title: Species composition, community and population dynamics of two gallery forests from the Brazilian Cerrado domain.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To understand the impacts of global changes on future community compositions, knowledge of community dynamics is of crucial importance. To improve our knowledge of community composition, biomass stock and maintenance of gallery forests in the Brazilian Cerrado, we provide two datasets from the 0.5 ha Corrego Fazendinha Gallery Forest Dynamics Plot and the Corrego Fundo Gallery Forest Dynamics Plot situated in the Bom Despacho region, Minas Gerais, Southeastern Brazil.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We report diameter at breast height, basal area and height measurements of 3417 trees and treelets identified during three censuses in both areas.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Evolution, Department of Plant Biology, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil.
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gastauer
authors.affiliation: ArcelorMittal Bioflorestas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
authors.forename: Roosevelt P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Almado
authors.affiliation: State University of Minas Gerais, Campus Frutal, Frutal, Brazil.
authors.forename: Angela S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Miazaki
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Evolution, Department of Plant Biology, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil.
authors.forename: Écio S
authors.initials: ÉS
authors.lastname: Diniz
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Evolution, Department of Plant Biology, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil.
authors.forename: Luis C B
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Moreira
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Evolution, Department of Plant Biology, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil.
authors.forename: João A A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Meira-Neto
keywords: Brazilian Cerrado; Gallery Forest; forest inventory; savanna vegetation; species richness; tropical forests