**Acknowledgements**

This research is part of TVB's project of the Institutional Training Program of the National Institute for Amazon Research - INPA. TVB acknowledges the financial support of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq, Brazil [process #301481/2020-2]. To Thaiane Rodrigues de Sousa for providing the worksheets to prepare the review. For undergraduate students: Gisiane Rodrigues Lima, Tamires Ferreira Muniz, Gisele Rodrigues dos Santos and Pedro Cavalcante da Cruz under the supervision of Dr. Niwton Leal Filho, from the research group on forest seeds of the National Institute for Amazon Research - INPA, who proved unpublished data for the preparation of the chapter.

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Natali Gomes Bordon1

\*, Niwton Leal Filho2

2 National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Manaus, Brazil

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1 University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil

and Tony Vizcarra Bentos2

*Ecology of the Seed Bank in the Amazon Rainforest DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94745*

under the supervision of Dr. Niwton Leal Filho.

book at IntechOpen in the book Ecosystem and Biodiversity of Amazonia",

ISBN 978–1–83,962-813-9. The data used in the chapter have no conflicting interests since there is no conflict of interest by the authors. All sources of funding were cited in the acknowledgments and all help received in the execution of the research was properly cited. The data used in this chapter refer to previously published articles and theses, as well as the unpublished data, refer to the result of scientific initiation

#### *Ecology of the Seed Bank in the Amazon Rainforest DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94745*

book at IntechOpen in the book Ecosystem and Biodiversity of Amazonia", ISBN 978–1–83,962-813-9. The data used in the chapter have no conflicting interests since there is no conflict of interest by the authors. All sources of funding were cited in the acknowledgments and all help received in the execution of the research was properly cited. The data used in this chapter refer to previously published articles and theses, as well as the unpublished data, refer to the result of scientific initiation under the supervision of Dr. Niwton Leal Filho.
