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Tipo: Artigo
Título: Floristic distributional patterns in a diverse ecotonal area in South America
Autor(es): Bueno, Marcelo Leandro
Pontara, Vanessa
Oliveira-Filho, Ary Teixeira de
Rezende, Vanessa Leite
Abstract: The Paraguayan territory and region, in the centre of South America, is a huge transition area with a succession of various vegetation types. However, this area has received little attention from researchers, with few works published on its flora and its delimitations. We aimed to identify the most important environmental driving forces and delimit floristic patterns in this region, since understanding the forces that drive floristic variations in this ecotonal region could help comprehend the distribution of vegetation not only in this region but throughout South America. We obtained 1234 tree species occurrence records, 205 geographic coordinates and 23 environmental variables and altitude from the ‘NeoTropTree’ database and verified the influence and contribution of environmental factors through variance partition. We tested the floristic consistency of the different vegetation types using dendrogram, indicator species and ordination analyses. We also constructed multiple linear models to check the correlation between species distribution and environmental variables. We found eight consistent vegetation types. The spatial variables coupled with environmental variables were more important than individual environmental or spatial variables. Among the environmental variables, the aridity index was the most important. Despite the importance of spatial factors, due to environmental heterogeneity, we found a gradient related to climate and edaphic variables related to tree flora. The results confirm that the Paraguayan territory and region can be considered to be a diversified and important ecotone area in South America with respect to tree flora.
Palavras-chave: Aridity index
Atlantic forest
Chaco
Environmental gradient
Vegetation patterns
Editor: Plant Ecology
Tipo de Acesso: Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-017-0759-1
http://www.locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/23354
Data do documento: Out-2017
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