Concept
Cerradão
Also known as: cerradão, cerrado woodland, dense savanna woodland
The closed-woodland extreme of the Cerrado gradient — a near-continuous canopy of taller trees on the biome's deeper, less fire-exposed soils. Structurally a forest, floristically still savanna: cerradão is where the Cerrado is most often mistaken for degraded Amazon and most readily cleared.
Cerradão is the closed-woodland end of the [[cerrado|Cerrado]] gradient — savanna grown up into something that looks like forest.
What’s distinctive
On the biome’s deeper, more fertile, or more fire-sheltered soils the canopy closes to 50–90% cover and trees reach 8–15 metres. The grass layer thins under the shade. To the eye it is a dry forest; floristically it is still Cerrado, sharing most of its species with [[cerrado-sensu-stricto|typical cerrado]] rather than with the Amazon.
That resemblance is dangerous. Cerradão is the physiognomy most often dismissed as “scrub forest” or mistaken for degraded rainforest, and its better soils make it the first chosen for mechanised conversion. Much of the Cerrado already lost was cerradão.
Why this entry
Cerradão closes the gradient with [[campo-limpo|campo limpo]] and [[cerrado-sensu-stricto|cerrado sensu stricto]], and carries the specific warning that the Cerrado’s most forest-like face is its most threatened. It frames why standing-tree [[extractivism|extractive]] economies matter most exactly here.
See also
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- Shares approach with: [[cerrado-sensu-stricto]] · [[campo-limpo]]
- Contained by: [[cerrado]]
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Scientific
shares approach with
- Cerrado sensu stricto the closed-woodland end of the same density gradient
contains
- Cerrado the closed-woodland end of the structural gradient
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