Banca de DEFESA: AUGUSTO CÉSAR DA SILVA

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DISCENTE : AUGUSTO CÉSAR DA SILVA
DATA : 20/02/2018
HORA: 13:30
LOCAL: Sala de Videoconferência – Centro de Convivência UFRN
TÍTULO:

Floristic groups and their environmental relations in the Caatinga seasonally dry vegetation, northeastern of South America.


PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Biogeography, floristic dissimilarity, endemism, distribution patterns, classification of vegetation, semi-arid environments, seasonally dry forests. 


PÁGINAS: 41
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Biológicas
ÁREA: Ecologia
RESUMO:

Aim Biogeographical regionalizations are representations of the organization of organisms in the geographical space in function of the various biotic to abiotic factors to past or present. Our aim was to propose a vegetacion bioregionalization of Caatinga based in floristic data, identifying the factors main that determine the grups distribuition patterns.

Location Caatinga phytogeographical domain

Methods We compiled 266 floristic inventories that to composse the “Caaporã” database. The floristic inventories were used to build a species-by-site matrix and used unconstrained ordination and clustering techniques to identify the number of floristic groups in Caatinga. We applied an interpolation method to map axes of compositional variation over the whole extent of the Caatinga and then classified the compositional dissimilarity according to the number of floristic groups identified a priori. In addition, we performed a hierarchical analysis (UPGMA) to verify the relationship between the groups. We used multinomial logistic regression models with AIC and wAICc criteria to investigate the influence of contemporary productivity, topographic complexity, historical climate shifts and human footprint in explaining the floristics groups.

Results We identified a total of 2872 species of plants organized into nine floristic groups, some are distributed latitudinally (North-South), while others are restricted to certain specific regions in the southern and western portions of the domain. The results of the multinomial regression show that the aridity index (AI) individually was the variable that best explains the distribution pattern of the groups. Therefore productivity was the significant model that best describes the distribution pattern of the groups. The models evaluating soil, topography and historical variables were not significant.

Main Conclusions The distribution pattern of the Caatinga biogeographic groups was shown to be largely determined by aridity. Due to its climatic variability and instability throughout the domain it is possible that many of the floristic groups present in the Caatinga are composed of groups of species from the Atlantic Forest, the Cerrado or even the Amazon. Overall, the regionalization of the Caatinga into floristic groups provides a cohesive spatial representation of the biogeographic distributions in the Caatinga. Therefore, our proposed classification together with the other suggestions contribute to a better understanding of the floristic distribution patterns of the caatinga and the processes that govern these floristic groups.


MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1837921 - ALEXANDRE FADIGAS DE SOUZA
Interno - 1678202 - CARLOS ROBERTO SORENSEN DUTRA DA FONSECA
Externo à Instituição - MARCELO FREIRE MORO - UNICAMP
Notícia cadastrada em: 22/01/2018 12:14
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