Floristic composition and dispersal syndromes in Araucaria Forest remnants in the municipality of Colombo, Paraná state, Brazil

By

Possete, Rafael Fernando Da Silva
Mikich, Sandra Bos
Hatschbach, Gerdt Guenther
Ribas, Osmar dos Santos
Liebsch, Dieter

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015-10-18

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

11

Series / Issue

Issue: 5

Pages

1771--14

Subjects

Araucaria Forest , Biodiversity conservation , dispersal syndromes , floristic inventory , seed dispersal

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/11.5.1771

 

Abstract

This study was conducted in Araucaria Forest remnants in the municipality of Colombo, eastern Paraná state, Brazil. Data on species occurrence, life forms and dispersal syndromes were collected once a week along a 9 km transect, revealing the presence of 512 species among trees (n = 135), shrubs (n = 121), herbs (n = 157), climbers (n = 70), epiphytes (n = 24) and hemiparasites (n = 5). Of 469 species classified according to dispersal syndromes, 42.4% were zoochoric, 33.6% autochoric and 23.8% anemochoric. The high richness observed, the highest among similar studies previously conducted in the Araucaria Forest, along with the occurrence of endangered species of trees (and mammals), indicates that the study area is an important remnant for biodiversity conservation.