The conservation of tropical forest carbon stocks offers the opportunity to curb climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and simultaneously conserve biodiversity. However, there has been considerable debate about the extent to which carbon stock conservation will provide benefits to biodiversity in part because whether forests that contain high carbon density in their aboveground ...
O presente trabalho teve por objetivo principal caracterizar a vegetação da área de exploração de petróleo da PETROBRAS, no rio Urucu, bem como dar subsídios para a utilização da floresta de forma organizada e produtiva, baseada em conhecimentos científicos, de modo não somente a produzir resultados econômicos mas principalmente conservar o ambiente. Os três hectares de floresta inventariada sustentam 2.241 ind...
Amazonian forests are extraordinarily diverse, but the estimated species richness is very much debated. Here, we apply an ensemble of parametric estimators and a novel technique that includes conspecific spatial aggregation to an extended database of forest plots with up-to-date taxonomy. We show that the species abundance distribution of Amazonia is best approximated by a logseries with aggregated individuals,...
Este trabalho descreve a composição florística na área do reservatório da futura Hidrelétrica de Cachoeira Porteira - PA (localizada na margem esquerda do rio Trombetas), e a caracterização da vegetação. São apresentados dados sobre a abundância, dominância, freqüência e os Índices de Valor de Importância das espécies (IVIE) e o Índice de Valor de Importância das Famílias (IVIF) e a análise da estrutura horizon...
As lianas, ou trepadeiras lenhosas são importantes componentes estruturais de muitos ambientes florestais. O estudo objetivou investigar os aspectos florísticos e ecológicos de grandes lianas em três ambientes florestais de terra firme na Amazônia Central (2º35' S e 60º12' W). Para o levantamento florístico, foram alocadas 20 parcelas de 50 x 10 m em cada um dos ambientes florestais (platô, vertente e baixio), ...
This survey aimed to describe the floristic composition and structure of the epiphytic community occurring in a terra firme forest in the city of Coari, Brazil, in the Amazon region. Data collection was performed with a 1.5 ha plot method, with which upland, slope and lowland habitats were sampled. All angiosperm epiphytes and their host plants (diameter at breast height > 10 cm) were sampled. We recorded 3.528...
The rich ecology of tropical forests is intimately tied to their moisture status. Multi-site syntheses can provide a macro-scale view of these linkages and their susceptibility to changing climates. Here, we report pan-tropical and regional-scale analyses of tree vulnerability to drought. We assembled available data on tropical forest tree stem mortality before, during, and after recent drought events, from 119...
Aboveground tropical tree biomass and carbon storage estimates commonly ignore tree height (H). We estimate the effect of incorporating H on tropics-wide forest biomass estimates in 327 plots across four continents using 42 656 H and diameter measurements and harvested trees from 20 sites to answer the following questions: ; 1. What is the best H-model form and geographic unit to include in biomass models to mi...