Large seed banks have been found in tropical dry forests and also in habitats with high seasonality in rainfall. However, patchily structured vegetation could induce great spatial variation in the seed bank. We characterized the seed bank in a patchy vegetation of restinga, a common type of coastal vegetation found in the Atlantic forest biome. We also evaluated whether there is any spatial variation between the litter and soil layer, bare sand, and the edge and center of vegetation patches with distinct species dominance. We found 104 seeds/m 2 in the seed bank using a 5-cm-depth sampling. Seven out of 16 species found in the restinga seed bank germinated; two of these were found in the early stages of vegetation patches. We found a higher number of seeds at the edge than in the center of vegetation patches. However, there were no significant differences in the number of seeds in the seed bank between the litter and soil layer, and between vegetation patches with distinct species dominance. Bare sandy soils had lower seed bank densities than vegetation patches. A small seed bank size might be explained by the low proportion of seeds from herbaceous and woody species, which are pioneers in the Atlantic forest. However, seed bank might play an important role in the early stages of the successional process, due to the occurrence of the few species that are able to colonize new young vegetation patches.
Este artigo se baseia em uma pesquisa empírica cujo objetivo é analisar, a partir de uma perspectiva interseccional, como as mulheres negras, quilombolas e marisqueiras de duas comunidades da Ilha de Maré (Baía de Todos os Santos, Salvador, Bahia) são afetadas pela ocupação de seu território pela cadeia petrolífera. A compreensão da complexidade da experiência que essas mulheres vivenciam em seu território de vida, no atual contexto de conflito ambiental, só pode ser alcançada considerando a intersecção dos marcadores de raça, gênero, classe e o que aqui denominamos de modo de vida ligado ao meio ambiente.
This article, based on an empirical research project, aims to analyze, from an intersectional perspective, how Black women, quilombolas and gleaners, from two communities on Ilha de Maré (in Todos os Santos Bay, Salvador, Bahia) have been affected with the occupation of their territory by a petroleum supply chain. Understanding the complexity of the experience that these women have come up against in the territory where they live, due to a context of environmental conflict, may only be achieved by considering the intersectionality of race, gender, and class, and through what we have termed as a way of life linked to the environment.
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