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Effects of bamboo dominance and palm-heart harvesting on the phylogenetic structure of the seed and seedling communities in an old-growth Atlantic Forest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2017

Daniella Schweizer ,
Débora Cristina Rother ,
Ana Elena Muler ,
Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues ,
Marco Aurélio Pizo  and
Pedro H. S. Brancalion
Daniella Schweizer
Affiliation:
Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
Débora Cristina Rother*
Affiliation:
Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil
Ana Elena Muler
Affiliation:
Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues
Affiliation:
Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
Marco Aurélio Pizo
Affiliation:
Universidade Estadual Paulista, Departamento de Zoologia, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
Pedro H. S. Brancalion
Affiliation:
Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
*
*Corresponding author. Email: deborarother@gmail.com
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Abstract:

A comprehensive assessment of the effect of disturbances on tropical and subtropical forests is needed to better understand their impacts on forest structure and diversity. Although taxonomic and functional diversity measures have been successfully adopted in this context, phylogenetic diversity metrics are still poorly explored. We compared the phylogenetic structure of the seed rain and regenerating seedling community in patches of an old-growth Atlantic Forest remnant dominated or not by a ruderal bamboo species, Guadua tagoara. We sampled those patches before and after illegal harvesting of the palm Euterpe edulis thus assessing if the harvesting led to changes in the phylogenetic structure of the seed rain and the regenerating community in both patches. Bamboo-dominated patches showed a significantly higher presence of species in the seed rain that were more distantly related to each other in the phylogeny than expected by chance compared with patches without bamboos, but this difference disappeared after palm-heart harvesting. Contrary to what we expected, we did not find significant changes in the phylogenetic structure of seedlings before or after palm-heart harvesting. The phylogenetic structure at the tips of the phylogeny was random overall. The maintenance of a higher presence of far relatives in the phylogeny of the seedling community suggests, assuming trait conservatism, that despite bamboo dominance and palm-heart harvesting, functional diversity is being preserved at least in the early regenerating stages and in the time frame of the study. However, higher presence of pioneer taxa after palm-heart harvest indicates that this disturbance may lead old-growth areas to earlier successional stages.

Keywords

bamboo-dominated forestcommunity assemblyforest regenerationpalm-heart harvestphylogenetic ecology
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Research Article
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Journal of Tropical Ecology , Volume 33 , Issue 5 , September 2017 , pp. 309 - 316
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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