Composição florística e fitossociológica da vegetação de turfeira tropical amazônica, no município de Barcelos - AM

Abstract

Whereas the bogs are plant, community recently reported for Amazon Topical, acting as major carbon sinks. The objective of the research was to analyze the vegetation structure, species composition and diversity of vegetation that have not been reported for this ecosystem, but pose the information relating to the ground of the site. The research was conducted at 100 km from the city of Barcelos-AM, in the bog vegetation on the right bank of the stream Palataque. The sample was used for multiple parcels, five randomly allocated portions of 0.5 h, at a distance of 500 m each, sampling up all individuals as D.A.D ≥ 10 cm. Finding 2004 individuals in 42 species and 4 morphospecies, representing 35 genera and 19 botanical families. According to the abundance diagram, it demonstrated that the study area is in balance, acting as a potential carbon sink. From the phytosociological analysis it became clear that the Brasiliense Calophyllum species, was the best represented by higher density percentages, frequency and abundance recorded also getting a higher value of importance within the plant community. The result of the Shannon index showed that the plant community of tropical peatland had a low diversity of species (2.7) as the amounts recorded in humid environments of the Amazon, lies between 2.5 and 3.0. The representativeness of the species evenness of Pielou index was 0.7 charging that the largest number of individuals met distributed in a few species. The results of the diameter distribution curve the mathematical model obtained was a negative exponential curve, and the vertical structure has a predominant distribution in the middle stratum, the species Aspidosperma sandwithianum was the one that found the average upper stratum, represented by individuals with size average. Indeed, the conditions that the ecosystem presents the peatland is studied in the development phase, ie minerotrófica ombrotrófica the transformation process