Edivando Vitor Do Couto- Doctor of Geography
- Research Assistant at Technical University of Munich
Edivando Vitor Do Couto
- Doctor of Geography
- Research Assistant at Technical University of Munich
Geographer | GIS | Data Analysis & Visualization | Planning | Cartography | Geoinformation | Remote Sensing | Landscape
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Introduction
I am currently an adjunct professor from the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR), in the Academic Department of Biodiversity and Nature Conservation (ADBNC). I have experience in Geosciences and Landscape Ecology.
Current institution
Technical University of Munich
Current position
- Research Assistant
Additional affiliations
February 2011 - February 2012
April 2013 - June 2021
Federal Technological University of Paraná Campus Campo Mourão
Position
- Professor
Education
March 2011 - March 2015
Field of study
- Geomorphological Mapping, Environment, Soil and Geomorphology
Publications
Publications (72)
Sustainable development assessments in hydrographic sub-basins are powerful tools used to guide stakeholders. However, there remains a gap in incorporating new indicators (e.g., biodiversity indicators) into sustainability indexes, which have generally underestimated the environmental dimension. We propose an update to these indexes by incorporatin...
This study delves into the pivotal role that indicators play in designing, assessing, and guiding policies for sustainable urban development. Indicators, encompassing both quantitative and qualitative measures, serve as essential tools in evaluating efforts toward sustainable development, providing a practical and objective means of understanding t...
Islands used to present environmental and social peculiarities because of their specific-related aspects, like boundedness, smallness, and isolation, that may shape spatial development patterns on island territories. Assessing inequalities in drinking water supply and sanitation is crucial to tracking progress toward universal and equitable access...
Human activities threaten the integrity of watersheds. We aimed to investigate the impact of land use on water quality, adopting a multiscale approach. We collected water samples from twelve streams in Southern Brazil and conducted limnological analyses (physical, chemical, and biological) during the dry season. We used the water quality index base...
Although protected areas (PAs) are designed to safeguard natural ecosystems from anthropic modifications, many PAs worldwide are subjected to numerous human-induced impacts. We evaluated whether the establishment of PAs in the Upper Paraná River floodplain region could reduce anthropic landscape changes and whether there is a difference in protecti...
Drought is a complex and devastating natural disaster that needs to be constantly investigated. In this study, standardized precipitation indexes (SPI-3 and SPI-6) were computed using daily precipitation data collected from six meteorological stations in a Mediterranean coastal basin (Northwestern Morocco) during the period from 1984 to 2021. Subse...
O presente livro consiste em um conjunto de revisões sobre os avanços teóricos e tecnológicos nos diversos temas da Geomorfologia a partir da experiência brasileira. Concebido para estar em uma plataforma on-line com acesso gratuito, o livro destina-se aos cursos de graduação e pós-graduação que utilizam os conhecimentos geomorfológicos. A obra pos...
Human population (often treated as overpopulation) has long been blamed as the main cause of biodiversity loss. Whilst this simplistic explanation may seem convenient, understanding the accuracy of the statement is crucial to develop effective priorities and targets to manage and reverse ongoing biodiversity loss. If untrue, the assertion may under...
Integrating water and sediment analysis with land use brings significant results in understanding the transformations in the watershed and assessing anthropic actions. We assess water and sediment samples collected in four sites in a countryside urban-farming watershed landscape in Southern Brazil. We performed the land-use, physical-chemical, micr...
Breve artigo sobre comunicação científica Por que escrever artigos científicos quando tanta coisa está publicada? Prof. Dr. Edivando Vitor do Couto
The mosaic landscape composition of forest fragments located on high slopes, shallow soils hinder ecological interactions and the survival of plant species. This study aimed to show, in an environment with these characteristics, the effect of the environmental gradient relating the soil, slope, and vegetation of a fragment of the Montane Seasonal S...
In freshwater ecosystems, flood pulses, the degree of connectivity between environments, and the vegetation mosaic are among the main variables affecting environmental structure at the landscape scale. At a finer scale, local limnological conditions seem to be more important for structuring river fish assemblages. However, rather than exerting isol...
