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Title
An Explicit GIS-Based River Basin Framework for Aquatic Ecosystem Conservation in the Amazon
Author(s)
Venticinque, E.;Forsberg, B.;Barthen, B. R.;Petry, P.;Hess, L.;Mercado, A.;Canãs, C.;Montoya, M.;Durigan, C.;Goulding, M.
Published
2016
Publisher
Earth System Science Data
Published Version DOI
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2016-17
Abstract
Despite large-scale infrastructure development, deforestation, mining and petroleum exploration in the Amazon Basin, relatively little attention has been given to the management scale required for the protection of wetlands, fisheries and other aspects of aquatic ecosystems. This is due, in part, to the enormous size, multinational composition and interconnected nature of the Amazon River system, but also to the absence of an adequate spatial model for integrating data across the entire Amazon Basin. In this data article we present a spatially uniform multi-scale GIS framework that was developed especially for the analysis, management and monitoring of various aspects of aquatic systems in the Amazon Basin. The Amazon GIS-Based River Basin Framework is accessible as an ESRI geodatabase at https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/#view/doi:10.5063/F1BG2KX8.
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