Geodiversity in the Amazon drainage basin

CME Alsbach… - … Transactions of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Amazon is the largest drainage basin on Earth and contains a wide variety of abiotic
landscape features. In spite of this, the geodiversity in this basin has not yet been objectively …

Baited remote underwater video as a promising nondestructive tool to assess fish assemblages in clearwater Amazonian rivers: testing the effect of bait and habitat …

K Schmid, JA Reis-Filho, E Harvey, T Giarrizzo - Hydrobiologia, 2017 - Springer
Baited remote underwater video (BRUV) systems are being used in marine ecosystems as a
nonextractive, cost-effective method of assessing the fish fauna with minimal species bias …

[HTML][HTML] Gold at what cost? Another megaproject threatens biodiversity in the Amazon

RM Tófoli, RM Dias, GHZ Alves, DJ Hoeinghaus… - Perspectives in Ecology …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Xingu River, located in northern Brazil, is already under the impacts of one of
the most harmful projects in the history of the Amazon–the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam. A …

[HTML][HTML] The fate of carbon in sediments of the Xingu and Tapajós clearwater rivers, Eastern Amazon

DJ Bertassoli Jr, AO Sawakuchi… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The Xingu and Tapajós rivers in the eastern Amazon are the largest clearwater systems of
the Amazon basin. Both rivers have “fluvial rias”(ie, lake-like channels) in their downstream …

[PDF][PDF] Fossil diatoms reveal natural and anthropogenic history of Jackson Lake (Wyoming, USA)

J Dilworth, JR Stone, KM Yeager, JR Thigpen… - … Science, Systems and …, 2023 - escubed.org
Jackson Lake supplies valuable cultural and provisioning ecosystem services to the Upper
Snake River watershed in Wyoming and Idaho (western USA). Construction of Jackson Lake …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon dioxide () concentrations and emission in the newly constructed Belo Monte hydropower complex in the Xingu River, Amazonia

KR de Araújo, HO Sawakuchi, DJ Bertassoli Jr… - …, 2019 - bg.copernicus.org
Abstract The Belo Monte hydropower complex located in the Xingu River is the largest run-of-
the-river (ROR) hydroelectric system in the world and has one of the highest energy …

Spatiotemporal variations of riverine discharge within the Amazon Basin during the late Holocene coincide with extratropical temperature anomalies

DJ Bertassoli Jr, AO Sawakuchi… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Late Holocene hydroclimate variations have been extensively recognized in Amazonia, but
the effects of such changes on riverine discharge within the Amazon lowlands are still poorly …

[PDF][PDF] Effect of dam emplacement and water level changes on sublacustrine geomorphology and recent sedimentation in Jackson Lake, Grand Teton National Park …

MM McGlue, JR Dilworth, HL Johnson… - … Science, Systems and …, 2023 - escubed.org
ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 17 January 2023 doi: 10.3389/esss. 2023.10066
characterization driven by hydroclimate change. Because the Teton fault is a major seismic …

[HTML][HTML] Biotelemetry reveals migratory behaviour of large catfish in the Xingu River, Eastern Amazon

L Hahn, EG Martins, LD Nunes, LF da Câmara… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
We used a combination of radio and acoustic telemetry to assess the movements of large
catfish (Pimelodidae) in the Xingu River, a clearwater tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil …

[HTML][HTML] Conservation and trade of the endangered Hypancistrus zebra (Siluriformes, Loricariidae), one of the most trafficked Brazilian fish

LM de Sousa, O Lucanus, JP Arroyo-Mora… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hypancistrus zebra, also known as the zebra pleco, is a small sucker-mouth catfish endemic
to the Xingu River in Brazil where its survival in the wild is threatened by habitat modification …