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HERNANDEZ BENALCAZAR, Herman. Recuperación de un ecosistema perturbado en el cerro El Castillo del Bosque Protector Mindo Nambillo. Siembra [online]. 2016, vol.3, n.1, pp.83-90. ISSN 2477-8850.  https://doi.org/10.29166/siembra.v3i1.263.

This research was carried out in El Castillo Hill of the Protected Forest Mindo Nambillo, where the heavy crude oil pipeline (OCP) route crosses. It is a life zone known as humid montane forest, also considered as Cloud Forest Montano. Along the construction of the pipeline, and 15 m wide, a strong human disturbance was caused. After three months of the caused disturbance and the rebuilding of vegetation, a study of the vegetation cover for verifying the ecosystem recovery was performed. The results were compared with the description of the baseline made by ENTRIX in 2001. Minimal Area Method was used, with 64 m2 plot size. As result, 93 species of herbaceous and woody plants, of 29 families, were found. None of the herbaceous species found in the study were observed at the inventory of the OCP baseline. Moreover, no coincidences of herbaceous plants where found between open area and interior forest. So, intervention of herbaceous pioneer species and shrubs, which migrate through several factors or which seeds latency is long-term, is probed in the recovery and recomposition of an ecosystem, and this the way how an ecosystem regenerates, recovers backs to its equilibrium state, while no other disturbances exist.

Palabras clave : disturbed ecosystems; natural regeneration; anthropogenic disturbances.

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