Alex Vladimir Krusche

• Abstract

  The expansion of intensive crop agriculture in tropical forests is a global phenomenon driven by land availability, shifts in diet to more meat consumption and growth of human populations and incomes. These land-use changes have not been accompanied by significant improvements in water governance. This will become increasingly important as changes to climate impact the amount, timing and …

  Xingu: integrating land use planning and water governance in Amazonia: towards improved freshwater security, AP.PFPMCG.TEM

• Abstract

  The premise of this project is that C02 outgassing and respiration rates are supported by the cycling of a large variety of OM fuels - derived from allochthonous, autochthonous, and macrophytic biomass - each with an inherent lability and unique rate of degradation, varying systematically over the hydrograph. Using new methods, these processes can be tracked, quantified and understood wit…

  Net ecosystem exchange of lower Amazon River: from land to the ocean and atmosphere, AP.PFPMCG.SPEC

• Abstract

  This project aims to develop the tools to describe comprehensively the biogeochemistry of fluvial systems in the Amazon and the Pantanal and their role in regional and global carbon (C) cycles, in order to predict their influence and responses to a changing climate. Understand and coping with changes in ecosystems functioning demands a profound knowledge of intra and interannual variation…

  The role of rivers on the regional carbon cycle, AP.PFPMCG.TEM

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• Abstract

  The proposal aims to investigate if the environmental legislation is an effective tool for promoting water security in the Upper Xingu Basin, considering social, environmental, cultural, economic and epistemological aspects of the study area. The Upper Xingu Basin [51 million hectares] is among the main basins of the Amazon River Basin- the most extensive water network of the planet. The …

  Environmental legislation and social representation of human populations at the Upper Xingu, BP.PD
• The carbon cycle in the drainage basin of the river Cuieiras, Amazonas: of the interactions between terrestrial and aquatic environments to the exports through discharge and evasion of CO2, BP.DR
• The role of fluxes of nitrous oxide from the rivers to the atmosphere in the nitrogen cycle in Brazilian Amazonia, BP.MS

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)