Diversity of vascular plants growing on walls of a Brazilian city |
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Authors: | Valéria Aparecida dos Reis Julio Antonio Lombardi Rodolfo Antônio de Figueiredo |
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Institution: | 1. Faculdade de Ciências e Letras Padre Anchieta, Jundiaí, SP, Brasil 2. Departamento de Botanica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, Brasil 3. Centro Universitário Central Paulista and Departamento de Botanica, Universidade Federal de S?o Carlos, S?o Carlos, SP, Brasil
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Abstract: | City walls are very specialized environments, conditioned by human activities. There is little information about plants that invade human-made habitats, and no study done in Brazil with plants growing up on walls. The aim of the present study was to survey the wall vascular flora of a Brazilian city, comparing the diversity found in its downtown and neighborhoods. Fieldwork was done in Jundiaí, São Paulo State, where data was collected in downtown and in five neighborhoods. In each place, three transects of 1 km were established and every plant individual was registered. Twenty-eight species were identified, all of them on the downtown transect and most also on the neighborhood transects. Five species were the most frequent, although none were dominant. The diversity indicies of the six transects were not significantly different, with an overall diversity of H′ = 2.93. |
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Keywords: | City plants Urban ecology Plant invasion Southeastern Brazil |
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