Fitossociological inventory in a multistrata agroforestry system as a tool for legal reserve execution
Keywords:
Brazilian Forest Code, Fitossociology, Atlantic Rain Forest, AF systemAbstract
The legal reserve (RL) is by the Brazilian Forest Code a portion of the total area of a farm where the use of the natural resources is to be done on a sustainable basis aiming the ecological processes, and biodiversity conservation and the shelter and protection of native fauna and flora. The existence of RL has been criticized since its creation, specially by the allegation that it interferes on productive processes and
for regarding the difficulties of its implantation. The multistrata agroforestry systems (AFS) are widely accepted as a conservative management practice, even in Brazilian legislation, and it is an alternative technique for the implantation of the RL. This work, carried altogether in small farms containing multistrata AFS and natural forests regeneration tracts (some of them already registered as RL) showed that this AFS, although productive systems, hold similar number and diversity of species to the renenerating forest , satisfying the legal minimum requisites expected in RL and thus suitable to be used as a technology for recovering and managing the RL. Moreover, as its management is agroecological, it was observed the recolonization of several
native species, corroborating the potential use of these AFS in ecological restiration processes. Those agroforestry systems, however, need additional silvicultural practices
to improve forestry production and sustainability.
doi: 10.4336/2011.pfb.31.67.203
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