Experimentos de remoção de plantas: abordagem cienciométrica e estudo de caso

• Autor(a) principal: Morais, Joicy Martins
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/0013000000d29
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/3520
• topic: Estudos experimentais; Ecologia vegetal; Remoção de plantas; Remoção de grupos funcionais de plantas; Experimentos de remoção; Competição; Facilitação; Experimental research; Plant ecology; Plant removal; Plant functional groups removal; Removal experiments; Competition; Facilitation; CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::BOTANICA

The relationships between organisms and the mechanisms that enable their coexistence are important issues in ecology. Plant removal experiments are useful to elucidate these mechanisms because its cause and effect response. This thesis aims to analyze experiments removal plants. The first paper presents a scientometric review of the literature on plant functional groups removal 1991. We verify aspects such as the number of publications and citations in journals indexed in the Web of Science, which country was made in order to detect bias and geographic gaps, which ecological effects were tested, which functional groups were removed, which removal methods and which environments were made. We found an increase in the number of publications and citations on average during this period, however, was 12 times lower than publications on functional diversity, perhaps due to the difficulty of conducting experiments. The work was mainly carried out in temperate climates where taxonomic knowledge is greater, in addition, there is a prevalence of vegetation that is most commonly removed than trees. Testing interactions, especially competition, was the main reason for removal, perhaps as a matter of historical competition is considered the interaction that influences the co-occurrence of species. The cut at ground was the major method of removing, undisturbing the soil and avoiding undesirable effects of herbicides, and few studies have been made in a greenhouse and in the natural environment at the same time, which could elucidate responses to natural conditions and at the same time responses specific interactions. In the second paper we carried a case study on removal of capim-flecha ( Tristachya leiostachya Ness.), a dominant grass in Emas National Park (ENP), and what the consequences of such removal to the co-occurring grasses. We expected that the absence of capim-flecha allow further growth of grasses, however we found no difference in mean values between treatments indicating that there is no competition influencing the abundance of capim-flecha. The historical context burned in PNE may have influenced this high dominance of capim-flecha. We believe that experiments are useful in testing interactions, especially if they are made in the natural environment and greenhouse at the same time.