Publications

2026

Tavares, J. et al. 2026. Family imprint reveals basin-wide patterns of Amazon forest embolism resistance. Nature Communications.

Lenza, E., Klink, C., Maracahipes, L., Gomes, L., Scalon, M.C., Bustamante, M. and Silvério, D., 2026. Soil water availability and climate drive leaf demography of woody plants in the Brazilian savanna. Annals of Botany. DOI | PDF

2025

da Cruz, W.J.A., Marimon, B.S., Junior, B.H.M., Morandi, P.S., Longhi, S.G., Prestes, N.C.C.D.S., Júnior, N.G.R., Reis, S.M., Scalon, M.C., de Oliveira, E.A. and Levesley, A., 2025. Functional Biogeography and Ecological Strategies of Trees Across the Amazon–Cerrado Transition. Journal of Vegetation Science, 36(5), p.e70076. DOI | PDF

Ajala-Batista, L., Yamamoto, F.Y., Padovan, M., Scalon, M.C., Grassi, M.T., Abessa, D.M.D.S. and Fávaro, L.F., 2025. A pretty kettle of fish: Contamination of fish from the Doce River basin after the world’s largest mining disaster and associated human health risks. Total Environment Advances, p.200137. DOI

Huang, X.Y., Zhang, Y.B., Scalon, M.C., Ke, Y., Li, W.H., Yang, D., Aritsara, A.N., Zhang, Y.J., Wan, Z.L., Cheng, X.L. and Zhang, J.L., 2025. Survival secrets of mistletoes: high drought tolerance in canopy habitats. Tree Physiology, 45(7), p.tpaf071. DOI | PDF

Scalon, M.C. and Rossatto, D.R., 2025. Challenging the’Immunity Hypothesis’: Primary or secondary parasitism as different survival strategies for the harlequin mistletoe Lysiana exocarpi (Behr) Tiegh. Flora, 323, p.152662. DOI | PDF

Zhang, Y.B., Huang, X.Y., Corrêa Scalon, M., Ke, Y., Liu, J.X., Wang, Q., Li, W.H., Yang, D., Ellsworth, D.S., Zhang, Y.J. and Zhang, J.L., 2025. Mistletoes have higher hydraulic safety but lower efficiency in xylem traits than their hosts. New Phytologist, 245(2), pp.607-624. DOI | PDF

2024

Silva, M.C., Teodoro, G.S., Junior, J.M.D.C., Bastos, S.S., Barbosa, J.P.R.A.D., de Castro, E.M., Scalon, M.C. and van den Berg, E., 2024. From leaves to the whole tree: Mistletoe effects on the productivity, water relations, and demography of a Neotropical savanna tree. Austral Ecology, 49(2), p.e13461. DOI | PDF

Scalon, M.C., Heilmeier, H. and Rossatto, D.R., 2024. Plant-plant parasitism: Trends in the last 50 years and a call for papers for a special issue in Flora. Flora, 310, p.152438. DOI | PDF

2023

Araújo, I., Scalon, M.C., Amorim, I., Menor, I.O., Cruz, W.J., Reis, S.M., Simioni, P.F. and Marimon, B.S., 2023. Morpho-anatomical traits and leaf nutrient concentrations vary between plant communities in the Cerrado–Amazonia transition?. Flora, 306, p.152366. DOI | PDF

Tavares, J.V., Oliveira, R.S., Mencuccini, M., Signori-Müller, C., Pereira, L., Diniz, F.C., Gilpin, M., Marca Zevallos, M.J., Salas Yupayccana, C.A., Acosta, M. and Pérez Mullisaca, F.M., 2023. Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests. Nature, 617(7959), pp.111-117. DOI | PDF

Zhang, Y.B., Corrêa Scalon, M., Liu, J.X., Song, X.Y., Yang, D., Zhang, Y.J., Ellsworth, D.S. and Zhang, J.L., 2023. You are what you eat: nutrient and water relations between mistletoes and hosts. New Phytologist, 238(2), pp.567-583. DOI | PDF

de Antonio, A.C., Scalon, M.C. and Rossatto, D.R., 2023. Leaf size and thickness are related to frost damage in ground layer species of Neotropical savannas. Flora, 299, p.152208. DOI | PDF

