Watersheds are complex environmental systems, where geomorphologic, hydrologic, climatic and ecological processes take place, and which are severely impacted by urbanisation. In this paper, six Santiago Andean piedmont ...

The San Juan River is a part of the Rio Grande/Bravo watershed in the Mexican territory. For many years the San Juan River watershed has been altered by deforestation, which is related to agricultural and urban development. ...

The province of Buenos Aires (Argentina) is one of the main productive areas of the country. In the These days of the province landscape is shaped by a mosaic of rural and urban sectors; here is placed the Cinturón Hortícola ...

Purpose: This study presents a comparative analysis of water quality data in an urban micro watershed to study the magnitude of impacts on the water quality parameters over the last decade. The purpose of this paper is to ...

The research has the objective to study the upper Barro Preto river and Várzea stream watersheds, located at the Coronel Vivida City, southwest of the state of Paraná, to analyze the factors that may be contribuing to ...

The human action induces changes in basins natural runoff. Flooding may become more intense, there may be more immediate and prolonged droughts, an accelerated erosion process and water quality tends to deteriorate. ...

La urbanización, como es conocido, modifica significativamente las características y el equilibrio funcional de los Complejos Territoriales Naturales. Especial influencia e impacto ocasiona en las cuencas hidrológicas, que ...

Changes in landscape structure are generally associated to physical, biological and social factors. However, their integrated analysis is rarely done. The objective of this study was to determine the distribution patterns ...