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T1 A Multicriteria Evaluation of Sustainable Riparian Revegetation with Local Fruit Trees around a Reservoir of a Hydroelectric Power Plant in Central Brazil
A1 Ribas, José Roberto
A1 Ribas, Jorge Santos
A1 Suárez García, Andrés
A1 Arce Fariña, Elena
A1 González Peña, David
A1 García Rodríguez, Ana
K1 Revegetation
K1 Power plant reservoir
K1 SIMOS
K1 Fuzzy AHP
K1 Brazilian Cerrado
K1 Electrotecnia
K1 Electrical engineering
AB The construction of hydropower plants often requires the flooding of large land areas,causing considerable alterations in the natural environment. In the region surrounding the reservoirof the Corumbá IV hydroelectric plant, located in the Cerrado region of Central Brazil, two types ofsoil predominate, classified as Dystroferric Red Latosol and Dystroferric Haplic Cambisol. The plantowners have to restore the degraded biome after the flooding of the margins caused by the fillingof the reservoir. An experiment was carried out with fifteen native species, selected for havingideal phytosociological properties. Nine of them showed a survivability considered satisfactory in aplanting situation, with a view to large-scale planting. Assuming that the planting of native fruittrees can be a quick solution to the attraction and preservation of wildlife, it would therefore providesustainable riparian revegetation around the reservoir. We adopted the SIMOS technique to rankthe criteria based on four morphological features and a Fuzzy AHP model to rank the contributionsof the nine fruit tree species to the sustainable restoration of part of the riparian vegetation coveraround the reservoir. In practical terms, we concluded that the soil types did not have any influenceon tree survival after two years of growth, but the native trees’ morphological features varied amongthe species. These findings simplify the large-scale planting of seedlings that must be carried out bythe operator in the riparian forest around the reservoir.
PB MDPI
YR 2021
FD 2021-07
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7271
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7271
LA eng
NO This research was funded by Corumbá Concessões S/A, grant number PD-2262-1204/2012, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, grant number RTI2018-098900-B-I00, and the Regional Government of Castilla y León under the “Health and Safety Program” (INVESTUN/19/BU/0004).
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 25-nov-2024