Number of buried seeds and seedlings emergence in cerradão, cerrado and gallery forest soils at Pedregulho, Itirapina (SP), Brazil


Autoria(s): SASSAKI,REGINA M.; RONDON,JOSIMARA N.; ZAIDAN,LILIAN B.P.; FELIPPE,G.M.
Data(s)

01/08/1999

Resumo

This study was carried out at the site named Pedregulho in the "Estação Experimental de Itirapina", Itirapina, state of São Paulo, Brazil. Soil samples were collected in the rainy and in the dry season at three depths in the gallery forest, cerrado and cerradão. The total number of seeds was counted after being separated from the soil by wet sieving and the number of viable seeds was determined by emergence of seedlings in soil samples in a greenhouse. The number of seeds and of emerged seedlings decreases as soil samples become deeper. The number of seeds was much larger in the cerrado in the dry season than in the rainy season, but it was lower in the dry than in the rainy season in the gallery forest. The number of seeds in the cerradão was similar in both seasons. There was a heavy discrepancy between the total number of seeds and that of emerged seedlings.

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Identificador

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-84041999000200006

Idioma(s)

en

Publicador

Sociedade Botânica de São Paulo

Fonte

Brazilian Journal of Botany v.22 n.2 1999

Palavras-Chave #Cerrado #cerradão #gallery forest #buried seeds
Tipo

journal article