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Ordinary Cokriging applied to generate intensity-duration-frequency equations for Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil
For natural resource management and conservation, understanding and quantifying the spatiotemporal behavior of rainfall is of paramount importance....
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Assessing life zone changes under climate change scenarios in Brazil
Climate classification systems are tools that facilitate the analysis, grouping, delimitation, and dissemination of the climatic characteristics of a...
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Identification of coastal natural disasters using official databases to provide support for the coastal management: the case of Santa Catarina, Brazil
The increase in natural disaster frequency, intensified by climate change, poses one of the greatest threats to coastal systems and low-lying areas...
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Geomorphological Heritage and Geotourism in a Granite Terrain of the Semi-Arid Northeast of Brazil: The Case of the Uruburetama Massif
The present research aims to inventory and assess the geomorphological heritage of the Uruburetama Massif, located in the Semi-arid Northeast of...
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Species richness and similarity of the flora on four lajedos in Boa Nova, Bahia, Brazil
The municipality of Boa Nova, in northeastern Brazil, is in an ecotone zone between the Caatinga and Atlantic Forest phytogeographic domains. The...
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Intraseasonal and interannual mechanisms of summer rainfall over Northeast Brazil using a hidden Markov model
A hidden Markov model (HMM) with four hidden states is used to describe the daily precipitation occurrence and wet day intensities of a gridded...
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Environmental controls on landslide size distribution in the Paraitinga River basin, SE Brazil
The analytical treatment of some of the primary environmental controls on landslides has demonstrated that the landslide size distribution in the...
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Climate change scenarios and the dragon fruit climatic zoning in Brazil
The present paper aims to compute climatological zones apt for the cultivation of pitaya based on trends in the occurrence of climate change events...
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Projections of severe droughts in future climate in Southeast Brazil: a case study in Southern Minas Gerais State, Brazil
South of Minas Gerais state, in Southeast Brazil, is known for the coffee crop production (more than 30% of country’s production) and...
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Climatology and significant trends in air temperature in Alagoas, Northeast Brazil
The increase in air temperature can generate several environmental and socioeconomic impacts, so the main objective of this study was to...
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Influence of early/mid-Holocene climate change and sea level rise on a coast with barrier islands, Rio de Janeiro State, SE Brazil
This work aims to identify the influence of climate change on sedimentary processes associated with the usual regression process during the rise of...
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Comparison between rupture parameters of intermediate and deep earthquakes at the Peru–Brazil–Bolivia border and northern Chile
We determined the main parameters of the source rupture process of intermediate- and deep-depth earthquakes occurring in the Peru–Brazil–Bolivia...
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Aeolian Geodiversity of the Itapeva Dunefield (Brazil) and Geoconservation in the Management of Protected Areas
The Itapeva dunefield is an active aeolian transgressive dunefield system and an important conservation area (PEVA State Park) in Torres-RS, Brazil....
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Quantification of Geodiversity Services in the São Francisco River Basin, Brazil (Minas Gerais portion), and Their Importance for the Management of Water Resources
The São Francisco River basin (SFRB) is the largest hydrographic basin located exclusively in Brazil. It covers an area of 636,920 km 2 , encompassing...
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Ocean–atmosphere interaction identified in tree-ring time series from southern Brazil using cross-wavelet analysis
Tropical dendrochronology has gained significant attention in recent years, particularly with the dendrochronological study of new species that...
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Heavy rains and hydrogeological disasters on February 18th–19th, 2023, in the city of São Sebastião, São Paulo, Brazil: from meteorological causes to early warnings
This study provides a thorough analysis of the landslides that occurred in the city of São Sebastião, on the northern coast of São Paulo state,...
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Assessing urban forest decline and predicting future expansion: a spatial analysis and modeling approach in João Pessoa City, Brazil
AbstractEvaluating the decline of urban forests and forecasting urban expansion are pivotal for fostering environmental sustainability and shaping...
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Vertebrate fossil diagenesis of the Leon Ravine accumulation (Lajedo de Soledade, Apodi, Rio Grande do Norte): insights on the fossilization from Quaternary deposits in Brazil
Caves and ravines are important features in karst environments, although studying fossil diagenesis in ravines remains less explored than in caves....
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Syn- and Post-collisional Granitoids Geosites of the Rio Doce Magmatic Arc, Espírito Santo State, Southeastern Brazil
Geosites in syn- and post-collisional granitoid rocks of the Rio Doce Magmatic Arc are important markers of the tectonic environments associated with...
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Laser scanner technology in the assessment of mining tailings surface changes and rehabilitation interventions after the Fundão dam rupture, Brazil
In this work, we evaluated the changes that occurred by the deposition of the tailings, and the consequences after the implementation of...
