Urbanização e fragmentação de ecossistemas florestais o impacto da ocupação do espaço na vegetação periférica da estrada Nosso Senhor do Bonfim, no município de São Paulo d

Abstract

This research analyzed, through on-site visits and satellite images, aspects that are involved in the loss of vegetation around the Nosso Senhor do Bonfim road, in the municipality of São Paulo de Olivença, Amazonas. In this scenario, it was seen that the main factors responsible for this modification of the landscape are associated with the human insertion in natural environments, as well as the constant use of its resources, from there a new paradigm of mosaic landscape appears, surrounded by different matrices, thus resulting in forest fragmentation, this process, in turn, has several negative effects on ecosystems. Thus, the main objective of this research was to analyze the impact of space occupation on the peripheral vegetation of the road, and for this we used images from the Landsat/Copernicus Data-Sio 2020 satellite from 2011 to 2019, which enabled the analysis of the land use and occupation, and the tree community, extracting information to identify the components that make up the current local landscape composition, and verifying how tree communities behave in the face of this fragmentation. Overall, our results indicate that the unit under study is undergoing a continuous process of forest fragmentation, but manages to maintain tree diversity.