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| Author(s): |
Milene Bianchi dos Santos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2011-09-12 |
| Examining board members: |
Sergius Gandolfi;
Luiz Mauro Barbosa;
Flávio Bertin Gandara Mendes;
Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues;
Ricardo Augusto Gorne Viani
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| Advisor: | Sergius Gandolfi |
| Abstract | |
The main objective of ecological restoration is to built a forested environment and reestablish plants and animals interactions, which promotes the maintenance of local populations and the development of the restored community. Nowadays, there is concern about the quality of restored forests in the São Paulo State (Brazil), regarding their biodiversity loss, related to the landscape isolation on which they are found. Considering the fact that economic expansion and building works result on legalized deforestation, the good use of these natural resources may consist on an interesting alternative to restoration ecology. Transplanting seedlings from these condemned areas is a technique that aims to gather high diversity of species and lifeforms that can be used to enhance diversity on restored sites or secondary forests. Isolation of forest remnants raise difficulties to the arrival of colonizing species, even after a canopy is formed and therefore a suitable environment for the establishment of guilds such as understorey species is available. For that matter it is necessary to assist the introduction of new species to these areas under reforestation process, reestablishing ecological interactions and forest self- maintenance. The main purpose of this study was to analyze different techniques of diversity enhancement of a Seasonal Semideciduous Forest under restoration process. The study was taken on a forest remnant located at Santa Barbara d\'Oeste (São Paulo State). Seedlings were transplanted from a site to be legally deforested and taken to a seedling nursery. Then, seedlings of 20 species were planted on a forest remnant and presented high survival rates. At this same site, seedlings produced under nursery conditions were planted; seven understorey species of young seedlings and ten understorey species of regular sized seedlings were transplanted to a restored forest and presented high survival rates during evaluation period. The results add evidence that transplanting seedlings from forest understorey and from nurseries is a feasible technique to enhance diversity on restoring forests. (AU) | |