Title
A New GIS-Based River Basin Framework for Aquatic Ecosystem Conservation in the Amazon
Author(s)
Eduardo Venticinque, Bruce Forsberg, Ronaldo Barthem, Paulo Petry, Laura Hess, Armando Mercado, Carlos Cañas, Mariana Montoya, Carlos Durigan, and Michael Goulding
Published
2022
Abstract
The Amazon Waters Initiative is a call to action to conceptualize the vast Amazon aquatic ecosystem as a whole, bringing together people to work across a myriad of borders: the borders of the river basins, the riverbanks, the protected areas, the nations of the Amazon, and the institutions that work within it. Its actions focus on maintaining the integrity of the interlinked and dynamic Amazon freshwater system in order to sustain human wellbeing, wildlife, and the environments on which they depend. This document summarizes the development and use of a multiple scale GIS-based “roadmap” for spatial analysis in the Amazon basin. This framework was first published1 in a peer-reviewed journal, Earth System Science Data by Eduardo Venticinque of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte; Bruce Forsberg of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia; Ronaldo B. Barthem of the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi; Paulo Petry of The Nature Conservancy; Laura Hess of the Earth Research Institute; Armando Mercado, Carlos Cañas, Mariana Montoya, Carlos Durigan, and Michael Goulding of Wildlife Conservation Society, in December of 2016. The development of this GIS Framework was coordinated by Michael Goulding. This scalable basin framework2 is a contribution of the Amazon Waters Initiative and SNAPP, and a product of a 15+ year collaboration between hydrologists, limnologists, and freshwater ecologists.
Full Citation
Venticinque, E., B. Forsberg, R. Barthem, P. Petry, L. Hess, A. Mercado, C. Canas, M. Montoya, C. Durigan, and M. Goulding (2022). A New GIS-Based River Basin Framework for Aquatic Ecosystem Conservation in the Amazon. Lima, Peru: Amazon Waters Initiative
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