Regeneração de um trecho de floresta de restinga na Reserva Ecológica Estadual de Jacarepiá, Saquarema, Estado do Rio de Janeiro: II - Estrato arbustivo

Shrub strata represents the most advantaged regeneration stage of restinga forest in the Jacarepia State Ecological Reserve, Rio de Janeiro, which is 25% impacted of the total forest area in 1986. The pioneers Trema micrantha and Aegiphila sellowiana are the most abundant. Although slow the quadrat method was efficient and allowed monitoring forest regeneration. At present, lianas are not interfering in the regeneration process. The tree species in the primary forest seem to gain with forest disturbance, some are not affected and others are able to re-grow. Within 110 species found in the study area only twenty-one were recorded in similar studies of Brazilian disturbed areas.