Ingled Borges Toledo , Farley Soares Braz , Pedro Henrique Abreu Moura , Vanessa da Fontoura Custódio Monteiro , Valter Henrique Marinho dos Santos
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Edge effect evaluation on natural regeneration in fragment of Atlantic Forest, south of Minas Gerais, Brazil
The Atlantic Forest, one of the most biodiverse yet threatened biomes worldwide, has undergone extensive fragmentation, resulting in pronounced edge effects. This study investigates how edge effects influence species diversity and natural regeneration structure in an Atlantic Forest fragment in southern Minas Gerais. We established eighteen 5 × 5 m plots along two transects to analyze phytosociological patterns and calculated the Shannon-Wiener diversity and Pielou evenness indices for regenerating individuals (DBH < 5 cm, height 1–3 m). Results show that edge effects significantly influence species composition and regeneration dynamics, revealing distinct patterns between transects. Transect 2 exhibited greater species stability, suggesting better conservation conditions. These findings highlight the need for targeted conservation strategies to mitigate edge-related disturbances and enhance forest regeneration in fragmented landscapes.
期刊介绍:
Ecological Complexity is an international journal devoted to the publication of high quality, peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of biocomplexity in the environment, theoretical ecology, and special issues on topics of current interest. The scope of the journal is wide and interdisciplinary with an integrated and quantitative approach. The journal particularly encourages submission of papers that integrate natural and social processes at appropriately broad spatio-temporal scales.
Ecological Complexity will publish research into the following areas:
• All aspects of biocomplexity in the environment and theoretical ecology
• Ecosystems and biospheres as complex adaptive systems
• Self-organization of spatially extended ecosystems
• Emergent properties and structures of complex ecosystems
• Ecological pattern formation in space and time
• The role of biophysical constraints and evolutionary attractors on species assemblages
• Ecological scaling (scale invariance, scale covariance and across scale dynamics), allometry, and hierarchy theory
• Ecological topology and networks
• Studies towards an ecology of complex systems
• Complex systems approaches for the study of dynamic human-environment interactions
• Using knowledge of nonlinear phenomena to better guide policy development for adaptation strategies and mitigation to environmental change
• New tools and methods for studying ecological complexity