The Environmental Atlas of the Corumbatai Watershed - Sp, Brazil

Abstract

The Corumbatai watershed (1.710 km2 ) in the State of São Paulo - Brazil, is a well known region, mainly because one
 of the branches of the São Paulo State University - UNESP is located there, where most of the departments are related
 on environmental sciences. However all available data are in the analogical format and stored in different libraries and
 departments, which means that they are not as useful as they could be, not only for the University, but mainly for the
 society. The project followed four steps: 1 - Data Identification and Collection, 2 - Data Completion, 3 - Data
 Preparation and 4 - Data Input/Multimedia Programming. The Environmental Atlas is structured as follows:
 PRESENTATION; LOCALIZATION; ABIOTIC ENVIRONMENT: Geology, Geomorphology, Pedology,
 Climatology, Hydrology; BIOTIC ENVIRONMENT: Natural Vegetation, Forestry and crops, Fauna; SOCIOECONOMY;
 PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION; WORKING TEAM. All information was integrated through the
 FLASH 5 (Macromedia) multimedia software. The final product is available at the IGCE-UNESP's website
 www.rc.unesp.br/igce/ceapla/atlas .

Conservação e manejo de remanescentes florestais degradados em paisagem agrícola de elevada fragmentação

“…Most of the area is flat relief, only interrupted by basaltic cuestas, which still maintain larger portion of native vegetation. The basin is located in a transition of Atlantic Forest to Brazilian Savanna (Cerrado), and its vegetation is composed mostly by seasonal decidual and semidecidual forests (GARCIA et al, 2006).…”

“…The replacement of forests to agricultural uses goes back to early 19 th century, and nowadays the main agricultural land uses are sugarcane plantations and pasturelands. This region, however, has a very dynamic history, with cycles of different agricultural crops, mainly sugarcane, coffee, silviculture, and in smaller scale, row crops and fruticulture (GARCIA et al, 2006). Together with increasing urbanization, these dynamic cycles of high technological agriculture and recurrent impacts to forest remnants (such as regular fires and pesticides) have influenced the distribution of native vegetation along the basin.…”