Ponds, puddles, floodplains and dams in the Upper Xingu Basin: could we be witnessing the ‘lentification’ of deforested Amazonia?

Hydrological change is a conspicuous signal of land use intensification in human-dominated landscapes. We hypothesized that land conversion and land use change increase the availability of lentic habitats and associated biodiversity in Southern Amazonian landscapes through at least four drivers. Riv...

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Main Authors: Luis Schiesari, Paulo R. Ilha, Daniel Din Betin Negri, Paulo Inácio Prado, Britta Grillitsch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-04-01
Series:Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2530064420300225