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ABSTRACT

The objective of this work was to evaluate if the soil heterogeneity expressed by the different
soil classes would condition tree communities with different dynamic behaviors. The data were
collected from 25 plots sized 20 × 20 (400 m²), 10 of them with Inceptisols, 9 with Ultisols,
5 with Entisols B and 1 with Entisols A. All individuals with DBH ≥ 5.0 cm in the plots were
sampled in 2000, 2005, 2009 and 2015. Rates of mortality, recruitment, gain, loss and turnover
dynamics in number of individuals and basal area were estimated for each soil class. The tree
communities present in the soil classes showed no differences in the dynamic behavior to the
point of expressing edaphic fragment heterogeneity. The differences are associated with stochastic
fluctuations in rates caused by small disturbances, suggesting little influence of the soils on the
dynamics of small-scale communities.

Keywords: forest dynamics, soil heterogeneity, dynamics rates.