Résumé
This research was realized in the year 2009, in an area of two hectares on which, sixteen years ago, Professor Thomas van der Hammen made the planting of native species in nursery stage, wanting to recreate a forest of plain typical around the Sabana de Bogotá. The structural characterization of the vegetation was made taking into account the establishment of class intervals on the parameters of abundance, height, DAP and coverage. To characterize the types of vegetation with respect to selected attributes, the IPF, the IVI and the VIF was calculated. As a result, the consolidation of tree and shrub and the establishment of a plant structure comparable to that of the surrounding Andean forests were found. The project designed by Professor Thomas van der Hammen became a degraded area in a resilient patch of vegetation that, today and after a relatively short time, can prove that the restored areas can serve as connectors remnants of original vegetation, been an example of the possibility to recover an ecosystem from the interaction between societies and nature.