Allocation of biomass in urban tree seedlings produced in Nursery.

• Grant number: 24/08283-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2024
• End date: September 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Forestry Resources and Forestry Engineering - Forestry
• Principal Investigator: Aline Andréia Cavalari Corete
• Grantee: Edgard Bastos de Freitas Back Silva
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, Químicas e Farmacêuticas (ICAQF). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Diadema. Diadema , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Urban Afforestation is an essential part of mitigating the effects of climate change, and seedling production nurseries are not prepared for the great demand for afforestation. It is necessary to have a careful look and a lot of research in the production of seedlings, as they are the protagonists of the success or otherwise of afforestation. Currently, seedling survival is not reaching an ideal percentage and much of this is due to the development of seedlings in the production process. From this scenario, the objective of this project is to select two species most planted in urban afforestation and analyze the seedlings in a municipal nursery regarding their biomass allocation between root and part area, in addition to evaluating the development of the roots through their architecture and content of non-structural reserves and the profile of structural carbohydrates.