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Article Dans Une Revue Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Année : 2012

Hydrochemical variability at the Upper Paraguay Basin and Pantanal wetland

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Compartmentalization is a prerequisite to understand large wetlands that receive water from several sources. However, it faces the heterogeneity in space and time, resulting from physical, chemical and biological processes that are specific to wetlands. The Pantanal is a vast seasonally flooded continental wetland located in the centre of South America. The chemical composition of the waters that supply the Pantanal (70 rivers) has been studied in order to establish a compartmentalization of the wetland based on soil-water interactions. A PCA-based EMMA (End-Members Mixing Analysis) procedure shows that the chemistry of the rivers can be viewed as a mixture of 3 end-members, influenced by lithology and land use, and delimiting large regions. Although the chemical composition of the end-members changed between dry and wet seasons, their spatial distribution was maintained. The results were extended to the floodplain by simple tributary mixing calculation according to the hydrographical network and to the areas of influence for each river when in overflow conditions. The resulting map highlights areas of high geochemical contrast on either side of the river Cuiaba in the north, and of the rivers Aquidauana and Abobral in the south. The PCA-based treatment on a sampling conducted in the Nhecolândia, a large sub region of the Pantanal, allowed the identification and ordering of the processes that control the geochemical variability of the surface waters. Despite an enormous variability in electrical conductivity and pH, all data collected were in agreement with an evaporation process of the Taquari River water, which supplies the region. Evaporation and associated saline precipitations (Mg-calcite, Mg-silicates K-silicates) explained more than 77 % of the total variability in the chemistry of the regional surface water sampling.
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hal-02054642 , version 1 (07-03-2019)

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A. T. Rezende Filho, S. Furian, R. L Victoria, C. Mascre, V. Valles, et al.. Hydrochemical variability at the Upper Paraguay Basin and Pantanal wetland. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2012, 16 (8), pp.2723-2737. ⟨10.5194/hess-16-2723-2012⟩. ⟨hal-02054642⟩
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