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Title: | Effects of the Flooding Gradient on Tree Community Diversity in Várzea Forests of the Purus River, Central Amazon, Brazil |
Authors: | Luize, Bruno Garcia Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire Wittmann, Florian Karl Assis, Rafael L. Venticinque, Eduardo Martins |
Keywords: | Environmental Gradient Flooding Floodplain Landscape Species Diversity Tree Wetland Amazonia Purus River Nia |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: | Biotropica |
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Volume 47, Número 2, Pags. 137-142 |
Abstract: | Amazonian floodplain forests have remarkable variation in tree diversity and structure related to flood duration. We assessed how floodplain forests respond to the continuum flooding gradient and found that Fisher's α values vary up to seven times across the landscape. Resumo: Florestas de várzea da Amazônia apresenta uma variação expressiva na diversidade de árvores e na estrutura florestal relacionada com a duração da inundação. Nós medimos como as florestas de várzea do Purus respondem a variação continua e gradual na inundação e encontramos que apenas atributos de diversidade responderam significativamente, sendo que os valores de Fisher's α variaram até sete vezes ao longo da paisagem. © 2015 The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. |
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1111/btp.12203 |
Appears in Collections: | Artigos |
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