Brazilian biodiversity is undergoing numerous attacks and misguided policies that aim to reduce protected areas (PAs) with the main argument of expanding agribusiness to improve the country's economic performance. An example is the draft law (DL) 527/2016, which aimed to reduce approximately 70% of the Devonian Escarpment Environmental Protection A...
• Freshwater ecosystems, providing valuable goods and services to humans, have been subjected to multiple human impacts, among which climate change plays a central role in threats to species. It is expected that protected areas, the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation efforts, will assume a decisive role in protecting freshwater species from t...
Participação do prof. Edivando Vitor do Couto, da UTFPR Campo Mourão, falando sobre Índices de sustentabilidade: os desafios de mensurar e espacializar, durante a disciplina Hidrologia Urbana do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Urbana da Universidade Estadual de Maringá.
Link para youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i66nAzcYBF4
A Amazônia abrange uma grande variedade de ambientes. Florestas inundadas, rios e igarapés integram a paisagem da maior floresta tropical do mundo. Os impactos das mudanças climáticas nos ecossistemas terrestres tem sido amplamente discutidos nos últimos anos. O aumento dos gases de efeito estufa, como consequência das ações humanas, promoveu a ele...
The Campo watershed is in the southern Brazil, in the country´s most fertile soil, so, with
extreme agricultural occupation. The initiative to a “Clean Campo river has actions at the
local society and a monitoring of environmental quality of the watershed. The project
aims at the life quality to the residents. We develop environmental education in...
Este artigo objetivou mapear o potencial eólico de micro e minigeração para Campo Mourão-PR, como fonte alternativa de geração no sul do Brasil. Dados mensais de uma série histórica de 36 anos (1980-2015) do INMET foram analisados e vinculados com o uso do solo. Para tanto utilizou-se o aplicativo SASPlanet, com imagem Bing, para a coleta da área u...
The elaboration of environmental sustainability indexes (ESI) aims to describe the complexity between social, environmental and ecological health. These indexes play a crucial role by helping stakeholders during the decision-making process and by identifying possible sites that require practical sustainable actions. In this study, we aim to elabora...
The elaboration of environmental sustainability indexes (ESI) aims to describe the complexity between social, environmental and ecological health. These indexes exert a fundamental role by helping stakeholders during the decision-making process and by identifying possible sites that need practical sustainable-focused actions. We aimed to elaborate...
The pollution of rivers and lakes in developing countries is considered one public health and environmental problem in the urban regions. Studies of historical pollution of these environments help to understand the effects of anthropization on the growth of medium and large cities. In an urban lake, Arthur Thomas lake, in southern Brazil, Paraná st...
To a “Rio do Campo Limpo” project was developed to improve the environmental quality of watershed and the quality of life of residents of a small watershed in the interior of the state of Paraná, Brazil. ▪ Extension actions are developed by students and teachers with the community as environmental education activities, aiming to bring technical kno...
The environmental changes caused by humans have impacted the survival of species. The deforestation and climate change, are the main cause of the increase in the importance the protected areas on the landscape. Thereby, identify the priority areas for conservation of the frugivorous fish (Piaractus mesopotamicus) on the Paraná-Paraguay basin, consi...
Brazilian’s native vegetation and biodiversity have been the target of political decisions which frequently benefit agricultural expansion unrestrictedly (Alves et al. 2019; Abessa et al. 2019). The Brazilian Native Vegetation Protection Law (BNVPL—No. 12.651) is what remained of the previous “Forest Code”, and such a change in the law caused drast...
Resumo. Riachos de cabeceira são mananciais de abastecimento de vários municípios paranaenses. Todavia o desflorestamento das margens, a poluição, o lançamento de resíduos sólidos e de efluentes têm promovido distúrbios nestes ambientes e em seus serviços ecossistêmicos. Com o objetivo de promover mudança de comportamento na população, pela sensibi...
This study uses species distribution modeling and physiological and functional traits to predict the impacts of climate change on native freshwater fish in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. We modelled future changes in taxonomic and functional diversity in 2050 and 2080 for two scenarios of carbon emissions, identifying areas of great interest...
The Atlantic Forest is highly anthropized, this reduce the areas of native vegetation and impacts the biodiversity of the biome. The objective of this study is to analyze forest remnants with native vegetation characteristics using a free GIS. This analysis takes place using landscape metrics and was based on the supervised vectorization of land us...
O avanço da tecnologia permitiu que estudos em áreas pudessem ocorrer remotamente, como em planícies de inundação, pois este ambiente é de difícil acesso. A planície de inundação do Alto Rio Paraná é um ambiente diverso em vegetação possuindo mais de 360 espécies, as quais são controladas pelos pulsos de inundação e devido a sua importância ecológi...
Abstract: Public services management is a fundamental role to public institutions, providing society with proper resources for a better quality of life. Local characteristics should be considered during public policies planning; however, generalizations are adopted to elaborate studies, overlooking these characteristics. Our objective was to apply...
O avanço da tecnologia permitiu que estudos em áreas pudessem ocorrer remotamente, como em planícies de inundação, pois este ambiente é de difícil acesso. A planície de inundação do Alto Rio Paraná é um ambiente diverso em vegetação possuindo mais de 360 espécies, as quais são controladas pelos pulsos de inundação e devido a sua importância ecológi...
The Brazilian Atlantic Forest and Brazilian Savanna (i. e. Cerrado) are classified as World Biodiversity Hotspots. Our goal was to analyze the spatial distribution of endangered species, in both habitats, within the Mourão River basin, southern Brazil. Forest remnants were mapped using images from the Landsat 8 satellite applying NDVI medium and la...
A sediment core was sampled in an urban lake in southern Brazil, and the presence of 27 trace elements was assessed. The geochronology showed that the core corresponds to the period from 1914 to 2012. Accumulation of metals and the level of pollution was measured by the geoaccumulation index (Igeo) and enrichment factor (EF). According to Igeo and...
In the present study, the environmental changes over the past 100 years in the Cambé River watershed in Southern Brazil were investigated. For this, a sediment core was collected to examine the distribution of metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and ecotoxicological markers. The core corresponds from 1914 to 2012, which was obtained by...
Forest fragmentation caused by human activities has many implications for natural landscapes, such as habitat reduction and the loss of biodiversity. This study investigated the temporal fragmentation process of forest remnants in a strongly agro-industrialised region in southern Brazil over 25 years. The studied watershed area hosts two important...
The Devonian Escarpment (DEEPA), located in the south of Brazil, represents an important area of environmental preservation composed by grasslands, gallery forests, as well as rock outcrops and archaeological sites. A law project (LP 527/2016), which suggests a reduction of the DEEPA area in approximately 70% of its original area (from 393,579 to 1...
Large river confluence zones are highly flexible and dynamic environments over time. The changes of the base levels in the confluence zone and their reflexes in the evolution of the upstream drainage network are foundation for the reconstruction of the past of landscapes. This paper aims to comprehend the changes on the base levels in the Ivai and...
Forest fragmentation may negatively impact fauna and flora. An important tool for the development and implementation of research on these effects is the use of a geographic information system (GIS). This paper aims to perform an integrated analysis of the landscape fragments that compose the Alonzo River watershed, Paraná State, by using remote sen...
Although several authors have pointed out the importance of earth surface process to passive margin escarpments relief evolution and even drainage rearrangements, the dynamics of a consolidated capture area (after a drainage network erodes the escarpment, as the one from the Itajaí-Açu River) remain poorly understood. Here, results are presented fr...
Os aterros sanitários são uma das formas de disposição final de Resíduos Sólidos Urbanos recomendadas pela Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos, instituída pela Lei n° 12.305, de agosto de 2010. Porém, algumas dificuldades podem ser encontradas pela administração pública na implantação de aterros sanitários, pela demanda de áreas relativamente gra...
Na região Noroeste do Paraná onde predominam arenitos do Grupo Caiuá, verifica-se a ocorrência de material ferruginoso (couraças e arenito ferruginizado), de origem pedogenética, relacionadas a fases de aplainamento de ciclos geomorfológicos. Esse material sustenta feições do tipo morros, morrotes e colinas, que se diferenciam na paisagem de relevo...
New technologies such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and advances in remote imaging surveys of the earth's surface systems offer tools that provide a better conception of geographical space. These tools are mainly applied to assess the way in which land use is ordered, and thus generate data that can assist decision-making and planning mea...
The transformation process of continuous forests to remaining forest fragments may have a negative impact on the fauna and flora of Brazilian biomes. The use of Geographic Information System (GIS) has become an important tool for the development and implementation of researches on landscape fragmentation effects. This paper aims to promote an integ...
The study aims to relate size and shape of the forest fragments in the city Santa Maria do Oeste-PR-Brazil. A total of 4227 forest fragments were selected and calculated their area and perimeter using the GIS Quantum GIS 2.8.2. They were classified as large, medium and small according to the area value. The patch perimeter was used for the calculat...
In this study we analyze the organization's drainage network and denudation rates in the long term through cosmogenic nuclides 10Be in order to understand the evolution of landforms southeast of the sedimentary basin of Bauru - Brazil. The methods employed include the morphometric analysis of the drainage network in GIS environment and the evaluati...
In the northwest Paraná – south Brazil – dominated by sandstones of the Caiuá Group (Bauru Basin, Upper Cretaceous), there occur duricrust of pedogenetic origin, related to planation stages of geomorphological cycles. These crusts maintain morphological features as hills, hillocks and knolls, which differ from the landscape of gentle relief, charac...
The oxisol-ultisollateral passage appears to be common in tropical environments, little is known about the mechanism that influences or triggers the beginning of this passage, however it is known that slope ruptures are found on the hillsides especially in transition sites. Many studies have aimed for a gradual evolution of oxisol to ultisol. In th...
RESUMO O presente trabalho aplica um procedimento metodológico para a avaliação ambiental de uma área úmida e de seu entorno protetivo, aliada ao estudo de ecologia de paisagem, da nascente do Rio Km 119 que situa-se na cidade de Campo Mourão, Paraná, Brasil. Para o reconhecimento e caracterização da área de estudo, utilizou-se imagens de satélite...
The present study examined the influence of the availability of riparian vegetation and C3 emergent aquatic macrophytes on carbon assimilation by Prochilodus lineatus.The vegetal cover of these producers, available at 30 m of the bank, for the terrestrial ecosystem of the rivers Baia, Ivinheima and Paraná, was quantified with the image processing L...
Resumo: O presente estudo teve como objetivo a avaliação ambiental de uma área úmida e de seu entorno protetivo, da nascente do Rio Km 119 que se situa na cidade de Campo Mourão – PR. Para o reconhecimento e caracterização da área de estudo, utilizou-se imagens de satélite e levantamento de campo, onde foram feitas coletas de solos de acordo com a...
O presente trabalho investiga a influência morfoestrutural e morfotectônica no arranjo das drenagens da zona de falha rio Alonzo. Para tanto, utiliza-se, principalmente, de análises de índices geomorfológicos da rede de drenagem. A metodologia aplicada fundamentou-se na integração de dados Shuttle Radar Topography Mission SRTM e nas variáveis morfo...
The present study is an investigation of the discharge patterns of Alonzo’s River (PR, Brazil) when related to precipitation in the period of 1976-2009. An increase in discharge within time was expected due to urbanization. The occurrence and amount of vegetated areas was studied in 4 different years to check if the development can indeed be consid...
Resumo O presente trabalho investiga a infl uência morfoestrutural e morfotectônica no arranjo das drenagens da zona de falha rio Alonzo. Para tanto, utiliza-se, principalmente, de análises de índices geomorfológicos da rede de drenagem. A metodologia aplicada fundamentou-se na integração de dados Shuttle Radar Topography Mission SRTM e nas variáve...
Palavras-chave: morfotectônica, bacia do rio Alonzo, rede de drenagem, análise morfométrica
This article presents the seppomen map technique through the computer application by using the free GIS software SPRING (R). The methodology was applied to the study in the case of the geomorphologhical evolution of the Parana plateaux edges contained in the Faxinal topographic sheet - state of Parana - Brazil, the results were the digital elevatio...
RESUMO: Com o aumento gradual das geotecnologias e o avanço cientifico relacionado às problemáticas ambientais, estudos e trabalhos que estão se utilizando de modelos de elevação, têm recebido acentuados estímulos. O objetivo deste trabalho foi realizar uma análise quantitativa temporal, por meio da técnica da cienciometria, considerando o número d...
A vegetação da planície fluvial do rio Paraná sofre a pressão da ocupação antrópica desde a década de 1950. A área próxima a Porto Rico (Paraná) tem sido estudada desde os anos 1980, mas não há estudos dirigidos à distribuição espacial da vegetação. Os objetivos deste trabalho são cartografar as unidades vegetais e verificar a evolução temporal de...
Introdução Caracterização da Área de Estudo Contexto Geológico e Geomorfológico Metodologia Resultados Lineamentos Estruturais Discussão Considerações Finais Agradecimentos Referencias Bibliográficas RESUMO – O presente artigo apresenta dados morfométricos da rede de drenagem e estabelece a correlação morfoestrutural da área abrangida pela carta to...
The present paper represents morphometric data of the drainage network and determine a morphostructural correlation of the area covered by the topographic map of Faxinal - PR, located at the border plateaux state of Parana. At the realization this work we used the topographic map of Faxinal scale 1: 50,000 leaves SG-22-V-III-1 and SRTM radar data.T...
RESUMO O presente estudo tem por finalidade identificar unidades morfodinâmicas na bacia do ribeirão Morangueira, bem como avaliar suas potencialidades e riscos ambientais, a fim de subsidiar futuros projetos de zoneamento geoambiental do município de Maringá. A bacia em questão ocupa importante espaço geográfico no município de Maringá. Cerca de 4...
Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo principal a analise de paisagem a partir de um recorte espacial, o municipio de Novo Itacolomi, buscando analisar as transformacoes historicas, economicas e ambientais ocorridas nesse espaco, bem como qualificar a interferencia da acao humana na producao e na transformacao dessa area em estudo, a qual resultou na di...
Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo principal a análise de paisagem a partir de um recorte espacial, o município de Novo Itacolomi, buscando analisar as transformações históricas, econômicas e ambientais ocorridas nesse espaço, bem como qualificar a interferência da ação humana na produção e na transformação dessa área em estudo, a qual resultou na di...
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In the context of applying the RothC model to predict soil organic carbon turnover in Mediterranean ecosystems, what specific decomposition rates are recommended or have been empirically validated? Considering the unique climatic and ecological characteristics of the Mediterranean area, which include a typically hot, dry summer and mild, wet winter, how do these conditions influence the selection of decomposition rates within the model? Additionally, are there any recent studies or adaptations of the RothC model that have focused on Mediterranean environments, and what insights do they offer regarding the model's parameters and performance in these regions?
Hello everyone, I need help understanding some calculations related to SOC (Soil Organic Carbon) stock. I have parameters measured by soil depth, including Bulk Density (g/cm³) and Organic Carbon (g/kg), and I need to calculate this in terms of TCO2/ha/year. Which equations do you recommend for this conversion?
Hello researchers,
I am currently seeking literature to bolster my exploration of "How substantial reduction in the usage of synthetic fertilizers contributes to soil carbon sequestration." Kindly provide me with relevant references and sources to support my research.
Thank you.
Through REDD+ projects, small and medium-sized farms and traditional communities have a tremendous capacity to sequester carbon. They not only play a significant role in stopping illicit deforestation, but they also have high expectations for financial rewards for protecting their lands. Despite this, the carbon market has ignored them.
Hello guys!
I am looking for a way to build land-use models for the future 2050 and 2100. In addition to social and economic variables, I would like to include in these models the effects of climate change following the scenarios of SSPs 4.5 and 8.5. Do you have any suggestions for me? What are the limitations of these models?
