Year: 1987
Type: article
Abstract: Florislic lists, quantitative analyses and brief descriptions are given of cerrado (tree savanna), forest and campo vegetation in the area close to the headquarters settlement of the Parque Nacional do Araguaia, Goias, Brazil.A soil reconnaissance of the same area, prepared by the late Professor D. R. Gifford, is appended.CONTENTS Transect 3 (Table 1) passes through more or less undifferentiated cerradao in the sense of Ratter (1970) and Ratter et al. (1973), i.e. the most important species are to a large extent those typical of more open forms of cerrado.Transect 1 (Table 2) on the other hand is in dystrophic facies cerradao with most of the important trees those characteristic of cerradao and rare in more open forms of cerrado, e.g.Siparuna guianensis, Xylopia sericea, Protium heptaphyllum, Hirtella glandulosa, Vochysia haenkeana, Tapirira guianensis, Sclerolobium paniculatum, Cardiopetalum calophyllum and Virola sebifera.In fact the two transects probably represent stages in the sere from cerrado to Dry forest discussed in Ratter et al. (1973 & 1978b).
Author: J A Ratter
Language: English
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4414686285