Cobertura vegetal das regiões urbanas de Juiz de Fora - MG

Abstract

The vegetal covering, understood as a set of arboreal typology, creeper shrub, consists of an important element that composes the cities and provide a lot of befits such as ecological, social, and esthetical. In this way, the knowledge about vegetal covering throughout the cities is an important issue in order to identify its best features for communities as well as to promote environmental policies for improves the vegetal covering displacement around cities. Thus, regarding the relevance of this natural resource, the aim of this work was identify the vegetal covering that exists at administrative regions of Juiz de Fora city. On the one hand the results shown that the vegetal covering is homogeneity distributed with larges fragments at peripheral regions. On the other hand a small remaining of vegetal covering was found at northwest and southeast regions of city which reveal an intensive process of use and occupation of the ground. Thus, we found sparse and punctual vegetal stains at downtown, typical of isolated category, defined by researcher Jim as impermeable dominants areas. While at cities’ board areas, it can be found connected type vegetal covering which is characterized by continuous green urban presence with larger extension. Such issues reflect directly at vegetal covering index results we have found, in which the downtown indexes are smaller than others regions evaluated. As far as urban spaces of integration as well as building free regions are concerned we can observe scarce vegetative elements. At urban spaces of integration we find only 2,1 % of regions have vegetative elements, while at building open spaces has 1,5 % as well. Therefore, the results have shown that there are demands for improvements in these environments in order to contribute effectively for the human well-being.