Caracterización de tipos funcionales de plantas como especies indicadoras para el manejo de conservación de la zona intangible del Bosque Montano del Parque Universitario de Educación y Recreación Ambiental "PUEAR", provincia de Loja,

Intangible areas are areas which require constant care and monitoring, as conditions or environmental factors such as temperature, water, light, soil nutrients and help maintain environmental variation are different from other conservation areas. The traditional way of approaching the study of conservation areas is part of making the description of diversity, however it is necessary to start visualizing another way to study biodiversity, based on the ecological roles of each species and/or ecosystem. Identification of plant functional types based on functional features, can better understand the answer presents vegetation to various environmental factors that occur within an area or ecosystem, through the study of functional ecology becoming a new approach to biodiversity from another point of view. The role of functional ecology within plant species is evaluated through the use of functional grouping of characters or functional features that relate as each other as growth, reproduction and survival of individuals. These characters are morphological attributes, physiological and / or measurable phenological individually, which can be evaluated from the cellular level to the level of the organism. In the present study, 34 of 45 analyzed plant species were selected by criteria such as abundance permanent plot, located in the protected zone of a montane forest, belonging to the University Park and Recreation Environmental Education "PUEAR". Species belong to 25 families, where the family Rubiaceae, a total of three species is characterized as family more reports; while 93% of the remaining families are characterized by being represented by two and three species. Morphological features evaluated showed that species have a maximum height ranging from a range of 6 to 14 m, in what refers to the feature of foliar phenology, 88.24% of species assessed presents perennifolia phenology and 11.76 % is classified as deciduous; while in seed dispersal, 17.65% refers to species which exhibit anemocorous dispersion and 82.35% of seed dispersal by animals, It is is a zoochorous dispersion, being the most representative class for the association of the groups. With the information of the identified features, it carried out a statistical analysis multivariate chaining Ward and distance Gower grouping functionally species through functional features such as: Maximum height, Phenology foliar and Agent disperser, this was done with the in order to determine how species are grouped within an area preserved in a montane forest thus establishing the features and functions in a better way resemble. Thus two functional types of plants, considering the TFP1 as Perennifolio dispersion zoochorous group, and the group's Semi TFP 2 as anemocorous dispersion were determined - zoochorous, the species with the highest abundance in these groups were: (TFP1) Palicourea amethystina 165 ind / ha and (TFP2) Clethra revolute 93 ind/ha respectively. This study showed through features and functional attributes that can analyze and understand the functional and ecological relationships that occur within a plant community because they are closely related to how species acquire the resources necessary for growth, development and permanence, so establishing conservation and management measures focused on performing functionality species in ecosystems are required. Keywords: Biodiversity, functional traits, functional groups, functional ecology.

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Cuenca Suing, Henrry Paul (author)
• التنسيق: bachelorThesis
• اللغة: spa
• منشور في: 2019
• الموضوعات: BOSQUES; ESPECIES FORESTALES; CONSERVACIÓN DE ECOSISTEMAS
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://dspace.unl.edu.ec/jspui/handle/123456789/22716