Percepción de servicios ecosistémicos de la Reserva Biológica Colonso Chalupas

Abstract

Abstract: The importance of ecosystem services lies in their direct contribution to well-being human, analyzing the perception of residents who benefit from these services is a essential task for understanding between productive activities and the functioning of the ecosystem, in this research the perceptions of the residents were identified adjacent to the Colonso Chalupas Biological Reserve on the ecosystem services that toasts; Based on the analysis, the ecosystem services that are most perceived are the cultural, followed by regulation and finally supply. Within the services cultural activities, the one that most predominated was tourism, probably due to its beautiful places scenic and cultural identity; In the regulation services, the air service predominated pure, probably due to the abundant vegetation; in supply services, food service predominated, which may be due to the fact that the inhabitants of the Communities grow foods such as banana, cassava, among others. The results contribute to future studies on the perception of ecosystem services. of important protected areas.