Contenidos de carbono en áreas de restauración ecológica de la reserva Numbami, cantón Zamora, provincia de Zamora Chinchipe

Forests play an important role as sources of carbon storage or sinks, as they fix CO2 through photosynthesis and store it in their biomass. In this context, the reduction of forest cover can result in the loss of stored CO2, and negatively influences the possibility of continuing to absorb more carbon. The importance of implementing ecological restoration strategies to mitigate climate change is reflected in the opportunity to reverse or halt degradation at the landscape level, improve ecosystem services and recover biological diversity. Either through human intervention or by the ecosystem recovering itself. The present research has the objective of quantifying the carbon contents in the aerial biomass and necromass of passive and active restoration areas, which was carried out in the province of Zamora Chinchipe, Zamora canton, Timbara parish, in the Numbami ecological reserve, the sampling unit was nine permanent plots of 50 m × 50 m in areas of active restoration, passive restoration and mature forest. The passive and active restoration areas have 10 years of recovery. In each of the plots, carbon was estimated in aboveground live biomass, and carbon in necromass divided into standing dead wood, fallen dead wood and litter. After a decade of recovery, passive restoration techniques were able to accumulate 65.43 tons per hectare of total carbon, compared to 42.49 tons per hectare achieved by active restoration. On the other hand, total carbon levels in the mature forest were 138.17 tons per hectare.

• 第一著者: Tigre Naranjo, Brayan David (author)
• フォーマット: bachelorThesis
• 言語: spa
• 出版事項: 2024
• 主題: BIOMASA; NECROMASA; FIJACION DE CARBONO
• オンライン･アクセス: https://dspace.unl.edu.ec/jspui/handle/123456789/29496