2009
DOI: 10.1590/s1519-69842009000400008
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Abstract: Since cerrado fires may impede the growth of seedlings into trees, they may shape the population of woody species. In this study, we assessed the effects of a severe fire on the population structure and spatial distribution of Zanthoxylum rhoifolium, a widespread cerrado tree. We were interested to know the importance of the resprouting and sexual reproduction in regenerating the population. The study area had been for about six years protected from fire, before a severe fire at the end of the dry season in 20… Show more

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“…Such area had not been burned for approximately six years, during which much dry biomass had accumulated (Silva et al 2009). …”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Such area had not been burned for approximately six years, during which much dry biomass had accumulated (Silva et al 2009). …”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, studies showed that fire events tend to increase the importance of vegetative reproduction in comparison to sexual reproduction (Hoffmann 1998, Silva et al 2009). Palermo & Miranda (2012) observed that no flowers were produced by Qualea parviflora Mart.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Fires may be spatially heterogeneous, resulting in a mosaic of burnt and unburnt patches within an area (Wrobleski and Kauffman, 2003;Werner, 2010;Dodonov et al, 2014). Spatial variation in fire incidence may lead to spatial variation in plant characteristics such as plant allometry (Dodonov et al, 2011), size structure and distribution of resprouts (Silva et al, 2009;Dodonov et al, 2014), seedbank (Xavier, 2011), and plant phenology (Lucena et al, 2015).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, this may not apply to the Brazilian Cerrado, a fire-prone vegetation, where natural fires are frequent (Ramos-Neto & Pivello, 2000) and where native plant species are generally able either to withstand fire events or resprout after them (Hoffmann, 1998;Hoffmann & Solbrig, 2003;Silva et al, 2009;Dodonov et al, 2014). Pteridium arachnoideum has been considered as one of the most important invasive plants in the Brazilian Cerrado (Pivello et al, 1999), where it may lead to a low density and diversity of native woody plants (Miatto et al, 2011) and a high abundance of alien grasses in the soil seed bank (Xavier et al, 2016), with possibly negative consequences for Cerrado regeneration.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%