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[pt] A compreensão da estrutura e funcionalidades ecológicas inscritas na transformação da Mata Atlântica fluminense, compreendida por fragmentos florestais em meio à crescente urbanização, são de suma importância ao entendimento do conteúdo da paisagem via história ambiental e ecologia da paisagem. A complexidade ambiental característica da contemporaneidade geográfica instaura a coadunação de diversas abordagens tanto epistemológicas quanto metodológicas na apreensão da paisagem enquanto mosaico e resultante das multiescalares intervenções de seus elementos fundantes: estruturais e funcionais. Tais elementos encontram-se estabelecidos sob diferenciadas condições devido à orientação da encosta –vertentes soalheiras e Noruega - apresentam níveis de umidade, temperatura e precipitações diferenciadas em até 160 porcento. O estudo utiliza os parâmetros e métodos de análise ambientais como: fitossociologia, físico-química do solo, aporte, decomposição e retenção hídrica de serrapilheira na compreensão da resultante ecológica das distintas orientações e sítios topográficos. Para tanto a influência de tais variáveis na produtividade florestal foram analisadas utilizando-se 12 coletores de serrapilheira no sítio amostral da bacia do Camorim – sítio St. Agostinho, relancionando-os aos dados de pluviosidade da estação meteorológica do Riocentro (GEORIO). Foram realizadas coletas quinzenais para a produção e trimestrais para o estoque de serrapilheira durante um ano. A produção de serrapilheira na orientação NE (bacia do Camorim) foi de 10.733,80 kg.ha.ano-1 e superior em relação à orientação SW no mesmo período (Bacia do Caçambe), com 9.463,88 kg.ha.ano-1, sendo a fração folhas preponderante às demais. Os resultados sugerem a influência tanto dos usos pretéritos – legado dos carvoeiros, quilombolas e agricultores tradicionais – quanto das variáveis ecológicas – orientação de encosta, sítio topográfico, precipitação e a condição vegetacional da floresta atlântica, etc. Entretanto, os limites analíticos vão além da impossibilidade de generalizar e simplificar a paisagem. As imprecisões científicas – comuns aos diversos campos epistemológicos – inscrevem-se na abordagem co-evolutiva ao apontar os desafios da padronização e modelagem da paisagem. A transformação da Mata Atlântica mesmo que no recorte espacial (bacias do Camorim e Caçambe) adotado, não é passível de simplificação analítica e os resultados obtidos confirmam tais limitações. / [en] The comprehension of the ecological structure and functions wrote by transformation of Atlantic Rainforest, understood as forest fragments involved by rising urbanization, is of basic importance in the understanding of the landscape by Environmental History and Landscape Ecology. The characteristically environmental complexity of the contemporary Geography settles the approaches convergence both epistemological as methodological in the landscape understandings, so as a patch and as a resultant of the multiscalar actions of their foundations elements: structurals and functionals ones. These elements are found under different conditions due to slope aspect – with different humidity, temperature and rainfall almost as 160 percent in the north slope. The currently study uses some parameters and environmental analysis as: phytosociology, soil phical-chemestry and litterfall production, decomposition and hydrological retention capacity in the understanding of the ecological resultants of the different orientation and topographic sites – soalheira and noruega slope. To investigate the influence of these variables on the forest productivity the litter dynamics were analyzed employing 12 littertraps randomly distributed at the sample site in Camorim basin – St. Agostinho site, and investigating the relation between pluviosity regime using rainfall data from GEORIO Metereological Station of Riocentro. The samples were collected at each 15 days for litter production and at three months for litter stock during one year. The litter production at NE aspect (Camorim Basin) was 10.733,80 kg.ha.ano-1 and greater than that found at Caçambe Basin (SW) - 9.463,88 kg.ha.ano-1, with leaf fraction greater than the others. The results suggest that the past uses - environmental legacy of the use of the coal collectors, quilombolas and traditional agriculture – and the ecological variables – slope aspects, topographic sites, precipitation, and rainforest vegetal condition etc. Despite that, the analytical limits bypass the impossibilities of landscape simplification. The science inaccuracies – common to all epistemological science areas – are written on the coevolutive approache when shows the challenges of landscape standardization and modeling. The rainforest transformation, even in the case of a well known adopted area (Camorim and Caçambe basins), were not easy to an analytical simplification as was demonstrated by the observed results.