2022

Scalon, M.C., Oliveras Menor, I., Freitag, R., Peixoto, K.S., Rifai, S.W., Marimon, B.S., Marimon Junior, B.H. and Malhi, Y., 2022. Contrasting strategies of nutrient demand and use between savanna and forest ecosystems in a neotropical transition zone. Biogeosciences, 19(15), pp.3649-3661. DOI | PDF

Bauters, M., Grau, O., Doetterl, S., Heineman, K.D., Dalling, J.W., Prada, C.M., Griepentrog, M., Malhi, Y., Riutta, T., Scalon, M. and Oliveras, I., 2022. Tropical wood stores substantial amounts of nutrients, but we have limited understanding why. Biotropica, 54(3), pp.596-606. DOI | PDF

Jancoski, H. S., Schwantes Marimon, B., C. Scalon, M., de V. Barros, F., Marimon‐Junior, B.H., Carvalho, E., S. Oliveira, R. and Oliveras Menor, I., 2022. Distinct leaf water potential regulation of tree species and vegetation types across the Cerrado–Amazonia transition. Biotropica, 54(2), pp.431-443. DOI | PDF

Scalon, M.C., Bohn, A., Coelho, G.C., Meister, L., Alves, R.D.F., Secco, R.T., Zwiener, V.P., Marcilio-Silva, V., Trindade, W.C. and Marques, M.C., 2022. Relationship between growth trajectories and functional traits for woody trees in a secondary tropical forest. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 5, p.754656. DOI | PDF

2021

Scalon, M.C. and Rossatto, D.R., 2021. Ground layer Cerrado plants sustain higher maximum photosynthetic rates after medium-term fire events. Flora, 285, p.151962. DOI | PDF

Carrijo, J.N., Maracahipes, L., Scalon, M.C., Silvério, D.V., Abadia, A.C., Fagundes, M.V., Verissimo, A.A., Goncalves, L.A., Carrijo, D., Martins, J. and Lenza, E., 2021. Functional traits as indicators of ecological strategies of savanna woody species under contrasting substrate conditions. Flora, 284, p.151925. DOI | PDF

Scalon, M.C., Rossatto, D.R., Oliveras, I., Miatto, R.C., Gray, E.F., Domingos, F.M.C.B., Brum, F.T., Carlucci, M.B., Hoffmann, W.A., Marimon-Júnior, B.H. and Marimon, B.S., 2021. Fire and drought: shifts in bark investment across a broad geographical scale for Neotropical savanna trees. Basic and Applied Ecology, 56, pp.110-121. DOI | PDF

Zanin, A., Scalon, M.C., Ferreira, P.C., da Silva, A.K., Martin, F.A., Rosa, G., da Silva, I.G., Kropiwiec, I.S., da Costa, L.L., de Moraes, L.S.C. and Klein, N.S., 2021. Que direção seguir? Melhor nenhuma!. Genética na Escola, 16(2), pp.474-487. DOI | PDF

Preuss, G., Mauad, A.V.S.R., Kitamura, R.S.A., de Assis, T.S., Scalon, M.C. and Domingos, F.M.C.B., 2021. Lurking in the depth: Pond depth predicts microhabitat selection by Rhinella icterica (Anura: Bufonidae) tadpoles at two different sampling scales. Herpetozoa, 34, pp.149-158. DOI

Scalon, M.C., Rossatto, D.R. and Franco, A.C., 2021. How does mistletoe infection affect seasonal physiological responses of hosts with different leaf phenology?. Flora, 281, p.151871. DOI | PDF

Araújo, I., Marimon, B.S., Scalon, M.C., Cruz, W.J., Fauset, S., Vieira, T.C., Galbraith, D.R. and Gloor, M.U., 2021. Intraspecific variation in leaf traits facilitates the occurrence of trees at the Amazonia–Cerrado transition. Flora, 279, p.151829. DOI | PDF

Araújo, I., Marimon, B.S., Scalon, M.C., Fauset, S., Junior, B.H.M., Tiwari, R., Galbraith, D.R. and Gloor, M.U., 2021. Trees at the Amazonia-Cerrado transition are approaching high temperature thresholds. Environmental Research Letters, 16(3), p.034047. DOI | PDF

2020

Kattge, J., Bönisch, G., Díaz, S., Lavorel, S., Prentice, I.C., Leadley, P., Tautenhahn, S., Werner, G.D., Aakala, T., Abedi, M. and Acosta, A.T., 2020. TRY plant trait database–enhanced coverage and open access. Global change biology, 26(1), pp.119-188. DOI | PDF

