Flood and fire act as ecological filters which can interact to shape forest structure and
species composition. Our objective was to investigate how the interaction between fire and
flood influences richness, abundance, basal area and species composition of the tree
community and the monodominant belts of Attalea phalerata Mart. in forest islets of the
Pantanal wetland. We used satellite images to find 12 forest islets without fire events from
1998 to 2014, and 12 forest islets burned only once in the same period in a fire event in …