La Manche orientale représente une zone économique importante qui supporte diverses activités anthropiques comme le tourisme, le transport maritime et l’exploitation de ressources vivantes ou minérales. De plus, cette région possède un riche patrimoine biologique illustré par sa grande diversité d’habitats. Les Aires Marines Protégées (AMP) sont souvent évoquées comme un instrument de gestion permettant d’aménager l’exploitation durable de ces ressources marines, dans le cadre d’une gestion écosystémique intégrée et responsable. Si les Etats ont pour obligation de créer des réseaux d’AMPs dans leurs eaux nationales, chacune d’elles est souvent localisée au cas par cas. Afin de coordonner la mise en place des différents réseaux d’AMPs, une démarche de planification spatiale systématique de la conservation est de plus en plus encouragée. Cette démarche a pour but de proposer un réseau d’AMP qui soit cohérent, même dans un contexte transfrontalier, comme c’est le cas en Manche orientale. Les travaux de recherche menés lors de cette thèse apportent ainsi une contribution scientifique à la mise en cohérence de l’aménagement des activités anthropiques avec les objectifs de conservation de l’écosystème marin de Manche orientale. Dans le cadre d’une approche de conservation intégrée, toute la biodiversité de la Manche orientale doit être représentée. Pour cela, en complément des typologies benthiques existantes dans la zone, une typologie des masses d’eau a été proposée et validée avec différents jeux de données d’espèces pélagiques. Marxan et Zonation, deux logiciels largement répandus en planification de la conservation ont été comparés dans le processus de conception du réseau d’AMP en Manche orientale. La conclusion a été que Marxan serait le logiciel utilisé pour la suite des analyses. En effet, ce logiciel est conçu pour atteindre clairement les cibles de conservation, ce qui facilite l’interprétation des résultats.Puis une étape essentielle de planification de la conservation a été réalisée à travers une analyse des lacunes (gap analysis) à l’échelle de la Manche orientale. Elle a permis de montrer que le réseau d’AMP existant atteint les cibles de conservation calculées dans cette thèse et qu’il couvre 33% de la Manche orientale. Il faut toutefois noter que l’étude des possibles lacunes au niveau de la gestion des AMPs n’a pu être réalisée de façon approfondie car la majorité de ces AMPS ne possèdent pas encore de plan de gestion défini.Finalement, l’influence de l’intégration des activités humaines dans le processus de conception du réseau d’AMP a été explorée grâce à l’utilisation de données d’effort de pêche et de données de débarquements. De plus, d’autres informations sur le trafic maritime, les extractions de granulats marins et les potentielles zones d’éoliennes en mer ont été ajoutées pour prendre en compte la totalité des usages et réglementation qui génèrent des contraintes spatiales en Manche orientale. / The eastern English Channel is a significant economic area that supports a number of human-based activities, such as tourism and recreational activities, international ports and shipping, and the extraction of both living and mineral resources. In addition, the region supports a number of important marine biological features and large habitat diversity. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are increasingly used as a management tool to foster a sustainable exploitation of marine resources in an ecosystem based management framework. All European countries have a legal obligation to develop MPA networks in their national waters. However, there has to date been only limited attempts to coordinate the design and positioning of such networks at an international level and the use of a systematic conservation planning approach is now recommended. This process aims to propose a coherent MPA network, even in a trans-boundary context as in the eastern English Channel (EEC). The studies conducted in this thesis contribute to the scientific knowledge needed to support both anthropogenic activities and conservation objectives in the eastern English Channel.The representation of the whole biodiversity of the eastern English Channel is important in a context of an integrated conservation approach. With this objective, to complete the existing benthic typologies, a pelagic typology was produced and validated with various pelagic species distribution data to ensure that the total biodiversity of the eastern English Channel would be considered.Marxan and Zonation, two widely used conservation planning software packages that provide decision support for the design of reserve systems were compared in the MPA network design process in the EEC. It was found that Marxan was most suitable for subsequent analyses in this thesis because it found reasonably efficient and clear solutions to the problem of selecting a system of spatially cohesive sites that met a suite of biodiversity targets, and the results were easily interpretable.Then, as it is an essential step in a conservation planning approach, a gap analysis was realized at the scale of the EEC. The currently proposed network met conservation targets proposed in this thesis and was found to cover 33% of the EEC. However, a correct assessment of management gaps was not possible as a major part of these MPA do not have management rules yet.Finally, the influence of the human activity data on the MPA design process was studied using landings and fishing effort data. Other information on maritime traffic, aggregate extraction or offshore windmills zones, and on-going MPA projects were also added to consider the whole set of uses and regulations that generate spatial constraints in the eastern English Channel.