Title
Amazonian deforestation: Its influence on the Amazon discharge at Óbidos (Brasil)
Other title
Déboisement Amazonien: Son influence sur le débit de l'Amazone à Óbidos (Brésil)
Date Issued
01 January 2008
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Publisher(s)
Institut National de la Research Scientifique
Abstract
This survey completes our earlier work on the evolution of the Amazon discharge at Óbidos from 1903 to 1999. In the Amazon basin above Óbidos (4,680. 103 km2), 341.103 km2 were deforested between 1976 and 2003. The impact of this deforestation on the mean annual discharge was estimated using a water balance approach from 1940 to 2003. The evolution of the runoff coefficient indicates that there was a 5% increase in the mean annual discharge over the 22 years from 1981 to 2003. The number of strong floods was five time higher during this period than it was before. On the other hand, it seems that there is no influence of the deforestation on the low flows.
Start page
59
End page
72
Volume
21
Issue
1
Language
French
OCDE Knowledge area
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Oceanografía, Hidrología, Recursos hídricos
Forestal
Subjects
DOI
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-48749096800
Source
Revue des Sciences de l'Eau
ISSN of the container
09927158
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus