Christopher Neill | The Ecosystems Center - MBL - Estados Unidos

• Grant number: 06/52242-4
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: January 17, 2007
• End date: May 16, 2007
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems Ecology
• Agreement: Fulbright Commission
• Principal Investigator: Reynaldo Luiz Victória
• Grantee: Reynaldo Luiz Victória
• Visiting researcher: Christopher Neill
• Visiting researcher institution: Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), United States
• Host Institution: Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 03/13172-2 - The role of Amazonian fluvial systems in regional and global carbon cycles: CO2 evasion and land-water interactions, AP.TEM

Abstract

Prof. Neill is proposing to develop a new approach to quantifying how deforestation influences the movement and processing of water and dissolved materials from land to small streams in the lowland Amazon region of Rondônia, in western Brazil. The foundation for this work will be field studies in two intensively-instrumented paired small forest and pastures watersheds in Rondônia where I have been collaborating on studies of hydrology and water chemistry using data already collected as part of the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment In Amazonia and a Fapesp thematic project (03/13172-2). (AU)