La ganadería caprina como un servicio ecosistémico: Los efectos de la degradación del bosque seco sobre la productividad de las cabras en el cantón Zapotillo.

Abstract

The goat cattle has as livelihood extensive grazing of forage provided by vegetation. The dry forest is the main food of goats in the canton Zapotillo, province of Loja. The goats provide an ecosystem service of provision to communities near the forest, so their degradation could affect the productivity of goats. In this study was evaluated the relationship between stocking goat, goat productivity and forest density. It is used goat population surveys and rose information about goat productivity in three types of dry forest, relate some variables such as vegetation cover with the number of goats, density producer with the number of hatchlings, etc. These variables were analyzed in the programming environment R Project, version 6.1. The results indicate that there are differences in productive activity and also that they are defined by variations in the number of goat producers by sector, the total number of goats and productivity. Therefore, the conclusion is that there is a relationship between stocking density and density of the forest, which influences in the goats livestock dynamics of the canton