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FLORISTIC INVENTORY OF ONE HECTARE OF PALM-DOMINATED CREEK FOREST IN JENARO HERRERA, PERU

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2012

R. M. Prickett ,
E. N. Honorio C. ,
Y. Baba ,
H. M. Baden ,
C. M. Alvez V.  and
C. A. Quesada
R. M. Prickett
Affiliation:
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, Scotland, UK. E-mail: rubyprickett@gmail.com Department of Botany, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland.
E. N. Honorio C.
Affiliation:
Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana, Av. José A. Quiñones km 2.5, Iquitos, Peru.
Y. Baba
Affiliation:
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, Scotland, UK. E-mail: rubyprickett@gmail.com
H. M. Baden
Affiliation:
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, Scotland, UK. E-mail: rubyprickett@gmail.com
C. M. Alvez V.
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland.
C. A. Quesada
Affiliation:
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil.
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Abstract

A floristic inventory was carried out in an area of palm-dominated creek forest in Jenaro Herrera, in the northeast of Peru. All trees ≥ 10 cm dbh were surveyed in a one-hectare permanent plot using the standard RAINFOR methodology. There were 618 individuals belonging to 230 species, 106 genera and 43 families. The results showed that the total basal area of the trees in the plot was 23.7 m2. The three species with the highest importance value indexes were Iriartea deltoidea Ruiz & Pav., Oenocarpus bataua Mart. (Arecaceae) and Carapa procera DC. (Meliaceae). The five most dominant families in order of importance were Arecaceae, Fabaceae, Meliaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Sapotaceae. Although the soil of this plot was poorly drained, the number of trees and the diversity of the plot were typical for terra firme forest in the western Amazon.

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Amazoniadiversityfloristic compositionpermanent sample plotterra firme forest
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Edinburgh Journal of Botany , Volume 69 , Issue 2 , July 2012 , pp. 259 - 280
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Copyright © Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 2012

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