Nectar robbery by a hermit hummingbird: association to floral phenotype and its influence on flowers and network structure

PK Maruyama, J Vizentin-Bugoni, B Dalsgaard… - Oecologia, 2015 - Springer
Interactions between flowers and their visitors span the spectrum from mutualism to
antagonism. The literature is rich in studies focusing on mutualism, but nectar robbery has …

Edaphic factors influence the distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi along an altitudinal gradient of a tropical mountain

LC Vieira, DKA da Silva, MAC de Melo, IEC Escobar… - Microbial ecology, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Changes in relief in montane areas, with increasing altitude, provide different biotic
and abiotic conditions, acting on the species of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). The …

Aspectos brioflorísticos e fitogeográficos de duas formações costeiras de Floresta Atlântica da Serra do Mar, Ubatuba/SP, Brasil

ND Santos, DP Costa, LS Kinoshita, GJ Shepherd - Biota neotropica, 2011 - SciELO Brasil
Briófitas são bioindicadoras de condições climáticas, ambientais e ecológicas, sendo úteis
na caracterização de tipos vegetacionais. Neste trabalho, foi analisada a brioflora de duas …

Windborne: Can liverworts be used as indicators of altitudinal gradient in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest?

ND dos Santos, DP da Costa, LS Kinoshita… - Ecological …, 2014 - Elsevier
Liverworts are non-vascular cryptogamic plants with wide geographic distributions due to
their capacity to disperse their spores over long distances, although they have no epidermal …

[HTML][HTML] Florística e estrutura de um trecho de floresta ombrófila densa atlântica submontana no Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar, em Ubatuba/SP, Brasil

ALC Rochelle, R Cielo-Filho, FR Martins - Biota neotropica, 2011 - SciELO Brasil
Este trabalho descreve a composição e a estrutura da comunidade arbórea de 1 ha de
Floresta Ombrófila Densa Atlântica Submontana primária localizado no litoral norte do …

Florística e fitossociologia do componente arbóreo da transição floresta ombrófila densa das terras baixas-floresta ombrófila densa submontana do Núcleo …

MCR Campos, JY Tamashiro, MA Assis, CA Joly - Biota Neotropica, 2011 - SciELO Brasil
Em uma parcela de 1 ha dividida em 100 subparcelas de 10× 10 m foram plaqueados todos
os indivíduos arbóreos com no mínimo 15 cm de perímetro à altura do peito (DAP= 4, 8 cm) …

Family legacy: contrasting diversity–elevation relationships on a coastal Atlantic Forest mountain system

V de Andrade Kamimura, GM Marcusso, GP Sabino… - Plant Ecology, 2022 - Springer
Unveiling the ecological processes driving diversity and its relationship to the environment
remains a central goal in ecological studies. Here, we investigated the elevation effect on …

[HTML][HTML] Dispersal spectrum of four forest types along an altitudinal range of the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest

VF Martins, LPD Cazotto, FAM Santos - Biota Neotropica, 2014 - SciELO Brasil
In ecological communities, the proportion of plant species with different dispersal syndromes
is known as the dispersal spectrum, which can result from different selective pressures such …

Effect of vertebrate exclusion on leaf litter decomposition in the coastal Atlantic forest of southeast Brazil

GG Medeiros, J Antonio, M Harrison, LD Coletta… - Tropical Ecology, 2021 - Springer
Forest fragmentation is the main cause of biodiversity loss in the Anthropocene and it is
triggering a top-down cascade effect that may influence leaf litter decomposition. However …

How environmental factors condition natural regeneration in the altitudinal gradient of a montane rainforest

VBR Duarte, VS Abreu, HM Dias, SH Kunz… - 2022 - researchsquare.com
The variation of abiotic factors, and the plant species response to it, influence the
regeneration capacity and, consequently, the structure of the forest community. The aim of …