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Provedor de dados: | 88
País: | Brazil
Título: | Reproductive phenology, pollination and seed dispersal syndromes on sandstone outcrop vegetation in the "Chapada Diamantina", northeastern Brazil: population and community analyses
Autores: | Conceição,Abel Augusto; Funch,Ligia Silveira; Pirani,José Rubens.
Data: | 2007-09-01
Ano: | 2007
Palavras-chave: | Flowering; Fruiting; Insular sandstone outcrop vegetation; Phenology; Syndromes.
Resumo: | Vegetation on rock outcrops in the "Chapada Diamantina" (soil islands) is often aggregated and surrounded by nude rock surfaces, thus creating natural units with well defined limits. The flowering and fruiting cycles of plants on 58 soil islands at altitudes between 1,100 and 1,140 meters above sea leavel were analyzed at Mãe Inácia Peak (12°27' S and 41°28' W) in the "Chapada Diamantina", Bahia, Brazil. The presence/absence of flowering and fruiting species on each soil island, and their respective cover areas were analyzed at both the population and community levels, and the phenophases of flowering and fruiting were observed during 24 successive months. The analyses of pollination and seed dispersal syndromes indicated that animals are more important in pollination than in seed dispersal (which is predominantly by anemochory and autochory). The flowering and fruiting of plants with animal pollination syndromes were correlated with rainfall and temperature. The flowering season varied during the year according to the pollination syndrome involved: entomophily was predominant from summer through autumn, ornithophily was predominant during winter, and anemophily in the spring. The staggered timing of flowering and fruiting among different species provides a nearly continuous supply of resources for the local fauna.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-84042007000300012
Editor: | Sociedade Botânica de São Paulo
Relação: | 10.1590/S0100-84042007000300012
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Botany  v.30 n.3 2007
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess