The influence of planted forest management in water quantity and quality at the catchment scale

• Grant number: 13/13243-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: September 01, 2013
• End date: November 05, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Forestry Resources and Forestry Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Silvio Frosini de Barros Ferraz
• Grantee: Carolina Bozetti Rodrigues
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/10502-9 - The influence of planted forest management in water quantity and quality at the catchment scale, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Worldwide, Eucalyptus forest plantations are considered to present a high water consumption and, hence, antagonistic to the conservation of water resources. In Brazil, the forest legislation provides that in areas of forest or agricultural production there are areas that must be protected with their native vegetation cover. Thus, despite being a monoculture, forest plantations are most always interspersed with fragments of native vegetation. For this reason, it is necessary to understand whether different proportions of native forest and planted forest can improve the objective of water conservation, and how these proportions can minimize the hydrologic effects of forest plantation management activities, for example, forest harvesting and density of forest roads. Therefore, this study aims at evaluating the influence of forest plantation management on the dynamics of stream water quantity and quality in catchments with different proportions of native forest and plantation forest and with different densities of roads. It is expected that the results of this study may improve the knowledge of the relationship between forest plantations and water in Brazil and may devise alternative forest management strategies aimed at improving water conservation. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

RODRIGUES, CAROLINA BOZETTI; TANIWAKI, RICARDO HIDEO; LANE, PATRICK; LIMA, WALTER DE PAULA; DE BARROS FERRAZ, SILVIO FROSINI. Eucalyptus Short-Rotation Management Effects on Nutrient and Sediments in Subtropical Streams. FORESTS, v. 10, n. 6, JUN 2019. (15/10502-9, 13/13243-9)

DE BARROS FERRAZ, SILVIO FROSINI; RODRIGUES, CAROLINA BOZETTI; GARCIA, LARA GABRIELLE; ALVARES, CLAYTON ALCARDE; LIMA, WALTER DE PAULA. Effects of Eucalyptus plantations on streamflow in Brazil: Moving beyond the water use debate. FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, v. 453, DEC 1 2019. (13/22679-5, 13/13243-9)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

RODRIGUES, Carolina Bozetti. Eucalyptus forest plantation management: effects on surface water resources at catchment scale. 2017. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) Piracicaba.