WOOD PREDICTORS IN NEOTROPICAL STREAMS: ASSESSING THE EFFECTS OF REGIONAL AND LOCAL CONTROLS IN AMAZON AND CERRADO CATCHMENTS.

ABSTRACT: Large wood plays a critical role providing complex habitat structure in rivers and streams. The instream wood regime consists of wood recruitment, transport, retention, and decay in river corridors. In tropical streams, transport and decay are thought to be the dominant influences on the amount instream wood stored, and these are driven by upstream forest cover, as well as catchment hydroclimatic and geomorphic characteristics. Lack of studies of the tropical wood regime leave many uncertainties. Notably, the wood regimes in the neotropical Amazon and Cerrado biomes are not known, and rapidly changing land-use threatens efforts to understand their natural wood regime. We investigated predictors of instream wood in catchments of the Amazon and Cerrado subject to a wide range of agricultural

SUBMITTER: Saraiva SO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11492989 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature