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| Provedor de dados: |
Acta Botanica
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
Do seedling functional groups reflect ecological strategies of woody plant species in Caatinga?
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| Autores: |
Menezes,Tatiane Gomes Calaça
Rodal,Maria Jesus Nogueira
Lima,André Luiz Alves de
Lima,Lucivania Rodrigues
Pinto,Monalisa Alves Diniz S. C.
Melo,André Laurênio de
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| Data: |
2018-03-01
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| Ano: |
2018
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| Palavras-chave: |
Dry forest
Environmental filtering
Functional traits
Initial establishment
Recruitment
Seasonality
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| Resumo: |
ABSTRACT It is assumed that morphological traits of seedlings reflect different strategies in response to environmental conditions. The ecological significance of this has been widely documented in rainforests, where habitat structure and species interactions play an important role in community assembly. However, in seasonally dry ecosystems, where environmental filtering is expected to strongly influence community structure, this relationship is poorly understood. We investigated this relationship between functional groups of seedlings and life history traits and tested whether functional group predicts the ecological strategies employed by woody species to deal with the stressful conditions in seasonally dry ecosystems. Seedling functional groups, life history traits and traits that reflect ecological strategies for occupying seasonally dry environments were described for twenty-six plant species. Seedlings of species from the Caatinga vegetation exhibited a functional profile different from that observed in rainforests ecosystems. Phanerocotylar-epigeal seedlings were the most frequently observed groups, and had the largest range of ecological strategies related to dealing with seasonally dry environments, while phanerocotylar-hypogeal-reserve seedlings exhibited an increase in frequency with seasonality. We discuss these results in relation to those observed in other tropical forests and their ecological significance in seasonally dry environments.
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Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062018000100020
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| Editor: |
Sociedade Botânica do Brasil
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| Relação: |
10.1590/0102-33062017abb0198
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text/html
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| Fonte: |
Acta Botanica Brasilica v.32 n.1 2018
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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