Litterfall: A Bio-indicator for Edge Effect in a Semi-deciduous Seasonal Forest
| Autor: | Rodrigo Camara de Souza, Geângelo Petene Calvi, Fatima Conceição Márquez Piña-Rodrigues, Murilo Rezende Machado, Paulo Sérgio dos Santos Leles |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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040101 forestry
0106 biological sciences Wet season forest fragmentation Semi-deciduous Fragmentation (computing) deciduous material Forestry 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Seasonality Plant litter medicine.disease 01 natural sciences Edge effects atlantic forest Deciduous Deposition (aerosol physics) medicine 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries Environmental science lcsh:SD1-669.5 lcsh:Forestry 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Floresta e Ambiente v.25 n.3 2018 Floresta e Ambiente Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) instacron:UFRJ Floresta e Ambiente, Vol 25, Iss 3 (2018) Floresta e Ambiente, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Article number: e20170528, Published: 19 JUL 2018 |
| Popis: | This study aimed to evaluate the use of litterfall as an indicator of fragmentation in a Semi-deciduous Seasonal Forest in Além Paraíba, MG, Brazil. Litterfall was collected monthly for one year in conical collectors (0.25 m2 of surface), located at seven distances from the forest edge: 10, 30, 60, 100, 160, 250 and 350 m. The litterfall was dried in an oven and separated (leaves, branches, reproductive structures, miscellaneous). Litterfall was greater near the forest edge, probably due to a predominance of species with high leaf deposition (pioneers and deciduous). Litterfall had peaks at the beginning of the rainy season for the average obtained from the seven distances from the forest edge. The edge effect did not clearly influence the contribution of the fractions or the seasonality of total litterfall. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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