Vulnerability of the biota in riverine and seasonally flooded habitats to damming of Amazonian rivers

A geomorphological assessment of wash-load sediment fluxes and floodplain sediment sinks along the lower Amazon River

(2019) Edward Park et al.   GEOLOGY

Using river color to predict Amazonian floodplain forest avifaunas in the world's largest blackwater river basin

(2019) Thiago Orsi Laranjeiras et al.   BIOTROPICA

The Fishes of the Amazon: Distribution and Biogeographical Patterns, with a Comprehensive List of Species

(2019) Fernando C.P. Dagosta et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Unexpected fish diversity gradients in the Amazon basin

(2019) Thierry Oberdorff et al.   Science Advances

Checklist of the ichthyofauna of the Rio Negro basin in the Brazilian Amazon

(2019) Hélio Beltrão et al.   ZooKeys

Declining fisheries and increasing prices: The economic cost of tropical rivers impoundment

(2019) Maria Alice Leite Lima et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Amazon protected areas and its ability to protect stream-dwelling fish fauna

(2018) Renata Guimarães Frederico et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Age and growth of the Amazonian migratory catfish Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii in the Madeira River basin before the construction of dams

(2018) Marília Hauser et al.   Neotropical Ichthyology

Fragmentation of Andes-to-Amazon connectivity by hydropower dams

(2018) Elizabeth P. Anderson et al.   Science Advances

The decline of fisheries on the Madeira River, Brazil: The high cost of the hydroelectric dams in the Amazon Basin

(2018) Rangel E. Santos et al.   FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AND ECOLOGY

Protected areas: A focus on Brazilian freshwater biodiversity

(2018) Valter M. Azevedo-Santos et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Response of black-water floodplain (igapó) forests to flood pulse regulation in a dammed Amazonian river

(2018) Guilherme de Sousa Lobo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Tree mortality of a flood-adapted species in response of hydrographic changes caused by an Amazonian river dam

(2017) Cyro Assahira et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A reassessment of the suspended sediment load in the Madeira River basin from the Andes of Peru and Bolivia to the Amazon River in Brazil, based on 10 years of data from the HYBAM monitoring programme

(2017) Philippe Vauchel et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Large emissions from floodplain trees close the Amazon methane budget

(2017) Sunitha R. Pangala et al.   NATURE

Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin

(2017) Edgardo M. Latrubesse et al.   NATURE

Connectivity in rivers

(2017) Ellen Wohl   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

The hydro-geomorphologic complexity of the lower Amazon River floodplain and hydrological connectivity assessed by remote sensing and field control

(2017) Edward Park et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The changing hydrology of a dammed Amazon

(2017) Kelsie Timpe et al.   Science Advances

The Brazilian freshwater wetscape: Changes in tree community diversity and composition on climatic and geographic gradients

(2017) Florian Wittmann et al.   PLoS One

The potential impact of new Andean dams on Amazon fluvial ecosystems

(2017) Bruce R. Forsberg et al.   PLoS One

Climate change sensitivity of threatened, and largely unprotected, Amazonian fishes

(2016) Renata G. Frederico et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Land-use change affects water recycling in Brazil's last agricultural frontier

(2016) Stephanie A. Spera et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The seasonal carbon and water balances of the Cerrado environment of Brazil: Past, present, and future influences of land cover and land use

(2016) Arielle Elias Arantes et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Brazilian politics threaten environmental policies

(2016) P. M. Fearnside   SCIENCE

Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong

(2016) K. O. Winemiller et al.   SCIENCE

Effects of flooding on trees in the semi-deciduous transition forests of the Araguaia floodplain, Brazil

(2015) Dariusz Kurzatkowski et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Overfishing disrupts an ancient mutualism between frugivorous fishes and plants in Neotropical wetlands

(2015) Sandra Bibiana Correa et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Effects of the Flooding Gradient on Tree Community Diversity inVárzeaForests of the Purus River, Central Amazon, Brazil

(2015) Bruno G. Luize et al.   BIOTROPICA

Large rivers, megafans and other Quaternary avulsive fluvial systems: A potential “who's who” in the geological record

(2015) Edgardo M. Latrubesse   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Emissions from tropical hydropower and the IPCC

(2015) Philip M. Fearnside   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Effects of the hydroedaphic gradient on tree species composition and aboveground wood biomass of oligotrophic forest ecosystems in the central Amazon basin

