Check List 10(2): 344–354, 2014 © 2014 Check List and Authors Chec List ISSN 1809-127X (available at www.checklist.org.br) Journal of species lists and distribution Wood vegetation in Atlantic rain forest remnants in PECIES S Sorocaba (São Paulo, Brazil) OF Alessandra Rocha Kortz 1,3*, Samuel Coelho 1, Ana Carolina Devides Castello 1, Laíne Silveira Corrêa 1, ISTS 2 1 L Eliana Cardoso Leite and Ingrid Koch 1 Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), Campus Sorocaba, Departamento de Biologia, Rodovia João Leme dos Santos, km 110, SP 264, CEP 2 Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), campus Sorocaba, Departamento de Ciências Ambientais, Rodovia João Leme dos Santos, km 110, 18052-780, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil. 3Current address: University of St Andrews, Centre for Biological Diversity, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9TF, United Kingdom * CorrSP 264,esponding CEP 18052-780, author. E-mail: Sorocaba,
[email protected] SP, Brazil Abstract: The Atlantic rain forest is in a very fragmented condition due to the high deforestation in recent decades, thus even remnants of secondary vegetation may be considered important for maintaining the ecological and microclimatic (São Paulo, Brazil), a region relatively unknown in terms of vegetation. Our aims were to survey the vegetation, verify thefunctions vegetation on a regionalformation scale. in which This representsthe sampled the species first plant occur composition and identify study endangered conducted species. in the Periodic area, located samples in ofSorocaba woody plants were conducted between September 2007 and December 2009. We found 166 species, belonging to 47 families and 102 genera; ten of these species are under threat of extinction.