Contribution of <i>Pseudobombax</i> aff. <i>petropolitanum</i> to Nutrient Cycling in Woody Vegetation from a Neotropical Inselberg

Carlos Antônio Araújo de Freitas

Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia, Bom Jesus do Itabapoana, RJ, Brasil.

Rodrigo Camara de Souza

Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, RJ, Brasil.

Marcos Gervasio Pereira

Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, RJ, Brasil.

Marcos Vinicius Winckler Caldeira

Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Departamento de Ciências Florestais e da Madeira, Jerônimo Monteiro, ES, Brasil.

Dayvid Rodrigues Couto

Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica (INMA), herbário MBML, Santa Teresa, ES, Brasil.

Sustanis Horn Kunz

Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Departamento de Ciências Florestais e da Madeira, Jerônimo Monteiro, ES, Brasil.

Julia Siqueira Moreau

Universidade Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Pará, Belém, PA, Brasil.

Henrique Machado Dias

Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Departamento de Ciências Florestais e da Madeira, Jerônimo Monteiro, ES, Brasil.

Dione Richer Momolli

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brasil.

CORRESPONDENCE TOMarcos Gervasio Pereira Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, Km 07, Zona Rural, BR-465, CEP 23890-000, Seropédica, RJ, Brasil e-mail: mgervasiopereira01@gmail.com.

AUTHORS’ CONTRIBUTIONS

Carlos Antônio Araújo de Freitas: Conceptualization (Equal), Data curation (Equal), Formal analysis (Equal), Methodology (Equal), Project administration (Equal), Supervision (Equal), Validation (Equal), Writing - Original draft (Equal), Writing - Review & editing (Equal).

Rodrigo Camara de Souza: Conceptualization (Equal), Data curation (Lead), Formal analysis (Lead), Methodology (Equal), Validation (Lead), Writing - Original draft (Lead), Writing - Review & editing (Lead).

Marcos Gervasio Pereira: Formal analysis (Equal), Validation (Lead), Original draft (Equal), Writing - Review & editing (Equal).

Marcos Vinicius Winckler Caldeira: Conceptualization (Lead), Data curation (Equal), Formal analysis (Equal), Funding acquisition (Lead), Methodology (Equal), Project administration (Lead), Resources (Lead), Supervision (Lead), Validation (Equal), Writing - Original draft (Equal), Writing - Review & editing (Equal).

Dayvid Rodrigues Couto: Conceptualization (Equal), Data curation (Equal), Methodology (Equal), Writing - Original draft (Equal), Writing - Review & editing (Equal).

Sustanis Horn Kunz: Writing - Review & editing (Equal).

Julia Siqueira Moreau: Writing - Review & editing (Equal).

Henrique Machado Dias: Writing - Review & editing (Equal).

Dione Richer Momolli: Writing - Review & editing (Equal).

Season	PP	OS	TL	PP	OS	TL
	Litterfall			Carbon content
	kg ha^-1
Spring	261.09 B	962.59 A	1,223.68	122.71 B	452.42 A	575.13
Spring	(87.92)	(206.12)	(272.08)	(41.32)	(96.88)	(127.88)
Summer	231.92 B	427.25 A	659.17	109.00 B	200.81 A	309.81
Summer	(112.50)	(96.49)	(119.55)	(52.87)	(45.35)	(56.19)
Autumn	990.96 A	978.35 A	1,969.31	465.75 A	459.82 A	925.57
Autumn	(231.85)	(297.43)	(359.18)	(108.97)	(139.79)	(168.81)
Winter	773.17 A	785.07 A	1,558.24	363.39 A	368.98 A	732.37
Winter	(244.68)	(601.31)	(677.90)	(115.00)	(282.62)	(318.62)
Annual	2,257.15 B	3,153.25 A	5,410.40	1,060.86 B	1,482.03 A	2,542.89
Annual	(322.13)	(683.31)	(729.16)	(151.40)	(321.16)	(342.71)

