THE RESTORATION TRAJECTORY IS INFLUENCED BY THE LITTER FLOW SUCCESSION TIME AS INDICATOR
Family farming; Nutrient cycling; Successional ecosystem; ecological restoration.
Amazonian ecosystems are responsible for the provision of raw materials and essential environmental services for the maintenance of society. This is possible due to the favorable climate for rapid litter decomposition rates, which in turn benefit biogeochemical cycles and ensure ecosystem productivity. In this bias, studies that quantify litter flow are crucial for forest monitoring, especially aiming at the restoration of degraded ecosystems. In the current scenario, this characteristic becomes even more important, in view of the goals adopted by the government regarding reforestation for the year 2030. Therefore, the monitoring of secondary forests in the long term through indicators such as litter, is essential to understand how time influences the trajectory of restoration in the Amazon. Given the above, this dissertation aims to provide information capable of assisting restoration plans and policies in the Amazon, through a greater understanding of the factors that influence litter flow. For this, it has a chapter which aims to evaluate, through the litter flow, the trajectory of forest restoration of an ecosystem altered by shifting agriculture. In this way, a comparison will be made between the average litter flow in the same forest fragment at the ages of 13, 20 and 33 years.