EVALUACIÓN DE LA COMPOSICIÓN Y ESTRUCTURA FLORÍSTICA DEL BOSQUE SECO TROPICAL DEL PARQUE HISTÓRICO GUAYAQUIL.

Abstract

Parque Histórico Guayaquil maintains, in its Wildlife Zone, a Tropical Dry Forest established with the Forest Zonification Project of 2002. Despite the ecological importance of this Project, no forest inventories or evaluation of the compliance of it’s the Environmental Magamente Plan have been made since its implementation. For this reason a forest inventory of all the species larger than and equal to 2,5 cm, planted or spontaneously germinated after 2002, dasometric measurements of diameter, height and crown and the evaluation of compliance of the established measurements, was performed. 378 individuals were identified, from 62 species and 26 families, a loss of 18% of the initial individuals. Most are between 4 and 19 cm of diameter, 3 to 9 m of height and 2 to 4 m of crown, parameters that correspond to a young forest of fast altitudinal growth. Even though there hasn’t been a periodical tracking of the management activities of the Tropical Dry Forest, a successful management in Parque Histórico Guayaquil is witnessed.