The shadow of the Balbina dam: A synthesis of over 35 years of downstream impacts on floodplain forests in Central Amazonia

Schöngart, Jochen; Wittmann, Florian; Faria de Resende, Angélica; Assahira, Cyro; de Sousa Lobo, Guilherme; Rocha Duarte Neves, Juliana; da Rocha, Maíra; Biem Mori, Gisele; Costa Quaresma, Adriano; Oreste Demarchi, Layon; Weiss Albuquerque, Bianca; Oliveira Feitosa, Yuri; da Silva Costa, Gilvan; Vieira Feitoza, Gildo; Machado Durgante, Flávia; Lopes, Aline; E. Trumbore, Susan; Sanna Freire Silva, Thiago; ter Steege, Hans; Luis Val, Adalberto; J. Junk, Wolfgang; Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Maria

doi:10.1002/aqc.3526

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The shadow of the Balbina dam: A synthesis of over 35 years of downstream impacts on floodplain forests in Central Amazonia

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Authors:

Jochen Schöngart

Florian Wittmann

Angélica Faria de Resende

Abstract

Abstract The Balbina hydropower dam in the Central Amazon basin, established in the Uatumã River in the 1980s, is emblematic for its socio‐environmental disaster. Its environmental impacts go far beyond the reservoir and dam, however, affecting the floodplain forests (igapó) in the downstream area (...

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