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Title: Species richness, composition, and spatial distribution of vascular epiphytes in Amazonian black-water floodplain forests
Authors: Quaresma, Adriano Costa
Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez
Wittmann, Florian Karl
ter Steege, H.
Keywords: Abundance
Colonization
Dominance
Epiphyte
Floodplain
Spatial Distribution
Species Richness
Vascular Plant
Vertical Distribution
Vine
Wetland
Amazonas
Jau National Park
Issue Date: 2018
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: Biodiversity and Conservation
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Volume 27, Número 8, Pags. 1981-2002
Abstract: This study examines the occurrence of vascular epiphytic species in Central Amazonian black-water floodplain forests (igapó) and considers whether their horizontal and vertical distribution is influenced by the flood pulse, as is the case with tree species (phorophytes). Research was conducted in sixteen forest plots the Jaú National Park. In these, epiphytes on all phorophytes with DBH ≥ 10 cm were identified. We measured flood height using the watermark left by the last high-water period, then estimated the height relative to the ground of every epiphytic individual. We recorded 653 individuals in 37 species, distributed on 109 phorophytes. Igapó floodplain forests have much lower richness and abundance of vascular epiphyte species than do other Amazonian forests. This may reflect the limitation of available sites for colonization (only 24.9% of studied trees were occupied by epiphytes). Holoepiphytes predominated, and the combined presence of a flood-pulse, linked to the nutrient-poor soil poor seems to limit the occurrence of nomadic vines. Horizontal distribution of epiphytes followed the distribution of phorophytes, which in turn followed the flood-level gradient. Also flooding interacted strongly with vertical zonation to determine species richness. As already well-reported for trees, and unlike reports of epiphytes in other floodplains, flooding strongly influenced richness and distribution of vascular epiphytes in the studied igapó forests. © 2018, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature.
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: 10.1007/s10531-018-1520-3
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