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Fire Dynamics In Amazonia, Manoel Cardoso
Fire Dynamics In Amazonia, Manoel Cardoso
Doctoral Dissertations
Fires are major disturbances for ecosystems in Amazonia. Because of their short time scale and strong links to biogeochemical cycles, fires significantly affect fluxes and stocks of carbon and nutrients, change air composition, and modify ecosystems structure and functioning. Fires are strongly related to land-use, land-cover and climate conditions. Because the increasing development of the region, these factors have been changing and leading to different patterns of fire activity. Thus it is very important to understand the dynamics of fires in the region and to develop models that can project their potential changes. To contribute in all these subjects, we …
The Influence Of Urbanization On Runoff Generation And Stream Chemistry In Massachusetts Watersheds, Brian A. Pellerin
The Influence Of Urbanization On Runoff Generation And Stream Chemistry In Massachusetts Watersheds, Brian A. Pellerin
Doctoral Dissertations
The conversion of forested and agricultural land to suburban and urban landscapes is a dominant land use change dynamic in the United States and has implications for watershed hydrology and water quality. Here I evaluate the effect of integrated landscape features (e.g., percent residential or developed) and watershed-scale attributes influenced by urbanization on stream nutrient concentrations in headwater catchments in Massachusetts. In addition, I evaluate the importance of surface versus subsurface flow paths during rainfall events in stormflow generation in a small urban catchment. The percentage of residential land explains 52% of the variability in mean annual nitrate (NO3) concentrations …