Geoambientes e solos em ambientes altimontanos nos parques nacionais de Itatiaia e Caparaó-MG

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Kleber Ramon
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/1623
• topic: Pedogênese; Altimontano; Geoambiente; Pedogenesis; Upper montane; Geoenvironmental; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::CIENCIA DO SOLO

Protected areas (PAs) of the Caparaó and Itatiaia are in alignment with mountain pronounced northeast-southwest direction of the Serra da Mantiqueira mountains, with the National Park of Itatiaia southwest of Rio de Janeiro and the south of Minas Gerais, and National Park of Caparaó southwest of Espírito Santo and eastern Minas Gerais. These two protected areas represent high mountains ecosystems dominated by altitude fields, where they differ from their surroundings by presenting endemic pedoenvironment, water stress, nutrient content and accumulation of humified organic matter. Because of the major soil and climatic differences between these areas and their surroundings, there are particular vegetation, refuge areas considered environmentally friendly. Given the lack of research of the physical environment, the goal was to study the micromorphological features of the profiles P2 and P6 of National Park of Caparaó-MG and the physical, chemical and mineralogical soil of two toposequence in each of the alignment of National Parks in the Serra Mantiqueira mountains in the portion of Minas Gerais of the Protection Areas (PAs) of Caparaó and Itatiaia, establishing relations between pedogenesis, variations litho-structural, morphology and vegetation cover. The geological foundation of the PAs is formed by syenite (Itatiaia) and migmatized gneiss, migmatite occurrence with amphibolite dikes (Caparaó). The soil toposequence of the two, regardless of the geological matrix, the depth of the solum and vegetation type that grows on them, are poor in nutrients and have high levels of aluminum saturation. The amounts of exchangeable aluminum (exchangeable acidity) are low, even negligible in the subsurface layers. This fact indicates that the action of stable complexes of aluminum and organic matter stabilizes the organic matter and make it more resistant to microbial decomposition in the high mountains environment of Minas Gerais. Poverty chemistry of these soils is mainly due to the geological nature of the matrix dominant in these high mountains environments and, in part, to losses by leaching and erosion that the system presents. These losses are associated with prominent and very busy little thickness of the solum. In these high mountains environments litholic neo soils predominate and humic cambisols, herbaceous vegetation and undergrowth and rocky outcroppings. In two toposequence studied in the area of occurrence of scrub vegetation type and field with candles, the oligotrophic, shallow soils and more exposed position in the landscape are obstacles to the occurrence of a denser forest type. The upper montane and montane forests occupy the western part of the Minas Gerais portion of National Park of Caparaó, and the atlantic fase of Itatiaia. The dominant tree vegetation (montane forest and upper montane) is conditioned by the most effective soil depth and water availability. In PA Caparaó the upper montane forest occurs on steep slopes with deeper soils in amphitheaters, which potentiate the development of denser vegetation. These forms of amphitheaters are conditioned geotectonic by the structure of fractured rocks that form the Maciço do Caparaó meso environments, corresponding to the modeled differential dissection with the deepening of drainage. In these areas of deeper soils, even if a note apparent wealth (arboreal vegetation) predominate extremely nutrient-poor soils. The occurrence of suspended structural valleys in both PAs, morphology abaca (area of sedimentation and clogging) plays a decisive role in the formation of histosols, responsible for strong immobilization of carbon. These areas of peatland in histosols with the National Park of Caparaó are responsible for the immobilization of approximately 1120.50 megagram of carbon per hectare, and 426 megagram of carbon per ha in the National Park of Itatiaia. Despite the importance of environmental and ecotourism of high mountains scenarios of Minas Gerais (Caparaó and Itatiaia), little is known about its physiographic characteristics.