Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e13564 doi: 10.3897/BDJ.5.e13564 Data Paper Long-term monitoring of diversity and structure of two stands of an Atlantic Tropical Forest Écio Souza Diniz‡, Warley Augusto Caldas Carvalho§, Rubens Manoel Santos§, Markus Gastauer|, Paulo Oswaldo Garcia¶, Marco Aurélio Leite Fontes#, Polyanne Aparecida Coelho#, Aline Martins Moreira¤, Gisele Cristina Oliveira Menino«, Ary Teixeira Oliveira-Filho» ‡ Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Evolution, Department of Plant Biology, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil § Science Forest Department, Federal University of Lavras, Lavras, Brazil, Lavras, Brazil | Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Belém, Brazil ¶ Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Sul de Minas Gerais - Campus Muzambinho, Muzambinho, Brazil # Science Forest Department, Federal University of Lavras, Lavras, Brazil ¤ Department of Biological Sciences, Lavras, Brazil « Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia Goiano - Campus de Rio Verde, Rio Verde, Brazil » Federal University of Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil Corresponding author: Écio Souza Diniz (
[email protected]) Academic editor: Quentin Groom Received: 05 May 2017 | Accepted: 12 Jul 2017 | Published: 19 Jul 2017 Citation: Diniz É, Carvalho W, Santos R, Gastauer M, Garcia P, Fontes M, Coelho P, Moreira A, Menino G, Oliveira-Filho A (2017) Long-term monitoring of diversity and structure of two stands of an Atlantic Tropical Forest. Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e13564. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e13564 Abstract Background This study aimed to report the long-term monitoring of diversity and structure of the tree community in a protected semideciduous Atlantic Forest in the South of Minas Gerais State, Southeast Brazil. The study was conducted in two stands (B and C), each with 26 and 38 10 m x 30 m plots.