Caracterización ambiental de Agaves nativos para la restauración ecológica en una microcuenca de La Sierra Gorda de Guanajuato

Abstract

Water erosion has disturbed the structural and functional conditions of productive and forest ecosystems, its restoration requires actions that integrate the participation of social actors, scientific and traditional knowledge that integrate the spatial delimitation of the problem and the most suitable plant species. Agaves have physical and biological characteristics to transfer to ecological restoration, and have already been tested in Mexico and other countries, therefore the objective is to structure a restoration proposal with native Agaves in the El Potrero micro-watershed in San Isidro Corralillos, Victoria, Guanajuato. Supported by the method of functional groups of plants, an interview, participatory cartography and a participatory diagnosis to learn about the traditional uses of the Agaves and a participatory workshop where the restoration proposal was structured. A restoration proposal formed by conservation practices that incorporate three groups of Agaves characterized to favor their environmental adaptation and with traditional uses, perspectives of use are generated in seven places of forestry and productive interest that show ecological disturbance. Ecological skills, traditional uses of native Agaves and the participation of social actors are used for the ecological restoration of the El Potrero micro-watershed.