Land use, erosion and surface runoff in south-eastern Brasil

Description

Based on the growing food and energy demand and environmental changes resulting from the conversion of natural environments into arable areas, research that seeks to understand how these anthropogenic changes (change in land use and cover and climate) affect hydrological processes are fundamental. Understanding the processes of infiltration and runoff is an important step towards the development of strategies to guarantee the sustainability of ecosystems, restoration and preservation of native vegetation. Thus, this work has as main objective the preliminary study about how anthropic interference on land use and climate changes interfere with infiltration and surface runoff. The study will be developed in experimental plots under different land uses found in the Southeast region of Brazil: sugarcane, Cerrado stricto sensu, soybean and exposed soil.

Period	2022 May 1 → 2024 Jun 28
Examinee/Supervised person	Dimaghi Schwamback
Degree of Recognition	International