Effect of forest use in semi deciduous forests on the Guanahacabibes Peninsula, Cuba

Abstract

This work focuses on the study of the semi deciduous forest in two sectors of the Guanahacabibes Peninsula, Cuba, with different post-harvest recovery times (> 30 and 2 to 5 years), with the aim of determining its composition and structure. Five plots were delimited at random taking into account the management history, determining 13 vegetation variables which were analyzed by the normality test by Shapiro Wilk and tested the homogeneity of variance between groups with the Levene test. The treatment of five years of forest post-harvest recovery in the locality of Cabo San Antonio is characterized by having one of the highest densities in the upper arboreal stratum and in the time of selective post-harvest recovery, the richness and density of the plant formation decreases as more strata were involved in harvesting, which delayed the recovery of the forest.

Keywords

• Aprovechamiento forestal
• estratos
• Península de Guanahacabibes
• sectores.