The igapó of the Negro River in central Amazonia: Linking late-successional inundation forest with fluvial geomorphology

Despite important progress on Amazonian floodplain research, the flooded forest of the Negro River igapó has been little investigated. In particular, no study has previously focused the linkage between fluvial geomorphology and the floristic variation across the course of the river. In this paper we describe and interpret relations between igapó forest, fluvial geomorphology and the spatial evolution of the igapó forest through the Holocene. Therefore, we investigate the effect of geomorphological units of the floodplain and channel patterns on tree diversity, composition and structural parameters of the late-successional igapó forest. Our results show that sites sharing almost identical flooding regime, exhibit variable tree assemblages, species richness and structural parameters such as basal area, tree density and tree heights, indicating a trend in which the geomorphologic styles seem to partially control the organization of igapó's tree communities. This can be also explained by the high variability of well-developed geomorphologic units in short distances and concentrated in small areas. In this dynamic the inputs from the species pool of tributary rivers play a crucial role, but also the depositional and erosional processes associated with the evolution of the floodplain during the Holocene may control floristic and structural components of the igapó forests. These results suggest that a comprehensive approach integrating floristic and geomorphologic methods is needed to understand the distribution of the complex vegetation patterns in complex floodplains such as the igapó of the Negro River. This combination of approaches may introduce a better comprehension of the temporal and spatial evolutionary analysis and a logic rationale to understand the vegetation distribution and variability in function of major landforms, soil distributions and hydrology. Thus, by integrating the past into macroecological analyses will sharpen our understanding of the underlying forces for contemporary floristic patterns along the inundation forests of the Negro River. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.

Avaliação limnológica em um sistema de piscicultura na região de Paranaíta (MT, Brasil)

Pós-graduação em Aquicultura - FCAV

Alelopatia e potencialidade do consórcio entre rúcula e capim-cidreira

Pós-graduação em Agronomia (Horticultura) - FCA

As chuvas na bacia do Paraná: aspectos temporais, espaciais e rítmicos. -

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Impacto do aumento da concentração de CO2 atmosférico sobre o período latente e o controle biológico da ferrugem do cafeeiro

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Caracterização das trilhas de forrageamento em formigas cortadeiras de gramíneas (Formicidae, Attini): transferência de informações durante o recrutamento em Atta bisphaerica

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

As assembléias de peixes da represa de Jurumirim (alto rio Paranapanema, SP): status atual e mudanças históricas

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Ictiofauna do Córrego Rico, bacia do rio Mogi Guaçu, alto Paraná

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Modelo matemático para estimativa do tempo de fertirrigação

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

As chuvas na bacia hidrográfica do rio Paraná, Brasil: um estudo do ritmo climático e algumas considerações sobre a vazão hídrica

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A violência no espaço urbano: uma crítica Benjaminiana. Estudo de caso da cidade de Rio Claro

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

Diversidade de anuros (Amphibia) do Parque Estadual Morro do Diabo, SP

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Pouso Alegre (MG): expansão urbana e as dinâmicas socioespaciais em uma cidade média

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

AVALIAÇÃO ROBUSTA DA MODELAGEM NEUTROSFÉRICA SOBRE O TERRITÓRIO BRASILEIRO BASEADA EM MODELOS DE PREVISÃO NUMÉRICA DE TEMPO DA AMÉRICA DO SUL

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Pluviosidade, circulação atmosférica e vazão hídrica na bacia do rio Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brasil

This research sought to understand the temporal and spatial distribution of rainfall and its effect on water dynamics on a regional basis, taking into account the pace of climate paradigm. The study area covers the entire river basin of the Itajai and its surroundings understood, roughly, between parallels 26° and 28° south latitude and 48° and 50° 30' west longitude, place of constant heavy rains and floods. In this region, pluviometric and fluviometric data were obtained, the variables of rainfall and water flow, which were compiled and analyzed using spreadsheets in order to get the series with more homogeneous data as possible for good analysis, the period between 1953 and 1982. This historical period has passed in principle by an analysis which sought to highlight the variability and distribution of rainfall and water flow in the basin-level annual, techniques which were used that allowed the choice of standard year representative (rainy, dry , usual) series. These obtained years (1957, 1968 and 1971, respectively) underwent a detailed analysis on the monthly level, providing good interpretation of the dynamic behavior of rain associated with dynamic water flow for these representative years