Page 1/19 Diversity and structure of the understory of two forest ecotones in Maranhão and the inuence of the urban environment Catherine Rios Santos ( catherineriosantos@gmail.com ) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Melissa Oda-Souza Universidade Estadual do Piauí Eduardo Bezerra Almeida Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA) Carmen Sílvia Zickel Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco Research Article Keywords: transition areas, Cerrado, Amazonian forest, phytosociology, urbanization Posted Date: January 19th, 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2464511/v1 License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License Additional Declarations: No competing interests reported. Version of Record: A version of this preprint was published at Urban Ecosystems on November 4th, 2023. See the published version at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-023-01449-2.