Paulo César da Costa Virgulino Júnior

Federal University of Para | UFPA · Instituto de Estudos Costeiros, Laboratório de Ecologia de Manguezal

Transitional areas provide many benefits and advantages for several species according to shifts in environmental conditions. Because mangrove crabs (U. cordatus) seem to benefit from the ecotone between mangrove (M) and estuarine várzea (V) forests on Marajó Island, eastern Amazon coast, we investigated whether crab population structure varies in r...

Um dos objetivos principais do projeto Mangues da Amazônia é aprimorar o conhecimento sobre a vegetação arbórea dos manguezais das reservas-alvo. Para isso foram estudados a distribuição, atributos estruturais, biomassa, estoque de carbono, emissão de CO2 do solo e taxas fotossintéticas dos manguezais. Os resultados revelaram um ecossistema com dom...

Reliable estimates of biomass and carbon storage are essential for the understanding of the environmental drivers and processes that regulate the productivity of scrub forests. The present study estimated total (above-ground, AGB + below-ground, BGB) biomass and carbon storage of a scrub forest dominated by Avicennia germinans (L.) L. based on the...

Key message Wood density varies among mangrove tree species and diameter size classes, reflecting ontogenetic strategies influenced by environmental conditions, such as the salinity gradient. Abstract Wood density is one of the most widely used parameters for the description of the structure of a plant and its production of biomass/carbon, as well...