EVALUATION OF FOREST RESTORATION APPLIED AFTER THE EXTRACTION OF BAUXITA IN THE AREAS OF MINAGATION PARAGOMINAS -MPSA
Degraded areas; Key species; soil cover; forest restoration
In the light of the increasing appreciation of the benefits of biodiversity for ecosystem functioning and service delivery, restoration efforts are increasingly focused on restoring biological communities compositionally and functionally in disturbed or degraded areas. In addition to the numerous difficulties in restoring the composition and pre-degradation functions of the ecosystem, restoration is often in charge of maintaining these attributes resilient to future environmental changes. This study aims to determine the key species and to point out their ecological characteristics in order to subsidize the forest restoration in bauxite mining areas in the southeast of Pará, Brazil. The data for this study were compiled from forest inventories made before of plant suppression in the years 2015 to 2019 in forests whose classification was ombrófila and ombrófila densa. Only individuals with arboreal habit and with DBH above 10 cm were used. The IFSE selected 17 forest species based on statistical methodology already applied in other areas that subsidize and qualify this selection to the point that provides security for application of these species in restoration plantations in degraded areas for the study area. The ecological knowledge of the species selected in this study is of fundamental importance for the planning and execution of restoration plantations in the study area, since it will also enable the forest restoration, the economic valuation of the area.