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Integrating species and successional classes for wood production in a mixed forest restoration system in a neotropical region

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As forests in neotropical regions, particularly in developing countries, are devastated, interventions to restore biodiversity and its ecological functions are needed. Rural producers have thus been encouraged to grow trees for wood production as an economic activity. The objective of this study was to quantify the increment of wood density of four forest species from different successional classes of a mixed system of restoration in a neotropical forest in Brazil. Tree discs were sampled at breast height and analyzed radially by X-ray densitometry to obtain apparent density and basic density. Three trees each of a species from the pioneer, early and late secondary successional stages and of the dominant species in the climax community. The radial profiles indicated increasing density from the pith to bark of trunks, except for some variations due to wood defects and growth. Average density was 0.576 g cm−3, 0.655 g cm−3, 0.706 g cm−3 and 0.775 g cm−3, respectively, for Peltophorum dubium, Schinus terebinthifolius, Cariniana estrellensis and Hymenaea courbaril. Radial profiles indicated higher amplitudes in the apparent densities for slow-growing species. X-ray densitometry generated parameters such as minimum, average and maximum densities, and radial density variations. These parameters are important for understanding the ecological functional role of successional classes of the Atlantic Forest from the Neotropical region.

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We thank Petrobrás for financing the implementation project and the Institute for Research and Forest Studies (IPEF) for the assistance in obtaining study material.

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  1. Wood and Forestry Science Department, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Av. Governador Lindemberg, 316, Jerônimo Monteiro City, ES, 29550-000, Brazil

    Ananias Francisco Dias Júnior, Ana Paula Câmara da Silva & Álison Moreira da Silva

  2. São Paulo State School of Technology (FATEC/SP), Av. Diacóno Jair de Oliveira, 651, Piracicaba, SP, 13414-141, Brazil

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  3. Forest Products Department, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), BR 465, km 07, Seropédica, RJ, 29890-000, Brazil

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  4. University of São Paulo, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture (USP/ESALQ), Av. Pádua Dias, 11, Piracicaba, SP, 13418-900, Brazil

    Mario Tommasiello Filho & José Otávio Brito

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Dias Júnior, A.F., Pincelli, A.L.M.S., Câmara da Silva, A.P. et al. Integrating species and successional classes for wood production in a mixed forest restoration system in a neotropical region. J. For. Res. 32, 2313–2321 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-021-01297-w

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