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Exotic tree species Syzygium cumini and Taliparti tiliaceum affect restinga forest regeneration growing under them, in comparison to native species, mainly because they reduce saplings’ abundance.
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Biological plant invasions are a considerable threat to native vegetation biodiversity, mainly when the invaded site consists in suppressed fragmented remnants surrounded by urbanization. Although this is the case of Brazilian restinga forests, knowledge on potential invasion events in these environments remains scarce. We herein identified differences between these communities by comparing natural regeneration on plots planted with exotic tree species Syzygium cumini and Talipariti tiliaceum to those planted with native trees on an urban restinga forest park in Rio de Janeiro city. We observed that natural regeneration communities were impacted by exotic trees, resulting in alterations to both their structure and floristic composition. Furthermore, the magnitude of this impact depended on the identity of the exotic tree in question. Somehow, plant community regeneration based on species T. tiliaceum was significantly different from that in native plots, at all parameters: species richness, mean abundance of individuals, mean plant height, total basal area, absolute density and abundance of seedlings. S. cumini, in its turn, seemed to have only significantly changed regeneration’s abundance parameters. Therefore, based on our findings, S. cumini and T. tiliaceum presented potential invasive impact to native flora. These species should be monitored and likely managed in other restinga forests, since prevention is the key action to preserve our native environments from biological invasions.
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We are grateful to all our lab partners for their kind assistance in the field. A.N. is grateful to Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for funding the development of her Masters’ Degree project.
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This research was supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), which provided support to author A.N (Grant number: 132512/2019-0).
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Narcizo, A.T., Braga, J.M.A. & Sartori, R.A. Impact of exotic tree species on the natural regeneration of an urban restinga forest. Trees 37, 1643–1655 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-023-02449-7
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