Maria Aparecida Lopes
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Plant and animal studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
Universidade Federal do Pará
2019-2025
Unlike most rivers globally, nearly all lowland Amazonian have unregulated flow, supporting seasonally flooded floodplain forests. Floodplain forests harbor a unique tree species assemblage adapted to flooding and specialized fauna, including fruit-eating fish that migrate into floodplains, favoring expansive areas. Frugivorous are forest-dependent fauna critical forest regeneration via seed dispersal support commercial artisanal fisheries. We implemented linear mixed effects models...
Abstract Tropical forests are known for their high diversity. Yet, forest patches do occur in the tropics where a single tree species is dominant. Such “monodominant” from all of main tropical regions. For Amazonia, we sampled occurrence monodominance massive, basin-wide database forest-inventory plots Amazon Tree Diversity Network (ATDN). Utilizing simple defining metric at least half trees ≥ 10 cm diameter belonging to one species, found only few occurrences and phenomenon was not...
Abstract Leaf and wood functional traits of trees are related to growth, reproduction, survival, but the degree phylogenetic conservatism in these relationships is largely unknown. In this study, we describe variability strategies involving leaf, demographic characteristics for tree genera distributed across Amazon Region, quantify signal their relationships. aligned with variables along two main axes variation. The first axis represents coordination leaf describing resource uptake use,...