Plant reproduction in the Central Amazonian floodplains: challenges and adaptations

摘要: Background The Central Amazonian floodplain forests are subjected to extended periods of flooding and amplitudes 10 m or more. predictability, the length flood pulse, abrupt transition in environmental conditions along topographic gradients on banks major rivers Amazonia, powerful water sediment dynamics impose a strong selective pressure plant reproduction systems. Scope In this review, we examine how hydrological cycle influences strategies sexual asexual herbaceous woody plants. These fundamental importance for completion life cycle. Possible constraints seed germination, seedling establishment formation also covered. Likewise, discuss river connectivity species propagation persistence floodplains. Conclusions employed by highly diversified assortment different forms result contrasting successional stages zonation assemblages flood-level gradient, whose composition status continuously changing not only temporally but spatially channel.