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SHRUB FUEL CHARACTERISTICS IN THE PRIVATE NATURAL HERITAGE RESERVE CAMINHO DAS TROPAS, PARANÁ – BRAZIL

2020; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARANÁ; Volume: 50; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5380/rf.v50i3.62851

1982-4688

Celso Darci Seger, Antônio Carlos Batista, Alexandre França Tetto, Ronaldo Viana Soares, Daniela Biondi,

Bioenergy crop production and management

This research was carried out in the Private Natural Heritage Reserve (PNHR) “Caminho das Tropas”, located in Palmeira, Paraná state - Brazil, in an area dominated by natural fields. The objective was to characterize the shrub fuel of the grassy-woody steppe in the area. For the sampling, an area of 25 hectares was fenced and 100 plots sized 50 x 50 m (0.25 ha) were allocated. The plots were grouped into two treatments: one containing over 50% density and the other less than 50% density and regular distribution of shrub vegetation. The average load of fuel obtained for the first category was 1.2886 Mg.ha-1, being 0.9667 Mg.ha-1of living material and 0.3219 Mg.ha-1 of dead material. For the second category, the load was 0.9328 Mg.ha-1 , with 0.6516 and 0.2812 Mg.ha-1of live and dead fuel respectively. The average moisture content of the fuel in the first treatment was 87.90% and in the second, 81.49%. The characteristics found in the shrub fuel of the study area are compatible with the results found in the literature for Brazilian natural grasslands vegetation.