rainy days (black line) in Cerrado between 1960 and 1990 (here considered as period reference), where the values were calculated by the average of all 70 pluviometric stations used in this study. The acronyms WS, BDS, DS, and BWS represent the Wet Season, Beginning of Dry Season, Dry Season, and Beginning of Wet Season, respectively. (c) Panoramic view of the Cerrado vegetation during the dry season, near Terra Ronca State Park (state of Goiás). The map in the upper level was produced using ArcGIS (https://www.arcgis.com).
