ECOLOGICAL-FUNCTIONAL INTERACTIONS PROCESSES AND ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS IN FOREST RESTORATION EXPERIMENTS
Ecosystem services, Resilience, Forest Management, Biodiversity, Climate Change Mitigation
This research is divided into two chapters. The first reviews the integration of ecological-functional processes and carbon storage in forest restoration experiments in Brazil, the systematic review followed the protocol developed by Pullin and Stewart (2006), keywords and Boolean operators were determined for later consultation in databases of Web of Sience and Scopus, the final set included 19 documents that met the criteria in 14 journals published between 2015 and June 2022, recording 75 experimental forest restoration units. Linear regression models were applied to measure the effect of the studied variables on the aboveground biomass (AGB) content, found significant relationships between the type of passive restoration, temperature and precipitation with the AGB content, in addition, they obtained Higher AGB levels were found in experiments that used a mixture of native and introduced species in forest restoration. The second chapter shows the results of monitoring 771 seedlings of 54 forest species planted in 2011 in 8 forest restoration areas in the National Forest of Goytacazes, Linhares. The objective was centered on analyzing which species groups led to better results in the growth and survival of the planted species and for the same aimed at a more efficient forest restoration, for which quarterly monitoring was carried out in the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 to collect data on mortality, herbivory, regrowth and functional traits: height (H) and crown diameter (DDC), wood density (DMS), maximum diameter (Dmax) and maximum height (Hmax). Functional groups of the monitored species were calculated, obtaining 2 functional groups, thus, Functional Group 1 (GF1) formed by 9 species achieved lower mortality cups (4.85 %) and herbivory (0.89 %), and higher regrowth cups (3.07 %) compared to Functional Group 2 (GF2) (5.14 %, 0.91 %, 1.49 %) composed of 45 species. In addition, GF1 species aim to achieve greater growth in terms of Hmax and DMS (maximum values) compared to GF2 species, but GF2 until the last year of monitoring reached a higher average than GF1 while H and DDC, in addition, the Wilcoxon Mann Whitney Test confirmed a higher median of H and DDC values in GF2 compared to GF1.