Ecologia de plântulas de Pithecolobium racemosum Ducke. 1 - Número de distribuição dos individuos

Abstract

Seedlings of Pithecolobium racemosum are found in different quantities in areas with different degrees of disturbance. In the more disturbed areas the tendency is for an increase in the number of seedlings, and intensity. In all of the types of areas studied, the seedlings are agregated with the type or agregation varying with the amount of disturbance. Populationwise, however, the seedlings have the some behavior with all degrees of disturbance with higher number of seedlings under the parent trees with little or no variation in population size when comparing the two yaers of observations. Thus, it is concluded that P. racemosum behaves as a shade-intolerant species or a forest-clearing colonier.