Abstract
Brazil contains a large number and variety of wetlands. Pronounced wet and dry seasons lead to strong fluctuations in the water levels of streams and rivers. Riparian zones and large river-floodplains as well as poorly drained, extended, flat interfluvial areas are periodically flooded and dry according to the precipitation pattern. A definition of wetlands is proposed. Basing on the floodpulse concept, the outer wetland borders are defined according to the mean maximum flood level.
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Junk, W. J., Piedade, M. T. F., Schoengart, J., Wittmann, F., & da Cunha, C. N. (2018). Brazilian wetlands: Classification. In The Wetland Book: I: Structure and Function, Management, and Methods (pp. 1569–1575). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9659-3_333
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