Potential cultivation areas of Euterpe edulis (Martius) for rainforest recovery, repopulation and acai production in Santa Catarina, Brazil.

ABSTRACT: Euterpe edulis is an endangered palm species that provides the most important non-timber forest product exploited in its natural habitat, the Brazilian Atlantic Forest hotspot^1,4. From 1991 to 2017, pasturelands, agriculture, and monoculture of tree plantations were responsible for 97% of Atlantic Forest deforested areas in Brazil and Santa Catarina was one of the Brazilian states with the greatest loss of forest area¹⁴. In the last decade, E. edulis fruits reached their highest commercial value, producing the southeastern equivalent of Amazonian ''açai'' (Euterpe oleracea)^5,7,8. As a shade-tolerant species, E. edulis adapts very well to agroforestry systems^8,10. To evaluate potential areas for cultivation of E. edulis through agroforestry system

SUBMITTER: de Novaes Vianna LF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10113375 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature