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

Abstract

In the present investigation there were used participative community monitorings by the application of coprophagous beetles as environmental indicators in the Pachicutza rural parish and the El Pangui Urban Parish. There was realized a socialization that consisted of 2 stages, the first one that took root in the production of a pilot plan with different methodologies for the summons and participation of people " Motive group " and " rural Participative Diagnosis", of which the rural participative diagnosis had major acceptance, for what one proceeded to realize the second stage in which there developed workshops, of participation on the basis of the rural participative Diagnosis the same one that had better results using interviews semistructured to measure the level of knowledge acquired by the participants Finally there were established 2 zones of sampling, Forest Intervened and Forest Not Intervenes for the capture of coprophagous beetles where I capture in the parish Pachicutza individual 270 of which, 235 were in FNI and 35 of FI, likewise in the parish The Pangui I collect 240 individuals, 181 correspond to FNI and 59 for FI.