CERRRADO IN DISJOINT AREA IN UPLAND FOREST IN AGRESTE REGION, PERNAMBUCO, BRASIL

Upland Forest studies are very important to understanding geography of semi-arid Pernambuco State because allows to resolve questions about its physical and social themes. The knowledge about species distribution of Cerrado biome in Pernambuco State is little referred in biogeographic literature. The objective of this work is the identification of a cerrado patch inside the upland forest between the municipalities of Saloa and Iati. Thus, were identified the geosystems of the study area as well it climate pattern. Further was conducted an floristic inventory and photographic record for plant physiognomy description. The sampling was realized in an environmental unit of steep slopes with semidecidual forest with Arenosols and Ultisols with quartzite rock outcrops in a mesothermal climate with dry and hot summers. From 13 identified species, 6 are common in the cerrado biome, occurring on a tree-shrub plant physiognomy with 4 to 6 m asl. This allowssaying that Saloa-Iati upland Forest is an important nucleus to studies of cerrado biogeography, moreover about its changing belongs the recent geological time.