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Spatial distribution of Araceae on phorophytes in different areas of submontane rainforest, Santa Catarina Island (SC), Southern Brazil

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Araceae is well represented in Brazil but there are few studies on spatial distribution of species on phorophytes. Aiming to analyze vegetation variations, four different areas of submontane rainforest were studied: bottom of valley (BV); middle slope (MS); mountaintop (M); and rocky mountaintop (RM) in Santa Catarina Island, southern Brazil. To study the aroids, the quadrant points method with 60 phorophyte sampled by area was used. Each phorophyte was divided in 2-m-height intervals to obtain the vertical distribution. Eight species of aroids belonging to four genera were recorded, among which Anthurium Schott and Philodendron Schott were the most representative. Species richness, Shannon diversity, and evenness index were the highest in MS and the lowest in RM. The most similar areas were MS and M (J = 0.88). Most species of aroids showed low horizontal and vertical frequency; however, the aroids were present in 35.4 % of the phorophytes surveyed; 60 % of families and 50 % of phorophyte species sampled; and 8.9 % of the height intervals sampled. The occurrence of the species in the strata close to the ground and intermediates may be related to the prevalence of nomadic vine species. Species of aroids showed no specificity for host tree.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank CAPES for granting the scholarship to the first author of this article, Dr. Eduardo Gomes Gonçalves (UCB) for the taxonomic identification of aroids, and Dr. Marcos Eduardo Guerra Sobral (UFSJ) for the taxonomic identification of host trees.

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  1. Núcleo de Ciências Biológicas e Ambientais, Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS), Rodovia RS 135, Km 25, Distrito Engenheiro Luiz Englert, Caixa Postal 21, Sertão, RS, 99170-000, Brazil

    Juliana Marcia Rogalski

  2. Herbário Barbosa Rodrigues, Itajaí, Brazil

    Ademir Reis

  3. Núcleo de Pesquisa em Florestas Tropicais, Departamento de Fitotecnia, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

    Maurício Sedrez dos Reis

  4. Departamento de Botânica, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

    Maike Hering de Queiroz

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Rogalski, J.M., Reis, A., dos Reis, M.S. et al. Spatial distribution of Araceae on phorophytes in different areas of submontane rainforest, Santa Catarina Island (SC), Southern Brazil. Braz. J. Bot 39, 1077–1086 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40415-016-0307-6

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