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Provedor de dados: | 88
País: | Brazil
Título: | Community structure of vascular plants in treefall gaps and fire-disturbed habitats in the Atlantic rainforest, southern Bahia, Brazil
Autores: | Martini,Adriana Maria Zanforlin; Santos,Flavio Antonio Maës dos; Prado,Paulo Inácio; Jardim,Jomar Gomes.
Data: | 2007-06-01
Ano: | 2007
Palavras-chave: | Atlantic forest; Fire; Growth habits; Natural treefall gaps; Species richness.
Resumo: | The effects of disturbances on plant community structure in tropical forests have been widely investigated. However, a majority of these studies examined only woody species, principally trees, whereas the effects of disturbances on the whole assemblage of vascular plants remain largely unexplored. At the present study, all vascular plants &lt; 5m tall were surveyed in four habitats: natural treefall gaps, burned forest, and their adjacent understorey. The burned area differed from the other habitats in terms of species composition. However, species richness and plant density did not differ between burned area and the adjacent understorey, which is in accordance to the succession model that predict a rapid recovery of species richness, but with a different species composition in areas under moderate disturbance. The treefall gaps and the two areas of understorey did not differ among themselves in terms of the number of individuals, number of species, nor in species composition. The absence of differences between the vegetation in treefall gaps and in understorey areas seems to be in agreement with the current idea that the species present in treefall gaps are directly related to the vegetation composition before gap formation. Only minimal differences were observed between the analyses that considered only tree species and those that considered all growth habits. This suggests that the same processes acting on tree species (the best studied group of plants in tropical forests) are also acting on the whole assemblage of vascular plants in these communities.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-84042007000200014
Editor: | Sociedade Botânica de São Paulo
Relação: | 10.1590/S0100-84042007000200014
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Botany  v.30 n.2 2007
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess