Abstract

LONDONO-LEMOS, Viviana; TAPASCO-GARCIA, Juan; ESCOBAR-HADECHINI, Orlando  and  MADRINAN, Santiago. Woody vegetation of a tropical dry forest remnant in the Colombian Caribbean. Colomb. for. [online]. 2022, vol.25, n.1, pp.51-66.  Epub Mar 09, 2022. ISSN 0120-0739.  https://doi.org/10.14483/2256201x.17920.

The Cartagena Botanical Garden tropical dry forest is one of the few protected forest remnants near Cartagena. Its conservation state and the abundance of water sources in the area make it unique among this ecosystem's remnants in the Colombian Caribbean. We evaluated the structure, composition, and the functional and phylogenetic diversity of the plant community by setting up a permanent plot. We recorded 2023 ramets of 62 species. The family with the highest Importance Value Index (IVI) was Moraceae. The total aboveground biomass was 61.8 t.ha-1. Two functional types of plants were found: one adapted to the understory, and the other one adapted to the canopy, and a low phylogenetic grouping. We concluded that the forest is in a late to intermediate secondary succession state. The high availability of water in the area and its isolated location have been determining factors for its vegetation.

Keywords : biomass; floristic composition; phylogenetic diversity; functional diversity; plant structure; functional traits..

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