Eleventh International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

Abstract

This research addressed the ecosystemic impacts of the processes that involve the collection of native tree seeds from Amazonia and that present a high degree of complexity. In this work an optimization model was developed, whose main characteristic was the incorporation of the nonlinearities inherent to the activity in question. Its production function aims to maximize, at the phenology level, the fulfillment of the demands of collection according to criteria of priority established by the decision maker; with the objective of verifying how the particularities that make up the process of native tree seed production; making use of analysis tools and visualization of all points and bottlenecks of the supply chain. Some of the aspects to be analyzed are related to location, such as: production costs, climate and its impacts, labor costs, factors that can affect the quality of seeds collected - floods, rains, scorching sun, excessive cold and winds. From the results obtained, it was possible to guarantee a defined process of production organization and this was optimized from the simulation of the productive function of its logistic chain - taking into account all the climatic variables involved, contributing to better management and reduction of ecosystems . impacts, based on numerical results; providing credibility in the evaluations carried out and, thus, contemplating the more perfect integration of the intrinsic variables to the studied problem.