NUCLEI OF DESERTIFICATION IN STATE OF PARAÍBA

Abstract

The present work boards desertification problem in Paraíba who directly is related to degradation produced by the man in the stunted sparse forest and in the environmental terms and fitogeography of this geoecosystem. The domain geoecology of the stunted sparse forests extends for about 1037.517,80 km², under the latitudes between tropics, comprehended between 2º 45’ and 17º 21’ LS.  Its area corresponds to 54% of the region Northeast and to 11% of the brazilian territory; it constitutes the droughts called polygon. In the stunted sparse forest the woody species call the attention for their biological forms and by the dominant position in the formation structure. In magnitude function of these characteristic, that corresponds to the largest problem in desertification cores generation in state of Paraíba. These woody species of rickety postage are the appreciated most for the burning in coal-pits, bakeries oven, etc. they are fácies more drought and degraded of the stunted sparse forests. Another aspect to observe is that to the natural fragility of this ecosystem brings serious consequences for geótopos and for biocenoses, as well as, the devastation practice of great spaces by the burnt for the pasture areas, provoking great unbalance in the ecosystem and contributing with the earth’s degradation process. That work points a series of surveys that emphasize that process in state of Paraíba, as well as, a contribution for contention of their effects.