COMPARTMENTATION AND GEOECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LANDSCAPE UNITS IN THE SERRA DA MERUOCA-CE, BRAZILIAN SEMI-ARID REGION
Geoecological analysis corresponds to procedures, methods and techniques, whose purpose is to obtain knowledge about the environment. Therefore, the present work aims to compartmentalize and analyze the landscape units that make up the Serra da Meruoca, using the geoecology of landscapes as a theoretical-methodological basis. To achieve this, initially, a physiographic characterization was carried out, describing the components that form the landscapes, using existing data from works published in theses, dissertations, books, scientific articles and, mainly, through fieldwork. Based on the characterization of the components that form the landscapes and the superimposition, in a GIS environment, of data relating to them, the compartmentalization and analysis of the landscape units that make up the Serra da Meruoca, located in a semi-arid environment, but which differs from such an environment, configuring itself as a humid massif. In this way, it is understood that Serra da Meruoca has specific landscapes with their own characteristics, but which are interrelated through the flow of E.M.I. Therefore, it is understood that, although it is a Conservation Unit, greater preservation of its landscapes is necessary, due to its environmental relevance in the semi-arid northeast.