Levantamento quali-quantitativo da arborização urbana do município de Fênix, Paraná

Abstract

This work presents a qualitatite and quantitative survey of urban afforestation of public roads in the municipality of Fênix- PR. The urban forestry census was carried out through field collections and botanical families were classified according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and the specific epithets and their respective authors followed Flora do Brasil 2020 under construction, The International Plant Names Index and Missouri Botanical Garden. 3384 arboreal individuals were registered, belonging to 47 families and 131 species. Among the species 50,83% of the total species are native, 25,47% are exotic and 22,43% invasive exotic. The most diverse families were Fabaceae (twenty species), followed by Myrtaceae (eight), and Bignoniaceae (seve). The native species with the largest number of individuals was Licania tomentosa (Oiti) with 20,03%, and the invasive exotic species with the highest frequency was Teminalia catappa (Seven hearts) with 9,01%. In the urban environment, priority should be given preferably to species and following a standardization of the width of sidewalks and streets, further limiting the removal of toxic species, initiated by those beyond this characteristic, other problems, as a potential invader.