Forest cover and water quality in tropical agricultural watersheds

Geospatial Analysis of Soil Erosion including Precipitation Scenarios in a Conservation Area of the Amazon Region in Peru

“…Agroecosystems and buffer zones around the ACP depend on ecosystem conditions and regulating ecosystem services, for example, the action of vegetation cover against soil erosion or as a function of water quality and quantity. Likewise, the replacement of forest by other land uses can cause serious impacts on the quality of river water, altering its physical, chemical, and biological characteristics, so Permanent Preservation Areas (PPAs) should be established, in order to assess the variability of its quality because it has been shown that degraded watersheds presented higher values of solids, turbidity, nutrients, and coliforms, in addition to presenting greater variability of temporal data compared to forested watersheds [15]. us, assessments of ecosystem services, conditions, and interactions are very important to understand the relationships in highly managed systems [16].…”