Effects of the flooding gradient on tree community diversity in varzea forests of the purus river, central Amazon, Brazil

Luize, Bruno Garcia; Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire; Wittmann, Florian; Assis, Rafael Leandro de; Venticinque, Eduardo Martins

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Title:

Effects of the flooding gradient on tree community diversity in varzea forests of the purus river, central Amazon, Brazil

Author(s):

Institution:

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônio (INPA)
Instituto Piagaçu
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFNR)
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

ISSN:

0006-3606

Sponsorship:

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Sponsorship Process Number:

CNPq: 131757/2008-3
CNPq: 307997/2009-0
CNPq: 479599/2008-4
CNPq: 550373/2010-1
FAPESP: 2010/11269-2

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 values vary up to seven times across the landscape.

Issue Date:

1-Mar-2015

Citation:

Biotropica. Hoboken: Wiley-blackwell, v. 47, n. 2, p. 137-142, 2015.

Time Duration:

137-142

Publisher:

Wiley-Blackwell

Keywords:

Environmental gradient
Flood pulse
Floodplain forests
Wetlands

Source:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.12203/abstract

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Type:

outro

Source:

http://repositorio.unesp.br/handle/11449/129056

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