Publications by authors named "Angelica Faria de Resende"
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- Flooding in the Amazon affects which tree species can grow together because they have different abilities to survive in wet conditions.!
- Researchers studied tree communities along the Falsino River to see how flooding changes the types of trees found in different areas.!
- They found that areas with frequent flooding have fewer tree types and are less diverse, while drier areas support more varied and unique tree species.!
Large dams built for hydroelectric power generation alter the hydrology of rivers, attenuating the flood pulse downstream of the dam and impacting riparian and floodplain ecosystems. The present work mapped black-water floodplain forests (igapó) downstream of the Balbina Reservoir, which was created between 1983 and 1987 by damming the Uatumã River in the Central Amazon basin. We apply remote sensing methods to detect tree mortality resulting from hydrological changes, based on analysis of 56 ALOS/PALSAR synthetic aperture radar images acquired at different flood levels between 2006 and 2011.
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