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The Rio Chagres, Panama

A Multidisciplinary Profile of a Tropical Watershed

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Russell S. Harmon

    1. Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, USA

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  • Multidisciplinary nature
  • Aimed at understanding the physical and ecological components of an isolated and largely pristine tropical rainforest

Part of the book series: Water Science and Technology Library (WSTL, volume 52)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Setting the Scene

    1. A Geographic Overview of Panama

      • Eugene J. Palka
      Pages 3-18

    2. An Introduction to the Panama Canal Watershed

      • Russell S. Harmon
      Pages 19-28

    3. Light and Shadows in the Management of the Panama Canal Watershed

      • Stanley Heckadon-Moreno
      Pages 29-44

    4. Geological Development of Panama

      • Russell S.Harmon
      Pages 45-62

  3. The Upper Río Chagres Basin

    1. Igneous Geology and Geochemistry of the Upper Río Chagres Basin

      • Gerhard Wörner, Russell S. Harmon, Gerald Hartmann, Klaus Simon
      Pages 65-81

    2. GIS-Based Stream Network Analysis for the Upper Río Chagres Basin, Panama

      • David Kinner, Helena Mitasova, Robert Stallard, Russell S. Harmon, Laura Toma
      Pages 83-95

    3. Soils of the Upper Río Chagres Basin, Panama

      • J. Bruce J. Harrison, Jan M.H. Hendrickx, David Vega, Lucas E. Calvo-Gobbetti
      Pages 97-112

    4. Hydrology of Hillslope Soils in the Upper Río Chagres Watershed, Panama

      • Jan M.H. Hendrickx, David Vega, J. Bruce J. Harrison, Lucas E. Calvo Gobbetti, Pedro Rojas, Timothy W. Miller
      Pages 113-138

    5. Infiltration in the Upper Río Chagres Basin, Panama

      • Lucas E. Calvo, Fred L. Ogden, Jan M.H. Hendrickx
      Pages 139-147

    6. Runoff Production in the Upper Río Chagres Watershed, Panama

      • Justin M. Niedzialek, Fred L. Ogden
      Pages 149-168

    7. Downstream Hydraulic Geometry along a Tropical Mountain River

      • Ellen Wohl
      Pages 169-188

    8. Bedrock Channel Incision along the Upper Río Chagres Basin, Panama

      • Ellen Wohl, Gregory Springer
      Pages 189-209

    9. Using TRMM to Explore Rainfall Variability in the Upper Río Chagres Catchment, Panama

      • Ryan G. Knox, Fred L. Ogden, Tufa Dinku
      Pages 211-226

    10. Tree Species Composition and Beta Diversity in the Upper Río Chagres Basin, Panama

      • Rolando Pérez, Salomón Aguilar, Agustín Somoza, Richard Condit, Israel Tejada, Clara Camargo et al.
      Pages 227-235

    11. A Note on Amphibians and Reptiles in the Upper Río Chagres Basin, Panama

      • Roberta Ibáñez D.
      Pages 237-242

  4. The Regional Perspective

    1. High Spatial and Spectral Resolution Remote Sensing of Panama Canal Zone Watershed Forests

      • Stephanie Bohlman, David Lashlee
      Pages 245-258

    2. Biogeographic History and the High Beta-Diversity of Rainforest Trees in Panama

      • Christopher W. Dick, Richard Condit, Eldridge Bermingham
      Pages 259-269

    3. World Holdings of Avian Tissues from Panama

      • Sievert Rohwer, Robert C. Faucett
      Pages 271-280

    4. Estimation of Landslide Importance in Hillslope Erosion Within the Panama Canal Watershed

      • Robert F. Stallard, David A. Kinner
      Pages 281-295
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About this book

This book calls the attention of the scientific community, government organizations and non-government agencies, and the general public, to arguably one of the most important and complex of the world’s tropical rainforest regions – the greater Panama Canal Watershed. The Río Chagres basin is the primary source for water to operate the Panama Canal, and also supplies water for electricity generation and potable water for municipal use, but this important national resource is largely unstudied from a scientific standpoint. The broad objective of the book is to characterize and understand the physical and ecological components of an isolated and largely pristine tropical rainforest and describe how the different natural components of a tropical rainforest interact with one another. The majority of the 23 papers contained in the volume are based upon presentations made at an international scientific symposium of the same title held at the Gamboá Rainforest Resort and Conference Center in Gamboá, Panama on 24-26 February 2003. In turn, most of the symposium presentations arose form research undertaken during a multidisciplinary field study conducted in the upper Río Chagres watershed in 2001 by an international group of scientists. Convened under sponsorship of the Autoridad del Canal de Panama, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Universidad Tecnológica de Panama and US Army Yuma Proving Ground Tropic Regions Test Center, this conference brought together some 50 scientists, engineers, and government officials from the international community.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, USA

    Russell S. Harmon

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