The Brazilian East coast was intensely affected by deforestation, which drastically cut back the original biome. The possible impacts of this process on water resources are still unknown. The purpose of this study was an evaluation of the impacts of deforestation on the main water balance components of the Galo creek watershed, in the State of Espírito Santo, on the East coast of Brazil. Considering the real conditions of the watershed, the SWAT model was calibrated with data from 1997 […]

The spatial variability of soil characteristics makes the estimation of water infiltration highly dependent on the scale of analysis. Many studies require information on the dynamics of infiltration to describe the dynamics of other processes associated with water, sediment and solutes. This study aims to use two methodological strategies to estimate water infiltration at the catchment scale. The parameters of two infiltration models were fitted to a data set collected over two years of monitoring (77 rainfall-runoff events) occurring under […]