Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: HAVOLLINE ACÍBIO LIMA PEREIRA

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STUDENT : HAVOLLINE ACÍBIO LIMA PEREIRA
DATE: 22/02/2021
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência
TITLE:

EXPERIMENTAL TRAMPLING ON VEGETATION ON TRAIL BORDERS OF THE SERRA DO LENHEIRO MUNICIPAL ECOLOGICAL PARK, 

SÃO JOÃO DEL-REI COUNTY, MINAS GERAIS STATE, BRAZIL.

KEY WORDS:

Protected Areas, Environmental Impacts, Management

PAGES: 40
BIG AREA: Ciências Exatas e da Terra
AREA: Geociências
SUBÁREA: Geografia Física
SUMMARY:

Throughout the history of mankind, the human species has always used trails to reach goals. In the early days, as a travel route for hunting, collecting and returning to the shelter. Modern man continued to use trails no longer with such elementary objectives, but, to move between locations and regions, and, more recently, with the advent of protected areas (parks), the trails take on another meaning, that of providing contact with nature and other natural attractions that protected areas and natural spaces provide. However, trails have always occupied a prominent place in the life of humanity. However, the records of the vectorized environmental impacts of the trails are factual, from soil compaction, destruction of vegetation, potentiation of concentrated water erosion, introduction of exotic species, among other indirect impacts. Thus, the trails in protected areas have become an important challenge for the managers of these areas. Poorly planned, poorly maintained and poorly managed trails end up becoming vectors for the propagation of the aforementioned environmental impacts. Knowing the environmental effects of the transit of people, animals, bicycles and other motorized vehicles on the soil and vegetation that surrounds the trails of protected areas, is an important tool that generates subsidies for the management of its environmental and economic sustainability. Experimental trampling on vegetation is one of the methods, since the constant trampling of people can compromise the environmental quality of the trails, negatively influencing the experience of the visitor or ecotourist. The method proposed in this work was consolidated in 1993, being the synthesis of other experiments carried out in several countries, mainly in the northern hemisphere. Since then, Hammitt and Cole's method has become standard in several experiments in several countries and in Brazil, in an adapted way. Results obtained in different protected areas of different Brazilian and world biomes were identified. All point in the same direction, that the different trampling intensities proposed in the method, indicate a direct correlation with the destruction of vegetation, exposure of the soil and increased compaction on the surface, regardless of the biome analyzed. In the present work, it has not yet been possible to carry out the experimental procedures at the Serra do Lenheiro Municipal Ecological Park due to the suspension of field activities by UFSJ, and the failure to propose sanitary protocols for field work, such as was created for laboratory. This created a regimental vacuum, generating many doubts, not yet answered institutionally about the proposal for an official health protocol for field work, similar to that proposed for research activities in laboratories. It is expected that the results to be obtained this year, point to the same trends verified by results achieved by other authors.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1729282 - MUCIO DO AMARAL FIGUEIREDO
Interno - 1375368 - LEONARDO CRISTIAN ROCHA
Interno - 2001758 - GABRIEL PEREIRA