Dynamics of the Pantanal Wetland in South America

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bergier, Ivan (Editor), Assine, Mario Luis (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, 37
• Subjects: Environment.; Water quality.; Water pollution.; Climate change.; Analytical chemistry.; Hydrogeology.; Geotechnical engineering.; Environmental chemistry.; Environmental Chemistry.; Water Quality/Water Pollution.; Analytical Chemistry.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.

This book provides readers with in-depth insights into the changes in the Pantanal wetland from its formation to the actual and likely future states. It reveals that today’s Pantanal is an evolutionary consequence of geological, ecological and, more recently, man-made events taking place at distinct...

Table of Contents:

• Underneath the Pantanal Wetland: a Deep-time History of Gondwana Assembly, Climate Change, and the Dawn of Metazoan Life
•  Geology and Geomorphology of the Pantanal Basin
• Paleolimnology in the Pantanal:  Using Lake Sediment Archives to Track Late Quaternary Environmental Change in the World’s Largest Neotropical Wetland
• Changing Rivers and the Hydrology of the Pantanal Wetland
• Terrestrial and Aquatic Vegetation Diversity of the Pantanal Wetland
• Metabolic Scaling Applied to Native Woody Savanna Species in the Pantanal of Nhecolândia
• Alkaline Lakes Dynamics in the Nhecolândia Landscape
• Methane and Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the Paraguay River floodplain (Pantanal) during Episodic Anoxia Events
• Pesticides in the Pantanal
• Historical Land-use Changes in São Gabriel do Oeste at the Upper Taquari River Basin
• Natural and Environmental Vulnerability along the Touristic “Estradas Parque Pantanal” by GIS Algebraic Mapping
• Climate Change Scenarios in the Pantanal.