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| Author(s): |
Rose Pereira Muniz de Souza
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Piracicaba. , ilustrações. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2009-03-30 |
| Examining board members: |
Vinicius Castro Souza;
Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira;
Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues
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| Advisor: | Vinicius Castro Souza |
| Field of knowledge: | Biological Sciences - Botany |
| Indexed in: | Banco de Dados Bibliográficos da USP-DEDALUS; Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações - USP |
| Location: | Universidade de São Paulo. Biblioteca Central da Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz; ESALQ-BC/t634.945 94129; S729e |
| Abstract | |
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. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 06/54440-8 - Flora and structure of araucaria forests present in conservation units in the State of São Paulo |
| Grantee: | Rose Pereira Muniz de Souza |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |