Inventario Floristico en los Estractos Pajonal, Bofedal y Almohadillas en los suelos del páramo de Guangopud, parroquia Juan de Velasco cantón Colta

Abstract

The present investigation is performed an inventory of grasslands strata bofedal and pads Guangopud community, Juan de Velasco parish, Colta canton, Chiborazo province. By establishing three stata based on the classification of types of land uses, determined the sample was randomly selected setting quadrants of 5*5 meters, each quadrant was divided into sub- quadrants 1*1 m and where the survery is conducted information. The study are has an area of 927,25 ha ; divided into three classes of land use and where 18 of 12 quadrants which are distributed in wasteland, 4 pads and 2 in wetland were implatend. The layer of wasteland a total of 18614 persons distributed in 8 families and 16 spieces, the moor pads registered 6 families, 8 species and 8741 persons and on the moor and wetland 7 families, 10 species and 5753 persons were identified. The Simpson index is high for stata moor (0.80); pad means (0.72) for humedal low (0.59). The Shannon index, had a mean diversity in the three study areas. The Sorensen similarity index is similar between the moor and pads and wetland (0.78). The Jaccard index between moor scrubland pads is low and middle stata for pads and wetland with a value or 63.64%. Margalef inde x to the moor is 3.51 ; 1.78 pads and 2.39 wetland. It should develop a data base like information obtained to serve as baseline data for tudies of other existing moors and be able to monitor changes in the species studied in over time.