Monitoreos participativos comunitarios aplicando técnicas de muestreo con escarabajos coprófagos como indicadores ambientales de los ecosistemas de las parroquias de Tundayme y El Guismi, cantón El Pangui.

Abstract

Participatory monitoring emerged in order to generate the empowerment of the population in activities related to the environment, through the application of coprophagous beetles as indicators of environmental quality in the rural parishes of Tundayme and El Guismi in the canton of El Pangui, province of Zamora Chinchipe. which was applied a pilot plan with the drift or transect technique and the democratic-participatory networks technique, acquiring a better acceptance by means of the drift or transect technique; Theoretical-practical workshops were also carried out and a semi-structured interview was applied, in which the degree of knowledge reached by the participants was measured, obtaining that the participating group feels capable of monitoring without supervision of a technical group; Likewise, two sampling areas (Intervened Forest and Not Intervened Forest) were established in each parish, using pit traps to capture coprophagous beetles that helped to determine the quality of these ecosystems, obtaining as a result that the Intervening Forests present less abundance and wealth that the Forests Not Intervened.