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Patterns of structure and seedling diversity along a flooding and sucessional g...

Estratégias de dispersão, produção de frutos e extrativismo da palmeira Astroca...

Tolerância de Himatanthus sucuuba Wood. (Apocynaceae) ao alagamento na Amazônia...

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

Amazonian várzea forests: adaptive strategies of trees as tools for forest mana...

The role of carbohydrates in seed germination and seedling establishment of Him...

Background and Aims In the Amazonian floodplains plants withstand annual periods of flooding which can last 7 months. Under these conditions seedlings remain submerged in the dark for long periods since light penetration in the water is limited. Himatanthus sucuuba is a tree species found in the 'várzea' (VZ) floodplains and adjacent non-flooded 'terra-firme' (TF) forests. Biochemical traits which enhance flood...

The Brazilian freshwater wetscape: Changes in tree community diversity and comp...

Wetlands harbor an important compliment of regional plant diversity, but in many regions data on wetland diversity and composition is still lacking, thus hindering our understanding of the processes that control it. While patterns of broad-scale terrestrial diversity and composition typically correlate with contemporary climate it is not clear to what extent patterns in wetlands are complimentary, or conflictin...

Drought responses of flood-tolerant trees in Amazonian floodplains

Background Flood-tolerant tree species of the Amazonian floodplain forests are subjected to an annual dry period of variable severity imposed when low river-water levels coincide with minimal precipitation. Although the responses of these species to flooding have been examined extensively, their responses to drought, in terms of phenology, growth and physiology, have been neglected hitherto, although some infor...

Ecologia, zonação e colonização da vegetação arbórea das Ilhas Anavilhanas

Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests

Knowledge about the biogeographic affinities of the world's tropical forests helps to better understand regional differences in forest structure, diversity, composition, and dynamics. Such understanding will enable anticipation of region-specific responses to global environmental change. Modern phylogenies, in combination with broad coverage of species inventory data, now allow for global biogeographic analyses...