ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY CLASSIFICATION BINARY ANALYSIS PLANT HYDRAULICS PLANT ARCHITECTURE STABLE NITROGEN ISOTOPES LIANAS TROPICAL SAVANNAS VEGETATION DATA TREE RINGS VEGETATION-SOIL CAMBIAL VARIANTS TAXONOMIC DIVERSITY VEGETATION FUNCTIONING CLIMATE CHANGE SAMPLING METHODS TROPICAL TREE FIRE ATLANTIC FOREST ECOLOGICAL DIVERSITY EDGE EFFECTS FLORISTIC SURVEY TREE FLORA XYLEM STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION ANTHROPOGENIC NITROGEN DEPOSITION COMMUNITY STRUCTURE COHEN'S TABLE TREE SPECIES SPECIES RICHNESS TREE ALLOMETRY SIMPSON'S INDEX VARIANCE POINT PATTERN ANALYSIS LIANA-TREE COMPETITION DIVERSITY VEGETATION-CLIMATE SOIL THERMOHYDRIC REGIMES RESAMPLING WOOD DENSITY FUNCTIONAL TRAITS SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL SANTA GENEBRA MUNICIPAL RESERVE NITROGEN CYCLING DISTURBANCE ABUNDANCE RELATIONSHIPS ECOLOGICAL DOMINANCE TROPICAL WOODLAND ATTALEA HUMILIS ONTOGENETIC STAGES TREE-RING ANALYSIS SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION