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Quo vadis Pantanal? Expected precipitation extremes and drought dynamics from changing sea surface temperature

Climate change poses a critical threat to the Pantanal, the largest wetland in the world. Models indicate an increase in the frequency of extreme precipitation events and extended periods of drought. These changes can amplify consequences for Pantanal’s ecological functioning, which has already expe...

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Autores principales: Thielen, Dirk, Schuchmann, Karl-Ludwig, Ramoni-Perazzi, Paolo, Marquez, Marco, Rojas, Wilmer, Quintero, Jose Isrrael, Marques, Marinêz Isaac
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6946591/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31910441
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227437
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author Thielen, Dirk
Schuchmann, Karl-Ludwig
Ramoni-Perazzi, Paolo
Marquez, Marco
Rojas, Wilmer
Quintero, Jose Isrrael
Marques, Marinêz Isaac
author_facet Thielen, Dirk
Schuchmann, Karl-Ludwig
Ramoni-Perazzi, Paolo
Marquez, Marco
Rojas, Wilmer
Quintero, Jose Isrrael
Marques, Marinêz Isaac
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description Climate change poses a critical threat to the Pantanal, the largest wetland in the world. Models indicate an increase in the frequency of extreme precipitation events and extended periods of drought. These changes can amplify consequences for Pantanal’s ecological functioning, which has already experienced intensive human modification of its hydrological system and environmental health. The present study analyzed the spatial and temporal dynamics of rainfall and resulting extremes in the Brazilian area of the Upper Paraguay River Basin (UPRB) along with a co-evaluation of the global Sea Surface Temperature data (SST). The predicted results indicate that wet extreme precipitation events will become more frequent in the highlands, while severe and prolonged droughts triggered by warming SSTs in the Northern Hemisphere (North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans) will affect the Pantanal. The linear relations between precipitation with SST of very specific oceanic regions and even from specific oceanic indexes obtained in the present study significantly improve the forecasting capacity, mainly from a resulting reduction to two months of the lead-time between SST warming to concomitant precipitation impacts, and by explaining 80% of Pantanal´s precipitation variation from major oceanic indexes (e.g., ENSO, PDO, NAO, ATL3). Current SST trends will result in inter- and intra-annual flooding dynamic alterations, drastically affecting the Pantanal ecosystem functioning, with consequences for wildlife diversity and distribution. Regarding the foreseeable global climate and land use change scenarios, the results from the present study provide solid evidence that can be used at different decision-making levels (from local to global) for identifying the most appropriate management practices and effectively achieving sustainability of the anthropic activity occurring in the Pantanal.
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spelling pubmed-69465912020-01-17 Quo vadis Pantanal? Expected precipitation extremes and drought dynamics from changing sea surface temperature Thielen, Dirk Schuchmann, Karl-Ludwig Ramoni-Perazzi, Paolo Marquez, Marco Rojas, Wilmer Quintero, Jose Isrrael Marques, Marinêz Isaac PLoS One Research Article Climate change poses a critical threat to the Pantanal, the largest wetland in the world. Models indicate an increase in the frequency of extreme precipitation events and extended periods of drought. These changes can amplify consequences for Pantanal’s ecological functioning, which has already experienced intensive human modification of its hydrological system and environmental health. The present study analyzed the spatial and temporal dynamics of rainfall and resulting extremes in the Brazilian area of the Upper Paraguay River Basin (UPRB) along with a co-evaluation of the global Sea Surface Temperature data (SST). The predicted results indicate that wet extreme precipitation events will become more frequent in the highlands, while severe and prolonged droughts triggered by warming SSTs in the Northern Hemisphere (North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans) will affect the Pantanal. The linear relations between precipitation with SST of very specific oceanic regions and even from specific oceanic indexes obtained in the present study significantly improve the forecasting capacity, mainly from a resulting reduction to two months of the lead-time between SST warming to concomitant precipitation impacts, and by explaining 80% of Pantanal´s precipitation variation from major oceanic indexes (e.g., ENSO, PDO, NAO, ATL3). Current SST trends will result in inter- and intra-annual flooding dynamic alterations, drastically affecting the Pantanal ecosystem functioning, with consequences for wildlife diversity and distribution. Regarding the foreseeable global climate and land use change scenarios, the results from the present study provide solid evidence that can be used at different decision-making levels (from local to global) for identifying the most appropriate management practices and effectively achieving sustainability of the anthropic activity occurring in the Pantanal. Public Library of Science 2020-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6946591/ /pubmed/31910441 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227437 Text en © 2020 Thielen et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Marques, Marinêz Isaac
Quo vadis Pantanal? Expected precipitation extremes and drought dynamics from changing sea surface temperature
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title_fullStr Quo vadis Pantanal? Expected precipitation extremes and drought dynamics from changing sea surface temperature
title_full_unstemmed Quo vadis Pantanal? Expected precipitation extremes and drought dynamics from changing sea surface temperature
title_short Quo vadis Pantanal? Expected precipitation extremes and drought dynamics from changing sea surface temperature
title_sort quo vadis pantanal? expected precipitation extremes and drought dynamics from changing sea surface temperature
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6946591/
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