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

• Grant number: 15/10502-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: October 01, 2015
• End date: February 05, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Forestry Resources and Forestry Engineering - Forest Management
• Principal Investigator: Silvio Frosini de Barros Ferraz
• Grantee: Carolina Bozetti Rodrigues
• Supervisor: Patrick Lane
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Melbourne, Australia
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/13243-9 - The influence of planted forest management in water quantity and quality at the catchment scale, BP.DR

Abstract

Worldwide eucalyptus planted forests are seen as major consumers of water and therefore antagonistic to the conservation of water resources. In Brazil, the forest legislation provides that farms should reserve a portion of its area for environmental protection. These protected areas should be covered by native vegetation. So despite constitute a monoculture planted forests are intermixed by fragments of native vegetation. For this reason it is necessary to understand whether different proportions of native forest and planted forests can contribute to conserving water resources, and how these proportions can minimize the effects of activities related to forest management, for example, timber harvesting and road density. To ensure a better analysis and understanding of the data collected in Brazil, this project describes the importance and justifies the choice of Forests and Water Research Group in the School of Forest and Ecosystem Sciences of the University of Melbourne to perform the BEPE internship, under supervision of Associate Professor Patrick Lane. Academic and personal gains are expected through the internship. (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)