The present study aimed to describe the floristics and strategies of propagule dispersal, as well as the types of fruits from woody species in a semi-deciduous forest fragment, at Parque Estadual Mata São Francisco, which had suffered selective logging and became a conservation area in 1994. The survey was conducted monthly from October/2007 to July/2009 considering shrubs and woody individuals with DBH > 5 cm, resulting in the identification of 99 species and 77 genera distributed in 36 botanical families among the dispersion syndromes, zoochory was the most frequent, represented by 64% of the species, followed by anemochory (23%), and autocory (13%). The most abundant fruit was the capsule type. Comparisions with a previous study made in the same area, highlighted an increase of richness, high turnover of species and higher proportion of dispersed animal species, suggesting a successional advancement of this fragment.
Atlantic Forest; semi-deciduous seasonal forest; southern Brazil; zoochorics species
