Every year flood events lead to thousands of casualties and significant economic damage.
Mapping the areas at risk of flooding is critical to reducing these losses, yet until the last few …

As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate
and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing …

Water and sediment inputs are fundamental drivers of river ecosystems, but river
management tends to emphasize flow regime at the expense of sediment regime. In an effort …

The role of externally imposed sediment supplies on the evolution of meandering rivers and
their floodplains is poorly understood, despite analytical advances in our physical …

The fish faunas of continental South and Central America constitute one of the greatest
concentrations of aquatic diversity on Earth, consisting of about 10 percent of all living …

River systems connect the terrestrial biosphere, the atmosphere and the ocean in the global
carbon cycle. A recent estimate suggests that up to 3 petagrams of carbon per year could be …

Today, 93 percent of freshwater drainage off South America runs into the Atlantic. South
America's drainage pattern was shaped by its persistent Guyana and Brazilian continental …

Wetland extent was mapped for the central Amazon region, using mosaicked L-band
synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery acquired by the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite …

Large fluvial systems adjust to a combination of controls to form distinctive channels, which
represent a dominant factor in the evolution of floodplain geomorphology and …

A series of laboratory experiments demonstrates that riparian vegetation can cause a
braided channel to self‐organize to, and maintain, a dynamic, single‐thread channel. The …