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http://hdl.handle.net/1843/52295| Type: | Artigo de Periódico |
| Title: | Effects of climate and land-cover changes on soil erosion in Brazilian Pantanal |
| Authors: | Carina B. Colman Paulo Tarso S. Oliveira André Almagro Britaldo Silveira Soares Filho Dulce B. B. Rodrigues |
| Abstract: | The Pantanal biome integrates the lowlands of the Upper Paraguay Basin (UPB), which is hydrologically connected to the biomes of the Cerrado and Amazon (the highlands of the UPB). The effects of recent land-cover and land-use (LCLU) changes in the highlands, combined with climate change, are still poorly understood in this region. Here, we investigate the effects of soil erosion in the Brazilian Pantanal under climate and LCLU changes by combining different scenarios of projected rainfall erosivity and land-cover management. We compute the average annual soil erosion for the baseline (2012) and projected scenarios for 2020, 2035, and 2050. For the worst scenario, we noted an increase in soil loss of up to 100% from 2012 to 2050, associated with cropland expansion in some parts of the highlands. Furthermore, for the same period, our results indicated an increase of 20 to 40% in soil loss in parts of the Pantanal biome, which was associated with farmland increase (mainly for livestock) in the lowlands. Therefore, to ensure water, food, energy, and ecosystem service security over the next decades in the whole UPB, robust and comprehensive planning measures need to be developed, especially for the most impacted areas found in our study. |
| Subject: | Ciência do solo Águas residuais no solo Solos - Umidade Vegetação e clima - Pantanal Mato-grossense (MS e MT) Mudanças climáticas |
| language: | eng |
| metadata.dc.publisher.country: | Brasil |
| Publisher: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| Publisher Initials: | UFMG |
| metadata.dc.publisher.department: | IGC - DEPARTAMENTO DE CARTOGRAFIA |
| Rights: | Acesso Aberto |
| metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su11247053 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1843/52295 |
| Issue Date: | 10-Dec-2019 |
| metadata.dc.url.externa: | https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/24/7053 |
| metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Sustainability |
| Appears in Collections: | Artigo de Periódico |
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