https://periodicos.ufsm.br/enflo <p>The conception of the online scientific journal Ecologia e Nutrição Florestal/<em>Ecology and Forest Nutrition</em> started in the Laboratory of Forest Ecology of the Federal University of Santa Maria. It publishes scientific articles, systematic literature reviews and technical notes, in Portuguese, Engilsh and Spanish languages, an on ecology and forest nutrition, with emphasis on the studies of biomass inventories, forest species nutrition, nutrient and carbon cycling, ecology of natural and implanted ecosystems, among other topics.</p> <p><strong>eISSN 2316-980X | Qualis/CAPES (2017-2020) = B4</strong></p> Universidade Federal de Santa Maria en-US Revista Ecologia e Nutrição Florestal - ENFLO 2316-980X <p>The Copyright of the articles published in the journal Ecologia e Nutrição Florestal / <em>Ecology and Forest Nutrition</em> belong to their respective author (s), with the rights of first publication assigned to the Journal. Every time an article is quoted, replicated in institutional repositories and / or personal or professional pages, a link to the article is available on the Enflo website.</p><p> </p><p>Ecologia e Nutrição Florestal /<em>Ecology and Forest Nutrition</em> is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.</p> https://periodicos.ufsm.br/enflo/article/view/88306 <p>The present study aimed to evaluate the germination potential of <em>Brosimum gaudichaudii</em> Trécul seeds. found pre-germinated in the field, expressing possible water memory mechanisms. In a Caatinga remnant in Bahia, seeds were collected from five <em>B. gaudichaudii</em> matrices in two ecophysiological conditions: pre-germinated (presenting radicles) and intact. The seeds were taken to the Seed Analysis Laboratory of the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia, two treatments were tested: intact seeds (SI) and pre-germinated (SG) with 10 replications of 10 seeds each. They were placed in a gerbox with humus to germinate in BOD at a temperature of 30ºC and a 12-hour photoperiod. Assessments took place daily. They were considered germinated from the formation of normal seedlings. ANOVA was performed and means were compared using the Tukey test (p&lt;0.05) of the analyzed parameters: germination percentage-PG, average germination time-TMG and germination speed index-IVG. The SG treatment was statistically superior, with 35% compared to the SI (18%) in PG. Both treatments were statistically similar to each other in TMG (SI=25.5 days; GS=24.7 days). SG seeds were more vigorous (IVG=0.146 seeds/days) than SI (IVG=0.076). Thus, it is concluded that the <em>B. gaudichaudii</em> seeds are capable of resuming the germination process after a period of dehydration, without losing viability, under the ecophysiological conditions found in the Caatinga.</p> Dráuzio Correia Gama Teresa Aparecida Soares de Farias Geisimara Santos de Jesus Érica Teixeira dos Santos Silvana da Costa Cunha de Carvalho Copyright (c) 2025 Revista Ecologia e Nutrição Florestal - ENFLO 2025-04-28 2025-04-28 13 e88306 e88306 10.5902/2316980X88306