Tree mortality in a riparian forest at Rio Paraguai, Pantanal, Brazil, after an extreme flooding

Acta Botanica Brasilica

Geraldo Alves Damasceno-junior²  João Semir¹  Flavio Antonio Maës Dos Santos¹  Hermógenes De Freitas Leitão-filho¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Departamento de Ciências do Ambiente Corumbá MS ,Brasil

关键词: Corumbá;    flooding;    disturbing;    riparian forest;    riverbank;    Corumbá;    inundação;    perturbação;    mata ripária;    dique marginal;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0102-33062004000400014

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

A study was conducted in a riparian forest (Rio Paraguai, Brazil) to verify the vegetation mortality after an exceptional flooding in 1995. Individuals with diameter at breast height > 5 cm were sampled in 108 (10×10m) plots in 1994, and re-sampled in 1996. The total mortality rate was 4.1% per year. The mortality increased with the increasing of topographic positions, at community level, suggesting that places where the flooding is less frequent are more affected by extreme floods.

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