作者: Mario Duarte Pinto Godoy , Luiz Drude de Lacerda
DOI: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-13-00059.1
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摘要: ABSTRACT Godoy, M.D.P. and de Lacerda, L.D., 2014. River-island morphological response to basin land-use change within the Jaguaribe River estuary, NE Brazil. The drains largest watershed of Ceara state in northeastern Brazil, which, with a catchment approximately 75,000 km2, comprises more than 50% total area. Land use global climate changes are altering river morphology, making navigation estuary difficult. Mapping fluvial islands using images from Landsat 5 between 1988 2010 showed that existing suffered great during this period. Overall, there was an increase 24.15 ha area islands, which presently being colonized by mangrove vegetation. period growth occurred 1992 2003, when 13 at rate 2.7 y−1. An estimate sediment loading various land uses main activity contributing sedim...