(2015) Natália Targhetta et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Large-scale degradation of Amazonian freshwater ecosystems

(2015) Leandro Castello et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Temporal and spatial distribution of youngBrachyplatystomaspp. (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) along the rapids stretch of the Madeira River (Brazil) before the construction of two hydroelectric dams

(2015) A. Cella-Ribeiro et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Montane bias in lowland Amazonian peatlands: Plant assembly on heterogeneous landscapes and potential significance to palynological inference

(2015) J.E. Householder et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Widespread Forest Vertebrate Extinctions Induced by a Mega Hydroelectric Dam in Lowland Amazonia

(2015) Maíra Benchimol et al.   PLoS One

A classification of the major habitats of Amazonian black-water river floodplains and a comparison with their white-water counterparts

(2015) Wolfgang J. Junk et al.   WETLANDS ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Distribution and abundance of tree species in swamp forests of Amazonian Ecuador

(2014) Nigel C. A. Pitman et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Sediment supply as a driver of river meandering and floodplain evolution in the Amazon Basin

(2014) José Antonio Constantine et al.   Nature Geoscience

Effects of hydroperiod and substrate properties on tree alpha diversity and composition in Amazonian floodplain forests

(2014) Rafael L. Assis et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Impacts of hydroelectric dams on alluvial riparian plant communities in eastern Brazilian Amazonian

(2013) LEANDRO VALLE FERREIRA et al.   ANAIS DA ACADEMIA BRASILEIRA DE CIENCIAS

Impacts of Brazil's Madeira River Dams: Unlearned lessons for hydroelectric development in Amazonia

(2013) Philip M. Fearnside   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Vegetation and its relationship with geomorphologic units in the Parana River floodplain, Argentina

(2013) Z.Y. Marchetti et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

The igapó of the Negro River in central Amazonia: Linking late-successional inundation forest with fluvial geomorphology

(2013) Juan Carlos Montero et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Amazon River carbon dioxide outgassing fuelled by wetlands

(2013) Gwenaël Abril et al.   NATURE

Land-use-driven stream warming in southeastern Amazonia

(2013) M. N. Macedo et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

(2013) H. ter Steege et al.   SCIENCE

The vulnerability of Amazon freshwater ecosystems

(2013) Leandro Castello et al.   Conservation Letters

Habitat specifity, endemism and the neotropical distribution of Amazonian white-water floodplain trees

(2012) Florian Wittmann et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Water use by terrestrial ecosystems: temporal variability in rainforest and agricultural contributions to evapotranspiration in Mato Grosso, Brazil

(2012) Michael J Lathuillière et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Floristic variation across 600 km of inundation forests (Igapó) along the Negro River, Central Amazonia

(2012) Juan Carlos Montero et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Connectivity processes and riparian vegetation of the upper Paraná River, Brazil

(2012) José C. Stevaux et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

A classification of major natural habitats of Amazonian white-water river floodplains (várzeas)

(2012) Wolfgang J. Junk et al.   WETLANDS ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Impacts of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction on pioneer vegetation formations along the Xingu River, Pará State, Brazil

(2012) Denise de Andrade Cunha et al.   Brazilian Journal of Botany

Conversion to soy on the Amazonian agricultural frontier increases streamflow without affecting stormflow dynamics

(2011) SHELBY J. HAYHOE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Drought responses of flood-tolerant trees in Amazonian floodplains

(2009) Pia Parolin et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Suspended sediment yields in the Amazon basin: an assessment using the Brazilian national data set

(2009) Naziano Filizola et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Channel-floodplain geomorphology and connectivity of the Lower Paraguay hydrosystem

(2009) Edmundo C. Drago et al.   ECOHYDROLOGY & HYDROBIOLOGY

Effects of Future Infrastructure Development on Threat Status and Occurrence of Amazonian Birds

(2008) MARIANA M. VALE et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Conservation Value of Remnant Riparian Forest Corridors of Varying Quality for Amazonian Birds and Mammals

(2008) ALEXANDER C. LEES et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

TREE RECRUITMENT IN AN EMPTY FOREST

(2008) John Terborgh et al.   ECOLOGY

Patterns of anabranching channels: The ultimate end-member adjustment of mega rivers

(2008) Edgardo M. Latrubesse   GEOMORPHOLOGY

A new measure of longitudinal connectivity for stream networks

(2008) David Cote et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY