Inventario de especies forestales alimenticias para primates existentes en el Parque Ecológico Recreativo Lago Agrio “P.E.R.L.A.”, ubicado en el cantón Lago Agrio, provincia de Sucumbíos.

Abstract

The present research seeks: to classify the food forest species for existing primates in the recreational ecological park of Lago Agrio “P.E.R.L.A.” located in Lago Agrio Canton, Sucumbios Province, which has a surface of 110 hectares of which are distributed in: 38.4 hectares of natural lagoon, 1.6 hectares in infrastructure and 70 hectares is made up of tropical humid forest; where a sampling was carried out with 5% of the total area of the forest, installing 35 plots of 1000 m2 each, where the primates devote 45% to the consumption of wilds fruits, 35% to the consumption of insects, 15% dedicated to foliage consumption and 5%. Resulting in the identification of 8 fruit supplying species source of food for the existing primates in the park such as the Iriarteadeltoidea, Matisiaobliquifolia, Pouteriamultiflora, Inga edulis, Inga spectabilis, Jacaratiadigitata, Pouroumatomentosa, Psidiumguajava. In addition, information was collected with 82 people; belonging to 7 families, 7 genre and 8 species, where the highest number for the importance value index was registered in the species Iriarteadeltoidea with 36.91%; followed by Matisiaobliquifolia with 15.82%; Pouteriamultiflora with 15.8%; Inga edulis with 12.92%; Inga spectabilis with 10.13%; Jacaratiadigitata with 6.10%; Pouroumatomentosa with 2.90% and in smaller proportion the Psidiumguajava L. with 0.86%. KEYWORDS: FOOD FOREST SPECIES - PRIMATES - A TROPICAL HUMID FOREST.