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    Diversidade de herb\ue1ceas em microhabitats rochoso, plano e ciliar em uma \ue1rea de caatinga, Caruaru, PE, Brasil

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    Objetivou-se avaliar a influĂŞncia da heterogeneidade micro-espacial no aumento da fitodiversidade herbácea em uma área de caatinga de Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brasil. Microhabitats rochosos, planos e ciliares foram selecionados, e nesses foi realizado um levantamento quali-quantitativo das herbáceas ocorrentes em 35 parcelas de 1 m², em cada microhabitat. Todas as ervas nas parcelas foram contadas, marcadas e identificadas, coletando-se tambĂ©m outras espĂ©cies herbáceas ocorrentes entre as parcelas. A riqueza taxonĂ´mica total de herbáceas foi mais elevada ao se considerar o conjunto dos microhabitats. A flora total foi de 62 espĂ©cies, 42 destas ocorrendo no microhabitat rochoso, 32 no plano e 39 no ciliar. O Ă­ndice de similaridade florĂ­stica de Jaccard entre os microhabitats variou de 42% (plano × ciliar) a 57% (rochoso × plano). Isoladamente, as riquezas de espĂ©cies nos microhabitats plano, rochoso e ciliar foram de 3,09; 3,88 e de 4,18 espĂ©cies (ln ind.)-1 e as diversidades, pelo Ă­ndice de Shannon-Wiener, foram de 2,08; 2,09 e de 2,52 nats.ind.-1, respectivamente. Malvaceae, Euphorbiaceae e Poaceae apresentaram maior nĂşmero de espĂ©cies. A densidade total de herbáceas foi de 4.009 ind.105 m-2, sendo 1.749 indivĂ­duos do microhabitat rochoso, 1.020 do ciliar e 1.240 do plano. Cerca de 19% das espĂ©cies eram trepadeiras e foram consideradas como um grupo importante para conservação da biodiversidade local. Evidenciou-se a importância da inclusĂŁo das herbáceas dos diferentes microhabitats, para a determinação da riqueza florĂ­stica da caatinga

    Natural forest regeneration in abandoned sugarcane fields in northeastern Brazil: floristic changes

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    Surveys were undertaken to examine the floristic changes during secondary succession in three areas of 12 and three of 20-year-old secondary forests in Pernambuco State, Brazil. Two hundred and six species were identified, with 136 being found in the 12-year-old secondary forest and 161 species in the 20-year-old forest. Fabaceae and Myrtaceae were the most important families, increasing in species numbers with regeneration age. Of the 216 species, 115 were trees, 48 shrubs, 16 herbaceous plants, and 24 woody lianas, without significant differences between the two regeneration site ages. NMDS analysis revealed a formation of two floristic groups, distinguishing secondary and mature forests, with a further division within secondary forests in accordance with the time since abandonment. Similarity analysis ANOSIM confirmed the significance of the groups, which had floristic composition significant distinct (R=0.96) and 63% of dissimilarity (SIMPER). However, the sharing of 68 arboreal species between the secondary and mature forests suggests a floristic convergence. DCA analysis of the arboreal component as well as the other plant habits suggested that the separation of the subgroups is correlated with physical and chemical variables of the soils. All of these results indicate that, within the chronosequence analyzed, the velocity and direction of the floristic composition during secondary succession was influenced not only by the time of their abandonment, but also by a wide range of environmental variables
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