Restoration of degraded areas by the application of analog forestry in the province of Guantánamo, Cuba

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Analog Forest, demonstrative parcel, ecosystems, restoration, forest farm

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Wilmer Toirac-Arguelle
Estación Experimental Agro-Forestal Baracoa
José A. Bravo-Iglesias
Instituto de Investigaciones Agro-Forestales
Orlidia Hechavarría-Kindelán
Instituto de Investigaciones Agro-Forestales
Adalberto Matos-Leyva
Estación Experimental Agro-Forestal Baracoa
Arlety Ajete-Hernández
Estación Experimental Agro-Forestal Baracoa
Víctor M. Fuentes-Útrias
Estación Experimental Agro-Forestal Baracoa
Eider Suárez-Ramos
Estación Experimental Agro-Forestal Baracoa
Lourdes Sordo-Olivera
Instituto de Investigaciones Agro-Forestales
Abilio Ofarril-Coolebrook
Instituto de Investigaciones Agro-Forestales
Porfirio Villamet-Pineda
Empresa Forestal Integral Guantánamo

Abstract

The study was conducted in areas degraded by human action in the Integrated Forest Farms No. 1 and 2, belonging to Forest Enterprise Integral Guantanamo, in the village Paraguay, Guantanamo province, where demonstration plots were established and applied for restoration Analog Forestry (AF) as a silvicultural tool to design and create stable ecosystems that sustain and enhance natural resources and ecological services of an ecosystem. The results was that planted species in the demonstration plots Prosopis juliflora (Sw.); Swietenia mahagoni L. Jacq.; Colubrina arborescens (Mill.) Sarg; Azadirachta indicates A. Juss.; Conocarpus erectus L.; Guaiacum officinale L.; Moringa oleifera Lam.; Simarouba laevis Griseb.; Savia sessiliflora (Sw.) Willd., can be used in the restoration of these areas.

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Toirac-Arguelle, W., Bravo-Iglesias, J. A., Hechavarría-Kindelán, O., Matos-Leyva, A., Ajete-Hernández, A., Fuentes-Útrias, V. M., Suárez-Ramos, E., Sordo-Olivera, L., Ofarril-Coolebrook, A., & Villamet-Pineda, P. (2014). Restoration of degraded areas by the application of analog forestry in the province of Guantánamo, Cuba. Revista Forestal Baracoa, 33(1), 3-7. https://forestbaracoa.edicionescervantes.com/index.php/fb/article/view/481
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Toirac-Arguelle, W., Bravo-Iglesias, J. A., Hechavarría-Kindelán, O., Matos-Leyva, A., Ajete-Hernández, A., Fuentes-Útrias, V. M., Suárez-Ramos, E., Sordo-Olivera, L., Ofarril-Coolebrook, A., & Villamet-Pineda, P. (2014). Restoration of degraded areas by the application of analog forestry in the province of Guantánamo, Cuba. Revista Forestal Baracoa, 33(1), 3-7. https://forestbaracoa.edicionescervantes.com/index.php/fb/article/view/481

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