Wood stock in neotropical streams: Quantifying and comparing instream wood among biomes and regions.

ABSTRACT: Instream wood plays important chemical, physical and ecological functions in aquatic systems, benefiting biota directly and indirectly. However, human activities along river corridors have disrupted wood recruitment and retention, usually leading to reductions in the amount of instream wood. In the tropics, where wood is believed to be more transient, the expansion of agriculture and infrastructure might be reducing instream wood stock even more than in the better studied temperate streams. However, research is needed to augment the small amount of information about wood in different biomes and ecosystems of neotropical streams. Here we present the first extensive assessment of instream wood loads and size distributions in streams of the wet-tropical Amazon and semi-humid-tropical Cerrado

SUBMITTER: Saraiva SO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9534444 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature