Vegetation and environmental heterogeneity relationships in a Neotropical swamp forest in southeastern Brazil (Itirapina, SP)

• Published in: Aquatic botany Vol. 94; no. 1; pp. 17 - 23
• Main Authors: de Pádua Teixeira, Aloysio, Assis, Marco Antonio, Luize, Bruno Garcia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 2011; Elsevier
• Subjects: Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Autoecology; Biological and medical sciences; Brazil; canopy; Canopy openness; Drainage pattern; environmental factors; Environmental heterogeneity; Flooding; Forestry; forests; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General forest ecology; Generalities. Production, biomass. Quality of wood and forest products. General forest ecology; plant communities; Plants and fungi; Riverine forest; soil chemical properties; Species diversity; swamps; tropics; Brazil; South America; America; Species diversity; Environmental heterogeneity; Canopy openness; Flooding; Drainage pattern; Riverine forest; Forests; Bogs; Tropical zone; Drainage patterns; Heterogeneity; Flood; Vegetation; Environment; Aquatic plant; Environrnental heterogeneity; Neotropical Region; Canopy(vegetation)

Patterns in substrate, canopy openness, tree species composition and structure were studied in a swamp forest in southeastern Brazil (Itirapina, SP), using a fine spatial scale (∼0.05 km 2). Sixty quadrats of 10 m × 10 m were divided into three sample plots, located in the centre and at both ends of...