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Soil Seed Banks in the Pantanal Wetland

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Flora and Vegetation of the Pantanal Wetland

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This chapter is a review of the few published studies on soil seed banks of the Pantanal. We summarized the main species retrieved from soil seed banks of 15 habitats, such as seasonally flooded Tabebuia aurea savanna, grasslands, ponds, riparian vegetation and flood-free forest islets. Seed banks in the Pantanal have a flexible response to variable wet or dry conditions, i.e., in the same habitat and same soil sample, the species of seedlings that emerge from non-flooded soil differ from those emerging under flood. That was observed in the field and experimentally. Annual and short-perennial herbs are the species-richest and the most abundant group of plants to emerge from all tested seed banks in the Pantanal, also after flood or fire. Some of the most frequent emerging species are Digitaria spp., Eleocharis minima, Hyptis brevipes, Lippia alba, Ludwigia octovalvis, Richardia grandiflora, Rotala ramosior, and Scoparia montevidensis. Perennial grasses are scarce in the soil seed bank, in contrast with the standing vegetation. Various vegetation types of the Pantanal undergo frequent changes caused mainly by flood and fire, and the created gaps mostly regenerate from the soil seed bank and resprouting. Few tree species emerge from the forest soil seed bank in short trials, less than in the field; the most abundant is Cecropia pachystachya.

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To the Brazilian agencies CAPES for scholarships to E.B. Souza and F. Bao and CNPq for a researcher grant to A. Pott. To UFMS for support.

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    Arnildo Pott & Evaldo Benedito de Souza

  2. Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho, Departamento de Biodiversidade, Instituto de Biociências, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil

    Francielli Bao

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Pott, A., Bao, F., de Souza, E.B. (2021). Soil Seed Banks in the Pantanal Wetland. In: Damasceno-Junior, G.A., Pott, A. (eds) Flora and Vegetation of the Pantanal Wetland. Plant and Vegetation, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83375-6_15

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