The process of natural regeneration and ecosystem restoration in former forest production areas / O processo de regeneração natural e a restauração de ecossistemas em antigas áreas de produção florestal

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

In Forest Companies that cultivate fast-growing forest species for industrial supply, it has been usual the existence of commercial production areas that need to be converted in protected areas with native vegetation. Nevertheless, depending on local conditions and landscape context, the natural regeneration process is not enough to guarantee the successional development This work aimed at investigating the natural regeneration process and the effectiveness of some forest restoration techniques to be applied in large scale in, former Eucalyptus sp and Pinus sp plantations, which were abandoned to be incorporated as protected areas. The project was developed at Borebi municipality, SP, in two forest farms, one comprising latu sensu savana formations, and the other corresponding to seasonal semideciduous forest. In each experimental area a complete randomized block experiment with five treatments and five replicates was installed, with 30 x 30 m plots. The treatments were: T1: control; T2: direct seeding of 10 fast growing forest species; T3: conventional planting of 19 species with different growth characteristics; T4: management of natural regeneration by silvicultural treatments; T5: tillage of ground vegetation cover and plowing. Natural regeneration was surveyed before and 12 months after the experiment installation, when all woody individuals with height 1.30m were measured; the individuals with height 0.50m and <1.30m were surveyed in three 1 x 30m subplots within each plot. The soil seed bank was sampled before and two times after the treatments, were 315cm² and 5cm depth samples formed 2 composite samples by each plot. Seed rain was studied by five 0,50 x 0,50m litter traps installed in each plot. The soil seed bank and seed rain had a low percentage of woody species and high density of some nonconstituent invasive herbaceous species. The natural regeneration showed a predominance of early successional species, but was dominated by nonconstituent species. The higher similarity in species composition occurred between the natural regeneration and the seed rain, and the smaller between the natural regeneration and the soil seed bank. The regeneration management treatment (T4) showed a significant effect in basal area, density, species diversity and species richness of natural regeneration after 12 months, indicating to be the most viable ecologically and economically in comparison with the other, for the local conditions.

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natural regeneration forest restoration. soil seed bank sementes. seed rain plantas nativas [regeneração] reflorestamento commercial reforestation ecologia florestal ecossistemas florestais

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