La Tour du Valat

Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes

Titre :	Drastic erosion in functional attributes of tree assemblages in Atlantic forest fragments of northeastern Brazil
Auteurs :	Braulio A. Santos, Auteur ; Carlos A. Peres, Auteur ; Marcondes A. Oliveira, Auteur ; Alexandre Grillo, Auteur ; Cecilia P. Alves-Costa, Auteur ; Marcelo Tabarelli, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Biological Conservation (141(1) JAN 2008)
Article en page(s) :	249-260
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	The long-term dynamics of plant communities remain poorly understood in isolated tropical forest fragments. Here we test the hypothesis that tropical tree assemblages in both small forest fragments and along forest edges of very large fragments are functionally much more similar to stands of secondary growth (5-65-yr old) than to core primary forest patches. The study was carried out in a severely fragmented landscape of the Brazilian Atlantic forest. Nine functional attributes of tree assemblages were quantified by sampling all trees (DBH >= 10 cm) within

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