Rômullo Oliveira Louzada, Ivan Bergier, Michael M McGlue, Fabio de Oliveira Roque, Giliane Rasbold, Leandro Domingos-Luz, Edward Lo, Mario Luis Assine
River avulsions drive important changes in the Pantanal wetlands, owing to their role in the hydro-sedimentology of the region. Although relevant to numerous ecosystem services, few studies have analyzed the influence of river avulsions on soil fertility in the Pantanal. Here, we use the largest ongoing avulsion in the Taquari River (Caronal region) to evaluate the effects on soil fertility, considering two factors: avulsion stage (1) and aquatic-terrestrial succession (2). Since both factors are influenced by macrophyte abundance, an incident map was created through tasseled cap indices from Sentinel 2 images to guide sampling efforts in flooded soils...
April 1, 2024: Science of the Total Environment