Evaluating recruited trees and soil attributes in distinct ecoregions of the Atlantic Forest in São Paulo, Brazil

• Grant number: 22/10055-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Technical Training Program - Technical Training
• Start date: September 01, 2022
• End date: January 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Forestry Resources and Forestry Engineering - Nature Conservation
• Agreement: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
• Principal Investigator: Pedro Henrique Santin Brancalion
• Grantee: Isabella Ferraz Oppici
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 18/18416-2 - Understanding restored forests for benefiting people and nature - NewFor, AP.BTA.TEM

Abstract

In a previous part of this work (see TT3 proposal #2), we aimed to analyzed trees and soil attributes of forests undergoing secondary succession. The motivation to do this was to understand more about the potential of natural regeneration in different ecoregions within Brazilian Atlantic Forest (BAF), to use its conduction as a method for large-scale forest restoration. It is very important to understand about the dynamics of those forests. Therefore, the aim of this scholarship is to continue the work started at the TT3 proposal #2 and to measure attributes of trees that were recently recruited, two years after the first inventory. Soil attributes will be measured again, as well. Data acquired will be analyzed.