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      Diferenças florísticas e estruturais entre fitofisionomias do cerrado em Assis, SP, Brasil Translated title: Floristic and structural differences among cerrado phytophysiognomies in Assis, SP, Brazil

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          A classificação das fitofisionomias tem-se constituído em desafio entre os pesquisadores da vegetação de cerrado, seja por não haver critérios florísticos ou quantitativos claros para sua separação, seja pelas alterações que sofrem ao longo do tempo. O objetivo deste estudo foi caracterizar três tipos fitofisionômicos de cerrado na Estação Ecológica de Assis, bem como verificar se são florística e, ou, estruturalmente distintos, buscando-se as melhores variáveis para caracterizá-los. A área amostral compreendeu 30 parcelas permanentes de 20 x 50 m, sendo 10 parcelas para cada um dos tipos fisionômicos: cerrado típico, cerrado denso e cerradão, em que foram identificadas e medidas as árvores com diâmetro à altura do peito > 5 cm. As três fitofisionomias de cerradoestudadas mostraram-se estruturalmente distintas em classes de área basal, cobertura de copas e altura das maiores árvores. O melhor descritor para classificar as fitofisionomias, por ser facilmente mensurável e pouco variável com o critério de inclusão, é a área basal (m² ha-1). Floristicamente, as fitofisionomias savânicas (cerradotípico e cerrado denso) não se diferenciam, quer seja analisando apenas a presença e ausência das espécies, quer seja analisando a importância relativa das espécies na comunidade (fitossociologia). Em síntese, há três fitofisionomias distintas, mas a flora se diferencia apenas entre o cerradão e as fitofisionomias savânicas. A análise das espécies exclusivas de cada fitofisionomia quanto à tolerância à sombra, com base na literatura, indicou que a baixa disponibilidade de luz sob as copas no cerradão pode ter sido o fator condicionante da diferenciação entre esta e as demais fitofisionomias do cerrado lato sensu.

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          Classification of physiognomies is a challenge for many cerrado vegetation researches either because there are no clear floristic and quantitative criteria for its classification and because the changes it had over come over the years. The objective of this study was to charactherize three phytophysiognomies types in the cerradovegetation (Brazilian savannah) in the Estação Ecológica de Assis as well as to verify if they are floristically or structurally disticnts searching for better variables to classify them. The sample consisted of 30 permanent plots with 20 × 50 m, being 10 plots for each one of the physiognomy types: typical cerrado, dense cerrado and cerradão, where trees with diameter at breast height > 5 cm. The three studied phytophysiognomies were structuraly distintics in terms of basal area, canopy cover, and average height and diameter of the tallest trees. Basal area (m² ha-1) was considered the best descriptor to classify the physiognomies of the cerrado vegetation because it is to easy measure and less variable with the inclusion criteria. In terms of floristic composition, savannah phytophysiognomies (typical cerrado and woodland cerrado) are not different from each other either by analyzing only the presence and absence of species or by analyzing the relative importance of the species in the community. Briefily, there are three distinct phytophysiognomies but the flora is different only between woodland cerrado and savannah phytophysiognomies. By analyzing the exclusive species of each physiognomy in relation to tolerance shade tolerance, it was suggested based in the literature that the low light availability under the canopies in the woodland cerrado might have been the conditioning factor of the differentiation between it and the other cerrado physiognomies.

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                Journal
                rarv
                Revista Árvore
                Rev. Árvore
                Sociedade de Investigações Florestais (Viçosa, MG, Brazil )
                0100-6762
                1806-9088
                February 2012
                : 36
                : 1
                : 181-193
                Affiliations
                [01] Manaus AM orgnameUniversidade Federal do Amazonas Brasil pinheiro@ 123456ufam.edu.br
                [02] Assis SP orgnameInstituto Florestal Brasil giselda@ 123456femanet.com.br
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                S0100-67622012000100019 S0100-6762(12)03600119
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                Physiognomyc classification,Savannah structural descriptors,Vegetation types and floristic similarity,Descritores estruturais,Classificação fisionômica,tipos fisionômicos e similaridade florística,Savana

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