Biogeographic Determination (Life Zones) in the Province of Pichincha

EasyChair Preprint 6519

Abstract

In the province Pichincha, the management of ecological zones guarantees the quality and quantity of water in the basins and hydrological sub-basins; However, deforestation and deterioration of the vegetation cover put the remnants of their forests at risk, since the destruction of natural resources directly affects the water supply and its quality. In this context, programs for the conservation and protection of wildlife areas direct their efforts to the organizational aspect, thus involving communities, their leaders and, educational institutions as primary actors for conservation and environmental protection, always trying to determine the areas with similar groupings of plants and animals. In this sense, considering the orography of the Guayllabamba river sub-basin, preliminary information is obtained from the analysis of the agency (INAMHI), which has temperature, precipitation, and hydrology data at the national level registered through automatic stations located at strategic points; taking as a point of reference for climate analysis, the AJ Cubi hydrological station that encourages triangulation and closure of areas. It should be noted that the essential parameters to determine in a general way the existing resources of a region are temperature, precipitation, and evapotranspiration, consequently, for this research a comparative analysis is carried out based on the Holdridge model, which affirms that the aforementioned factors have a direct relationship with biological development in a defined ecosystem, The phrase concluding that the sub-basin has physical and biological characteristics of a humid low montane forest.

Keyphrases: Cuenca, Holdridge, Precipitación, Temperatura, Zonas de vida, evapotranspiración potencial, evapotranspiración real, pisos biogeográficos

@booklet{EasyChair:6519,
  author    = {Héctor Xavier Pérez Acosta and María José Anrango Pavón and Gabriela Evelyn Villagran Freire and Daniel Efráin Ortiz Tabango and Lizeth Geovanna Chela Chugchilán and Leonardo Fabricio Fernández Tutasig},
  title     = {Biogeographic Determination (Life Zones) in the Province of Pichincha},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 6519},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2021}}