ArticleBioscience2022
Biotic Indicators for Ecological State Change in Amazonian Floodplains.
Article in Bioscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Threshold responses of floating meadow fish communities to floodplain forest cover in the lower Amazon River.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025Article
- From Spurious Interference to Biological Signal: Repurposing Weather Radars to Monitor and Study the Amazonian Avifauna.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Analysis of Temporal and Spatial Changes in Ecological Environment Quality on Changxing Island Using an Optimized Remote Sensing Ecological Index.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Floodplain forests drive fruit-eating fish diversity at the Amazon Basin-scale.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Ethnoecology and use of fishes by the Cubeo people from the Cuduyarí River, Colombian Amazonia.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2024Article
- The Andes-Amazon-Atlantic pathway: A foundational hydroclimate system for social-ecological system sustainability.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
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Abstract
Riverine floodplains are biologically diverse and productive ecosystems. Although tropical floodplains remain relatively conserved and ecologically functional compared to those at higher latitudes, they face accelerated hydropower development, climate change, and deforestation. Alterations to the flood pulse could act synergistically with other drivers of change to promote profound ecological state change at a large spatial scale. State change occurs when an ecosystem reaches a critical threshold or tipping point, which leads to an alternative qualitative state for the ecosystem. Visualizing an alternative state for Amazonian floodplains is not straightforward. Yet, it is critical to recognize that changes to the flood pulse could push tropical floodplain ecosystems over a tipping point with cascading adverse effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services. We characterize the Amazonian flood pulse regime, summarize evidence of flood pulse change, assess potential ecological repercussions, and provide a monitoring framework for tracking flood pulse change and detecting biotic responses.
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