Litterfall	N	P	K	Ca	Mg	S
Litterfall	(g kg⁻¹)
	Spring
PP	9.64 B	0.73 B	4.99 A	6.51 B	2.27 B	0.89 B
PP	(0.44)	(0.05)	(0.44)	(0.19)	(0.15)	(0.13)
OS	18.28 A	2.30 A	4.48 A	14.55 A	3.52 A	1.59 A
OS	(0.07)	(0.04)	(0.29)	(0.03)	(0.02)	(0.18)
TL	13.96	1.52	4.74	10.53	2.89	1.24
TL	(0.24)	(0.04)	(0.17)	(0.09)	(0.08)	(0.14)
	Summer
PP	9.22 B	0.68 B	4.45 A	12.49 B	3.56 B	0.86 B
PP	(0.27)	(0.02)	(0.04)	(0.21)	(0.03)	(0.05)
OS	17.23 A	2.62 A	3.75 A	15.08 A	3.74 A	1.50 A
OS	(0.47)	(0.08)	(0.18)	(0.70)	(0.15)	(0.11)
TL	13.22	1.65	4.10	13.78	3.65	1.18
TL	(0.16)	(0.03)	(0.07)	(0.35)	(0.07)	(0.04)
	Autumn
PP	7.99 B	0.55 B	2.41 A	12.73 B	3.33 B	0.77 B
PP	(0.27)	(0.02)	(0.03)	(0.07)	(0.05)	(0.02)
OS	18.90 A	1.83 A	1.57 B	18.29 A	3.82 A	1.44 A
OS	(0.12)	(0.13)	(0.18)	(0.95)	(0.24)	(0.13)
TL	13.45	1.19	1.99	15.51	3.57	1.11
TL	(0.18)	(0.06)	(0.10)	(0.46)	(0.10)	(0.06)
	Winter
PP	12.76 B	1.17 A	6.09 A	8.97 B	3.59 A	1.13 A
PP	(0.29)	(0.24)	(0.42)	(0.27)	(0.17)	(0.05)
OS	15.67 A	1.39 A	2.71 B	13.76 A	3.05 A	1.22 A
OS	(0.07)	(0.03)	(0.05)	(0.40)	(0.14)	(0.04)
TL	14.21	1.28	4.40	11.36	3.32	1.17
TL	(0.12)	(0.11)	(0.18)	(0.33)	(0.15)	(0.04)
	Annual
PP	9.90 B	0.78 B	4.49 A	10.17 B	3.19 B	0.91 B
PP	(0.06)	(0.06)	(0.22)	(0.10)	(0.07)	(0.03)
OS	17.52 A	2.03 A	3.13 B	15.42 A	3.53 A	1.44 A
OS	(0.09)	(0.06)	(0.12)	(0.50)	(0.13)	(0.08)
TL	13.71	1.41	3.81	12.80	3.36	1.18
TL	(0.07)	(0.04)	(0.12)	(0.30)	(0.10)	(0.06)

Litterfall	B	Cu	Fe	Mn	Zn
Litterfall	(mg kg⁻¹)
	Spring
PP	28.02 B	7.93 B	139.61 B	246.78 B	37.53 A
PP	(0.78)	(0.30)	(17.14)	(26.37)	(1.62)
OS	70.00 A	11.75 A	183.94 A	487.78 A	50.88 A
OS	(0.65)	(1.35)	(7.20)	(12.51)	(0.99)
TL	49.01	9.85	161.78	367.28	44.21
TL	(0.51)	(0.83)	(11.67)	(14.37)	(1.30)
	Summer
PP	46.00 B	5.34 B	119.17 B	132.33 B	20.81 B
PP	(0.33)	(0.16)	(7.67)	(1.46)	(0.32)
OS	74.60 A	9.28 A	221.83 A	593.06 A	40.64 A
OS	(0.91)	(0.34)	(8.74)	(15.03)	(0.84)
TL	60.79	7.31	170.50	362.69	30.72
TL	(0.41)	(0.11)	(7.94)	(7.47)	(0.33)
	Autumn
PP	44.24 B	5.74 B	124.67 B	151.83 B	17.25 B
PP	(0.53)	(0.54)	(10.36)	(9.40)	(0.56)
OS	91.42 A	11.13 A	207.00 A	551.11 A	34.68 A
OS	(3.56)	(0.58)	(3.17)	(37.38)	(1.14)
TL	67.83	8.44	165.83	351.47	25.96
TL	(1.52)	(0.54)	(3.81)	(14.52)	(0.47)
	Winter
PP	35.86 B	9.83 A	121.83 B	127.11 B	29.83 B
PP	(1.30)	(0.69)	(7.26)	(2.00)	(1.88)
OS	45.79 A	8.22 B	319.83 A	452.78 A	37.40 A
OS	(1.12)	(0.23)	(37.26)	(15.77)	(1.16)
TL	40.82	9.03	220.83	289.94	33.62
TL	(1.00)	(0.45)	(17.40)	(8.73)	(1.45)
	Annual
PP	38.78 B	7.21 B	126.32 B	164.51 B	26.35 B
PP	(0.52)	(0.27)	(6.49)	(7.56)	(0.55)
OS	70.45 A	10.10 A	233.15 A	521.18 A	40.90 A
OS	(0.51)	(0.47)	(9.88)	(11.53)	(0.79)
TL	54.61	8.65	179.74	342.85	33.63
TL	(0.08)	(0.32)	(3.46)	(4.01)	(0.65)

Variable	Eigenvector (PC 1)	Variable	Eigenvector (PC 2)
LTF	0.53	LTF	-0.60
CT_C	0.53	CT_C	-0.60
CC_N	0.97	CC_N	0.19
CC_P	0.90	CC_P	0.33
CC_K	-0.44	CC_K	0.67
CC_Ca	0.81	CC_Ca	-0.45
CC_Mg	0.55	CC_Mg	-0.41
CC_S	0.95	CC_S	0.29
CC_B	0.88	CC_B	-0.20
CC_Cu	0.80	CC_Cu	0.31
CC_Fe	0.63	CC_Fe	0.10
CC_Mn	0.91	CC_Mn	0.21
CC_Zn	0.68	CC_Zn	0.66
Proportion of variance (%)	57.37	Proportion of variance (%)	18.40
Total variance (%)	75.77

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