Distribución potencial y evaluación de la población de ceroxylon ventricosum en la parroquia Molleturo Cuenca-Ecuador

Abstract

material and natural regeneration were taken. The assessment determined that the species has been overexploited and for this reason a conservation plan was proposed and it based on three main guidelines: research, conservation and education Molleturo is 36% of the area of the Cuenca canton, it haves a variety of climatic floors. Here, there are a diversity of plant and animal species and habitants have been benefiting from it, an example is the Palm of wax, people of Molleturo extract the leaflets and they elaborate handicrafts in Easter, in spite of that its commercialization is prohibited. The present investigation identifies areas potentially suitable for the growth of the Ceroxylon ventricosum species through of use of a potential distribution model called Maxent, it uses records of occurrence, and climate layers formed from meteorological information. The minimum training presence value was used to determine the cut-off threshold between presence/absence, the result was 0,39; the model was validated using Kappa of Cohen statistic, the result was 0,63. There are three zones of probability of presence in the obtained map, they correspond to high, medium and low, all equivalent 10,6% of the study area, these zones have the climatic and topographic characteristics suitable for the growth of the species. At the same time, an assessment of the population of the studied species was made; parameters such as elevation, diameter, stem height, density, soil use, canopy, dominance, physical state, reproductive.