Scalon, M. C., Maia Chaves Bicalho Domingos, F., Jonatar Alves da Cruz, W., Marimon Júnior, B.H., Schwantes Marimon, B. and Oliveras, I., 2020. Diversity of functional trade‐offs enhances survival after fire in Neotropical savanna species. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31(1), pp.139-150. DOI | PDF

De Antonio, A.C., Scalon, M.C. and Rossatto, D.R., 2020. The role of bud protection and bark density in frost resistance of savanna trees. Plant Biology, 22(1), pp.55-61. DOI | PDF

Before 2020

Jancoski, H.S., Pinto, J.R.R., Nogueira, D.S., Mews, H.A., Abad, J.C.S., Scalon, M.C. and Marimon, B.S., 2019. Fine-scale effects of fire on non-woody species in a southern Amazonian seasonal wetland. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 27(2), pp.267-281. DOI | PDF

Wright, I.J., Cooke, J., Cernusak, L.A., Hutley, L.B., Scalon, M.C., Tozer, W.C. and Lehmann, C.E., 2019. Stem diameter growth rates in a fire‐prone savanna correlate with photosynthetic rate and branch‐scale biomass allocation, but not specific leaf area. Austral Ecology, 44(2), pp.339-350. DOI | PDF

Souza, M.C., Scalon, M.C., Poschenrieder, C., Tolrà, R., Venâncio, T., Teixeira, S.P. and Da Costa, F.B., 2018. Aluminium detoxification in facultative (Passovia ovata (Pohl ex DC.) Kuijt and Struthanthus polyanthus Mart.-Loranthaceae) and dependent (Psittacanthus robustus (Mart.) Marloth-Loranthaceae) Al-accumulating mistletoe species from the Brazilian savanna. Phytochemistry, 153, pp.58-63. DOI | PDF

Souza, M.C., Scalon, M.C., Poschenrieder, C., Tolrà, R., Venâncio, T., Teixeira, S.P. and Da Costa, F.B., 2018. Mechanisms of storage and detoxification of Al in two tropical mistletoes. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 150, pp.37-45. DOI | PDF

Scalon, M.C., Haridasan, M. and Franco, A.C., 2017. Influence of long-term nutrient manipulation on specific leaf area and leaf nutrient concentrations in savanna woody species of contrasting leaf phenologies. Plant and Soil, 421(1), pp.233-244. DOI | PDF

Scalon, M.C. and Wright, I.J., 2017. Leaf trait adaptations of xylem-tapping mistletoes and their hosts in sites of contrasting aridity. Plant and Soil, 415(1), pp.117-130. DOI | PDF

Scalon, M.C., Alves dos Reis, S. and Rossatto, D.R., 2017. Shifting from acquisitive to conservative: the effects of Phoradendron affine (Santalaceae) infection in leaf morpho-physiological traits of a Neotropical tree species. Australian Journal of Botany, 65(1), pp.31-37. DOI | PDF

Scalon, M.C., Wright, I.J. and Franco, A.C., 2017. To recycle or steal? Nutrient resorption in Australian and Brazilian mistletoes from three low‐phosphorus sites. Oikos, 126(1), pp.32-39. DOI | PDF

Scalon, M.C., Rossatto, D.R., Domingos, F.M.C.B. and Franco, A.C., 2016. Leaf morphophysiology of a Neotropical mistletoe is shaped by seasonal patterns of host leaf phenology. Oecologia, 180(4), pp.1103-1112. DOI | PDF

Scalon, M.C. and Wright, I.J., 2015. A global analysis of water and nitrogen relationships between mistletoes and their hosts: broad‐scale tests of old and enduring hypotheses. Functional Ecology, 29(9), pp.1114-1124. DOI | PDF

Scalon, M.C., Rossatto, D.R. and Franco, A.C., 2014. Do litter manipulations affect leaf functional traits of savanna woody plants?. Plant ecology, 215(1), pp.111-120. DOI | PDF

Scalon, M.C., Haridasan, M. and Franco, A.C., 2013. A comparative study of aluminium and nutrient concentrations in mistletoes on aluminium‐accumulating and non‐accumulating hosts. Plant Biology, 15(5), pp.851-857. DOI | PDF