Increased rates of biodiversity in livestock areas through biological corridors

Abstract

The forests have been fragmented due to the establishment of agricultural and livestock areas, excessive logging of these breaks with the habitat of representative species in each region. Livestock could be an option generating environmental services in silvopastoral management, implementation of hedgerows and biological corridors (CB), and would be formed using vegetable consumption and income for the farmer. In Veracruz, ranching is found in 49.3% of the territory, to retrieve the necessary plant and animal biodiversity loss due to biological corridors livestock were established in two livestock areas of the municipality of Antigua Veracruz. Biological corridors Initial sampling was done plant species, species accumulated method was used, in some biological corridors species of trees, shrubs and grasses adapted to the region were added. One second sampling was performed and obtained an increase in biodiversity indices of Shannon and Margalef, the values from 1 to values increased to 2.5 or 3. The Simpson index did not obtain significant differences. The results of this work show that the biological corridors increase biodiversity ranching areas. It also means adding more species to obtain high levels of biodiversity.