Phenology of Butia catarinensis in the Southern Coastal Region of Santa Catarina, Brazil
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This study evaluated the phenology of Butia catarinensis in shrubby Restinga and under the understory of eucalyptus monoculture (Eucalyptus saligna and Eucalyptus paniculata) along the southern coast of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Phenological data were collected monthly over a one-year period. Butia catarinensis exhibits an annual, asynchronous reproductive cycle, showing higher flowering and fruiting rates in spring and summer, with reduced reproductive activity during winter. Precipitation had minimal influence on its reproductive cycle; however, higher temperatures and increased solar radiation positively correlated with the development of green and ripe fruits year-round. The lack of significant differences between the two study environments indicated that the eucalyptus monoculture microclimate did not affect flowering and fruiting quantities of B. catarinensis, though it may have influenced phenophase timing, potentially accelerating, delaying, or extending these events.
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Authors: Authors should present an objective discussion of the significance of research work as well as sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the experiments. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. Review Articles should also be objective, comprehensive, and accurate accounts of the state of the art. The Authors should ensure that their work is entirely original works, and if the work and/or words of others have been used, this has been appropriately acknowledged. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. Authors should not submit articles describing essentially the same research to more than one journal. The corresponding Author should ensure that there is a full consensus of all Co-authors in approving the final version of the paper and its submission for publication.
Editors: Editors should evaluate manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic merit. An Editor must not use unpublished information in the editor's own research without the express written consent of the Author. Editors should take reasonable responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper.
Reviewers: Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should be conducted objectively, and observations should be formulated clearly with supporting arguments, so that Authors can use them for improving the paper. Any selected Reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the Editor and excuse himself from the review process. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
