Biomonitoramento participativo como ferramenta auxiliar na gestão de recursos

Abstract

This work had as its theme the use of participatory biomonitoring as an auxiliary tool in the management of water resources, with emphasis on phytoplankton. Despite the great importance for human survival, aquatic ecosystems have suffered the most varied impacts of anthropogenic origin, since man began to expand its territory. In an attempt to better understand aquatic ecosystems, there were different methods of environmental monitoring. Among them, we can highlight the biomonitoring by producing quick and satisfactory results. Biomonitoring is the systematic use of living organisms front responses to environmental adversities, to determine the quality of the environment. Despite the high effectiveness, biomonitoring is still not as used in Brazil, due to lack of sufficient staff to cover the extent of its entire watershed. An interesting solution to this is the training of specialized human resources and the active participation of society in the monitoring campaigns. The literature survey, it was noted that this methodology is already used long ago with some groups of animals and plants, among them stand out macrointerbrados community, fish and algae. Because it is an area less explored and produce very accurate results, biomonitoring based on the phytoplankton community needs to be strengthened in Brazil, as well as pave the way for the dissemination of knowledge. The outlook for the application of this methodology are viable and have benefits for all sides, since the affected communities will have greater access to information and participation of the drivers; environmental agencies may rely on informal community as human resource able to monitor a significant portion of Brazil aquatic extension, making the most efficient environmental assessment; the government will also benefit, as they can count on updated and reliable data to guide their management plans of water resources and finally, research institutions also gain from this, since the direct contact with the target audience their research, monitor the resolution of the needs of the region as well as the possibility of developing new methodologies and studies aimed at making the process more efficient.