Search Results - "Ovando, Alex"
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Mapping data gaps to estimate biomass across Brazilian Amazon forests
Published in Forest ecosystems (22-04-2020)“…Background Tropical forests play a fundamental role in the provision of diverse ecosystem services, such as biodiversity, climate and air quality regulation,…”
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How much inundation occurs in the Amazon River basin?
Published in Remote sensing of environment (01-09-2022)“…The Amazon River basin harbors some of the world's largest wetland complexes, which are of major importance for biodiversity, the water cycle and climate, and…”
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Deforestation scenarios for the Bolivian lowlands
Published in Environmental research (01-01-2016)“…Tropical forests in South America play a key role in the provision of ecosystem services such as carbon sinks, biodiversity conservation, and global climate…”
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Present-day African analogue of a pre-European Amazonian floodplain fishery shows convergence in cultural niche construction
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (27-12-2016)“…Erickson [Erickson CL (2000) Nature 408 (6809):190–193] interpreted features in seasonal floodplains in Bolivia’s Beni savannas as vestiges of pre-European…”
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The unique functioning of a pre-Columbian Amazonian floodplain fishery
Published in Scientific reports (16-04-2018)“…Archaeology provides few examples of large-scale fisheries at the frontier between catching and farming of fish. We analysed the spatial organization of…”
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Inundation mapping using hydraulic modeling with high-resolution remote sensed data: a case study in the Acre River Basin, Brazil
Published in Modeling earth systems and environment (01-06-2024)“…Considering the impacts of climate change in recent decades that have exacerbated the frequency and intensity of floods worldwide and especially in the Amazon…”
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Coupling the terrestrial hydrology model with biogeochemistry to the integrated LAND surface model: Amazon Basin applications
Published in Hydrological sciences journal (26-10-2018)“…We coupled the hydrologic routing and flood dynamics model Terrestrial Hydrology Model with Biogeochemistry (THMB) to the Integrated LAND Surface Model…”
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