The region of the Venezuelan Andes is conformed by the states Táchira, Mérida and Trujillo, is one of the parts of Venezuela that presents greater contrasts of climate and vegetation, which offers a great variety of ecological floors to which to adapt. In the ecological floors there is a formation of different sequences of environmental or ecological units, defined mainly by their vegetation. In each ecological unit, there are particular environmental conditions of temperature and precipitation that can be associated with characteristic agricultural systems, for example, the wheat and forage systems in the Páramo ecological units or the coffee system in the Selva Semicaducifolia unit. The presence in the geographical space of this environmental diversity allows the Andean states to present a great variety of agricultural crops with different production systems, which in turn, have been transforming some of these units.
Source (Ataroff & Sarmiento, 2004)
Los Yaques farm, Gavidia-Mérida, Páramo ecological unit 3,000 to 4,300 m.s.n.m
Source (Perdomo, S., Sarmiento, L., & Smith, J. (2018))
Talalá farm, El Morro-Mérida, Unidad ecológica Arbustal Espinoso 500 a 1.800 m.s.n.m.
Source (Perdomo, S., Sarmiento, L., & Smith, J. (2018))
Lagunillas-Mérida farm, Unidad ecológica Arbustal Espinoso 500 a 1.800 m.s.n.m.
Source (Perdomo, S., Sarmiento, L., & Smith, J. (2018))
Source:
Ataroff, M. & Sarmiento, L. (2004). Las unidades ecológicas de Los Andes de Venezuela. En: La Marca, E. y Soriano, P. (2014). Reptiles de Los Andes de Venezuela. Fundación Polar, Codepre-ULA, Fundacite-Mérida, Biogeos, Mérida, Venezuela. pp 11-26.
López, R., & Contreras, F. (2007). Sistemas de producción agrícola sostenible en los Andes de Venezuela: Agricultura Orgánica. Avances en Química. Vol. 2(3) 23-33.
Monasterio, M. (1980). Poblamiento humano y uso de la tierra en los altos Andes de Venezuela. Capítulo 6. En: Monasterio, M. (Ed). Estudios Ecológicos en los Páramos Andinos. Editorial de la Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida-Venezuela. pp 170-198.
Perdomo, S., Sarmiento, L., & Smith, J. (2018). Diagnóstico de la agricultura alternativa en el Estado Mérida y áreas adyacentes: limitaciones, fortalezas y perspectivas de los productores. Trabajo Especial de Grado, Licenciatura en Biología. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida-Venezuela. pp 212.
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