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Abstract We examined the relationships between topography, soil properties and tree species compo-sition in a Neotropical swamp forest in southeastern Brazil. Plots were sampled in the forest, encompass-ing three different soil ground water regimes along the topographical declivity. All non-climbing plant individuals with trunk height [1.3 m were sampled. A canonical correspondence analysis—CCA—of the species–environmental relationships grouped tree species according to drainage and chemical soil conditions. A total of 86 species were found, being 77 species in the inferior, 40 species in the intermediate and 35 species in the superior topographic section. Some species were among the 10 most abundant ones, both in the overall sampled area and in eac