Estudio multitemporal de la cobertura vegetal y uso de suelo de la Reserva de Producción de Fauna Chimborazo

Abstract

The present investigation proposes: to make a multi temporal study of the vegetal coverage and soil usage of the Fauna Production Reserve of Chimborazo, located among the provinces of Tungurahua, Bolivar and Chimborazo, its development implied the use of photographs areas and satellite images, by generating spacial information of different periods of time, with the aim to analyze the percentages and behavior of the soil usage and change of the vegetation and understand the dynamics that the Reserve has experimented. On this way the anthropic vegetation for the period 1962-1966 was quantified in a 0.26% and the snow in a 10.30%, meanwhile for the period 2010-2011, the percentage of intervention is increased to 9.54% and the snow decreases to 4.46%, these changes affected to the 8 ecosystems present in the Reserve: the factors that incided in these changes were the settling of the paramo, the agragarian reform law (1964), the communities that dwell in the Reserve, the introduction of the Andean camelids, the agricultural activities and climate change, by means of the adoption of mitigating measurements and recovering of the vegetal coverage, it could promote its gradual recovering, as well as a proper application of the current environmental regulation, by making necessary to socialize, involve, and aware from the present study and similar, to the competent entities to establish control mechanisms to stop the conversion processes of the soil usage and reduces the fast damage to the ecosystems present in the Protected Areas of Ecuador, on this way could generate documented information for the decision taking and a correct territorial planning. Key Words: Vegetal Coverage, Anthropic activity, ecosystems.