Publications
| Title: | Comentarios al concepto y la definición de comunidades vegetales en la Amazonía noroccidental |  |
| Authors: | Duque Montoya, A.J. | |
| Year: | 2002 | |
| Inside: | Crónica Forestal y del Medio Ambiente No. 16, 2002 | |
| Publishing Country: | Colombia | |
| Abstract: | A continuous debate seems to persist between supporters of the niche and dispersal assembly theories when trying to explain the floristic composition of vegetation units of the rain forest. When studies dealing with such theories as applied to plant communities from the western Amazonian, are examined, the results reveal different patterns. All depending on the scale of sampling. Thus, in the case for Pteridophytes and herbaceous angiosperms, its distribution is explained by the variability in physiography or soils. As it is here proposed, one can find both patterns in the same vegetation unit, and for all types of plant organisms (trees from the canopy, herbs or shrubbs from the understory). Therefore, the apparent distinct patterns revealed by many studies are likely generated because the differences in the scale of sampling (local or regional) as well in the scale of organisms sampled (trees or herbs). | |
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| Tropenbos: | No | |
| Downloadable: | Yes | |
| Possible to order: | No | |
| Price: | € 0 | |
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