Description: We defined water type (white, black or clear) in 6th – 11th order rivers based on regional knowledge and qualitative optical analysis of high resolution imagery. VariablesDescriptionOBJECTIDObject identifierNODESConfluences of larger (6th – 11th order rivers) whitewater and blackwater or clearwater riversNameRiver nametypeRiver water color (white, black and clearShape_LengthLength in degrees - NOT USERiver_OrderRiver order with Strahler (1957) classification system
Copyright Text: Authors:
Eduardo Venticinque1, Bruce Forsberg2, Ronaldo B. Barthem3, Paulo Petry4, Laura Hess5, Armando Mercado6, Carlos Cañas6, Mariana Montoya6, Carlos Durigan6, Michael Goulding6.
Affiliations:
1-Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte endereço (UFRN), Depto Ecologia, 59072-970 - Natal, RN – Brazil
2-Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) Cx Postal 478, Manaus, AM, Brazil, 69011-970
3-Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi (Belém, Pará, Brazil), Caixa Postal 399, Belém, PA, Brazil, 66040-170
4-The Nature Conservancy (TNC), 4245 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington VA22203, USA & Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138, USA
5-Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-3060 USA
6-Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), 2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, New York 10460 USA
Contact: Eduardo Venticinque - eduardo.venticinque@gmail.com; BruceForsberg - brforsberg@gmail.com; Armando Mercado - amercado@wcs.org
The synthetic work for this paper was supported by the Science for Nature and People (SNAP) project sponsored by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Nature Conservancy (TNC).