Carbon storage in different methodologies for forest restoration in Atlantic Forest

• Grant number: 16/21721-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: April 01, 2017
• End date: August 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Forestry Resources and Forestry Engineering - Nature Conservation
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues
• Grantee: Anani Morilha Zanini
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The rainforests are ecosystems of greater storage capacity and carbon storage, however the knowledge about the total storage in all compartments like living biomass, dead biomass and soil, are unusual mainly in areas in forest restoration process in Atlantic Forest. In this work, the object is evaluate the effect on carbono storage in differents methodologies of forest restauration in Forest biome Atlantic. Making it necessary to develop or apply methodologies for accurately estimate the total amount of existing carbono existing in different methodologies used in forest restauration. Proposing a evaluate the quantification and carbono storage in living biomass, dead biomass and soil, in total planting methodology, natural regeneration conducted, abandoned áreas with natural regeneration, native forest and pasture. The experiment will be installed on Jequitibá, Capoava and Ingazinho farms, located in Itu, a city of São Paulo state. It will be delimited areas of the region, with different forest restoration strategies. The methodologies will be the total planting methodology, areas of natural regenaration conduced, also abandoned areas with natural regeneration, pasture and native fragments. They will quantify the storage carbono in the soil, also evaluating the amount of isotopes, the storage in dead biomass above ground is divided into fallen, standing and litter. The storage in living biomass will be quantified below ground, containing coarse and fine roots, and above ground by the destructive method. A the forest inventory of the regions will be accomplished and for statistical analysis of the data, using the software R. (AU)

Scientific publications

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ZANINI, ANANI MORILHA; MAYRINCK, RAFAELLA CARVALHO; VIEIRA, SIMONE APARECIDA; DE CAMARGO, PLINIO BARBOSA; RODRIGUES, RICARDO RIBEIRO. The effect of ecological restoration methods on carbon stocks in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, v. 481, FEB 1 2021. (16/21721-6)

ZANINI, ANANI M.; MAYRINCK, RAFAELLA C.; VIEIRA, SIMONE A.; RODRIGUES, RICARDO R.. Carbon content and allometric models to estimate aboveground biomass for forest areas under restoration. RESTORATION ECOLOGY, DEC 2021. (16/21721-6)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

ZANINI, Anani Morilha. Carbon stock on 5-year-old Atlantic Forest areas under restoration. 2019. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) Piracicaba.