{"id":143793,"date":"2014-01-31T18:20:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T20:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=143793"},"modified":"2014-01-31T18:20:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T20:20:25","slug":"size-forest-affects-composition-tree-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/size-forest-affects-composition-tree-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Size of forest affects composition of tree species"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_143794\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-143794\" alt=\"Rhynchosia phaseoloides seed, one of the most plentiful species found in fragments\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tecno_Rhynchosia-phaseoloides-cred-Alex-Popovkin-2.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tecno_Rhynchosia-phaseoloides-cred-Alex-Popovkin-2.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tecno_Rhynchosia-phaseoloides-cred-Alex-Popovkin-2-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tecno_Rhynchosia-phaseoloides-cred-Alex-Popovkin-2-250x188.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\"> ALEX POPOVKIN, BAHIA, BRAZIL<\/span>Rhynchosia phaseoloides seed, one of the most plentiful species found in fragments<span class=\"media-credits\"> ALEX POPOVKIN, BAHIA, BRAZIL<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The limitation on seed transport is one of the factors that alters species composition in fragmented forests. This observation, which comes from a study led by C\u00edntia Gomes Freitas at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), is particularly true in the Northeast state of Pernambuco. The region north of the S\u00e3o Francisco River, known as the Pernambuco Center of Endemism, is home to only 2% of the original Atlantic Forest, whose remnants are scattered among forest islands separated by sugar plantations. Samples of the seed sets that reached the soil in different fragments of the region indicate that the species composition of trees varies according to the fragment size and its distance from the largest source area (<i>Acta Oecologica<\/i>, November 2013). Species that germinate in sunny areas or that are dispersed by animals enjoy an advantage. Findings also show that only small seeds, which can hitch a ride with birds or bats, manage to reach the fragments that lie farther away. The dispersers of medium and large seeds \u2013 like pacas, tamarins, and sloths \u2013 apparently do not venture very far into plantations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Limitation on seed transport alters species composition in fragmented forests","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[213,224],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-143793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-botany","tag-ecology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143793"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=143793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}