Avaliação de dois métodos de restauração ecológica em áreas de APP na Fazenda Capivari – DANCO Comércio e Indústria de Fumos Ltda, Governador Mangabeira-Ba

Abstract

The current scenario in Bahia presents part of the original area covered by the Atlantic forest transformed into anthropic landscapes. Due to the intense exploitation of forest resources by human populations (wood, fruits, firewood, hunting) and the exploitation of land for human use (pastures, agriculture and forestry). Therefore, conserving what little remaining forest and efforts to restore this large deforested proportion are extremely necessary. The integrated effort to conserve and restore the Atlantic Forest must necessarily involve standardization and updating of the scientific and empirical knowledge accumulated in these themes, including a temporal contextualization of this knowledge and its translation into specific actions. In Brazil, the limitation of applied and specific knowledge of ecological restoration of tropical forests, the scarcity of professionals trained for this topic and the intense demand for emergency restoration actions have resulted, in recent decades, in a multitude of unsuccessful and little-needed initiatives. effectiveness. Therefore, the introduction of species based on the understanding of their functionality within restoration is of great importance. In this sense, the separation of species into “functional groups”, in which each group performs a function, or groups of specific functions, within ecological restoration. The results demonstrate that the method based on the definition of functional groups is superior in several aspects to the random seedling planting method. The perception of a better method can support progress in decision-making and planning for ecological restoration, at the Company Danco Comércio de Fumos Ltda. and also contribute to the advancement of forest restoration in the state of Bahia.