Competição, facilitação ou teoria neutra? um estudo das interações e de sua importância na estrutura de uma comunidade vegetal em regeneração
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2007-12
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Vera Lúcia Gomes Klein
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Nowadays, most ecologists have been working based only on “negative” interactions, such
as predation and competition. However, recent studies suggest that facilitative interactions can be as
important as the negative ones, and their inclusion in ecological models may produce surprising results.
This study aimed at clarifying if some plant species can develop facilitative or competitive actions in relation
to others and was carried out in an area recently used in a reforestation project to recover its gallery forest. Forty points planted in the reforestation project were randomly chosen to evaluate the plant
species present in the surrounding area and measure their dry weight. The results did not show any
differences between the points where the reforestation was successful or unsuccessful or the presence
of an indicator species. Although it was not possible to identify the most important type of interaction
occurring in this community, it should be pointed out that its structure might have been influenced by
stochastic factors, as suggested by the Neutral Theory. These results could also imply that this community
is still on an early stage of succession, presenting a high proportion of r-selected species.
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Competição, Comunidades vegetais, Facilitação, Teoria neutra, Competition, Vegetal communities, Facilitation, Neutral theory
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CARVALHO, Rodrigo Assis de; VITAL, Marcos Vinícius Carneiro; COSTA, Diogo Andrade; SILVA, Leo Caetano Fernandes da; VIEIRA, Ludgero Cardoso Galli; SILVEIRA, Allan Valle Toledo da; LIMA FILHO, Guilherme Ferreira de. Competição, facilitação ou teoria neutra? um estudo das interações e de sua importância na estrutura de uma comunidade vegetal em regeneração. Revista de Biologia Neotropical, Goiânia, v. 4, n. 2, p. 117-123, jul./dez. 2007. Disponível em: <https://www.revistas.ufg.br/RBN/article/view/5211/4279>.