Alejandra Betancourt Rial, Institute of Environmental and Ecological Sciences (ICAE)
2014 Conference Paper: ECOLOGICAL CORRIDORS AS STRATEGY FOR FOREST ECOSYSTEMS CONSERVATION OF THE CAPARO FOREST RESERVE, BARINAS STATE, VENEZUELA.
Alejandra Betancourt Rial y Eulogio Chacón-Moreno
ABSTRACT: "Deforestation is causing a transformation of the landscape leading an ecosystem degradation and fragmentation, with the consequent loss of biodiversity. The semi-deciduous forests in the country are critically endangered and threat due to its intervention, including plant and animal species that inhabit these forests. A conservation proposal for forest ecosystems is presented in this paper, mainly focused on the semi-deciduous forests of the Caparo Forest Reserve, establishing preliminary ecological corridors to rescue biodiversity flows, assuming that the negative consequences that may have improved connectivity in patches, are despicable for being a forest that was connected 60 years ago. For
