Evidence for the Successional Status of Liana Forest (Xingu River Basin, Amazonian Brazil)

• DOI: 10.2307/2388717
• Publication Date: 2006-05-04T21:57:45Z
• Authors: William Balee; David G. Campbell
• Keywords: 0106 biological sciences; 15. Life on land; liana forest lianas succession secondary forest; 01 natural sciences; 6. Clean water

Our first objective was to describe species richness, relative density, relative frequency, relative dominance, species importance, and family importance in the two study sites for all individuals ≥10 cm dbh. Our second objective was to show how the adaptations of some of the ecologically most important species in these study sites offer support to the hypothesis that liana forest is not a primary forest type, but rather anthropogenic