Structure of the tree community in stands of Araucaria forests, in São Paulo state, Brazil / Estrutura da comunidade arbórea de trechos de florestas de Araucaria no estado de São Paulo, Brasil

AUTOR(ES)

Rose Pereira Muniz de Souza

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The Ombrophilous Mixed Forest covered an ample area in the South and in part of the Southeast of Brazil. Since the 2Oth century, the increase of anthropic intervention has put the ecosystem in a critically threatened category and the Araucaria angustifolia (Bert.) O. Kuntze, the typical species of this ecosystem, in extinction prone. The goal of the present study was to describe and compare the tree community structure in distinct strata of the Ombrophilous Mixed Forest. We did phytossociological surveys in araucaria forests in the Campos do Jordão state park, Northeast of São Paulo state, and in the district of Barra do Chapéu, South of São Paulo state. To sample the upper stratum, we installed fifty 10x20 m plots, where all trees with perimeter at breast height (PBH) 15 cm were measured. To sample the lower stratum, into each upper stratum plot, were installed five 1x1 m sub-plots, where all the woody individuals from 30 cm high to PBH <15 cm were sampled. In the Campos do Jordão site, the upper stratum showed 1,918 individuals, distributed in 26 families, 38 genus and 58 species (H=3.08 and J=0.73); in the lower stratum we found 576 individuals, belonging to 23 families, 39 genus and 55 species (H=3.81 and J=0.84). In Barra do Chapéu site, we found in the upper stratum 1,879 individuals, distributed in 42 families, 81 genus and 123 species (H=3.81 and J=0.79); in the lower stratum, we sampled 915 individuals, belonging to 33 families, 50 genus and 74 species (H=3.44 and J=0.79). We did classification and ordination multivariate analysis to assess the floristic relationship between the existent Ombrophilous Mixed Forest remaining in the South and Southeast of Brazil. We did the same analysis to evaluate the influence of Ombrophilous Dense Forest on the composition of araucaria forest in São Paulo state. We found a clearly disjunction between the Brazilian South remaining forests and the Southeast remaining forests. We did not find a clear separation between Ombrophilous Dense and Mixed Forest areas in the same altitudinal ranges, in São Paulo state. The separation between these two formations, in São Paulo state, is restrict to physiognomic criteria, since that Araucaria angustifolia is an important emergent tree only in the Ombrophilous Mixed Forest.

ASSUNTO(S)

Árvores florestais florestas - regeneração. comunidades vegetais - estrutura araucária araucaria regeneration understorey. ecossistemas florestais phytosociology

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