EVALUATION OF THE PROCESS OF REABILITATION OF A STRETCH OF RIPARIAN FOREST IN ITAPEMIRIM RIVER WATERSHED-ES

The study was realized in an area of riparian forest in process by means of rehabilitation. The study area is located in Rio Itapemirim, in Alegre city, Brazil. The occupation and use of the soil before the recovery were of pasture with Brachiaria sp. The recovery of this area was in 1997, with autochthonous and allochthonous species, in casually distribution arrangement, in an area of 1,2 ha. For this studies was realized forest inventories in the periods of 2004/2005 and 2005/2006. being measured the arboreal individuals with circumference at breast height (CBH) and total heights. The species found in the area were identified and classified in this ecological groups, dispersion syndromes and wild presence, it forms calculated the floristic parameters, the vertical structure and the structural dynamics of this plantation. The objective of this work went evaluate the development of the plantation implanted to subsidize practical silviculture with relationship to the selection and plantation of species for the revegetation of degraded areas of riparian forest, in similar conditions. The results of the studies demonstrated that a forest plantation was implanted with great diversity of species and the bedding in height classes it went to the likeness of natural heterogeneous. The species identified as builders of the plantation of the studied area were: Anadenanthera colubrina, Caesalpinia leyostachia, Acacia auriculiformis, Acacia mangium, Handroanthus serratifolius, Inga edulis, Joannesia princeps, Pterogyne nitens, Enterelobium contortisiliquum, Tabernaemontana hystrix, and Anthocephalus Milieus. The implanted community's distribution diametric happens in reverse J shape having the pioneer individuals' predominance in all the classes of CBH. The dynamics of the horizontal structure points that for the success, continuity and development of the recovery of the area, the natural regeneration he monitored in relation to its presence and efficiency of the biotic factors and abiotic those interfere in the same. The not tree individuals observance in natural regeneration, in the class of inclusion of the study, indicate the initial fragility of the area heading for sustentabilidade of the system.