The Rio Chagres, Panama

by Harmon, Russell S.

• ISBN13: 9781402032981
• ISBN10: 1402032986
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

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 Rio 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 point of view.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.

Table of Contents

Dedication	v
Contributing Authors	xi
Preface	xvii
Part I: Setting the Scene
1. Geographic Overview of Panama: Pathway to the Continents and Link Between The Seas	3	(16)
EUGENE J. PALKA
2. An Introduction to the Panama Canal Watershed	19	(10)
RUSSELL S. HARMON
3. Light and Shadows in the Management of the Panama Canal Watershed	29	(16)
STANLEY HECKADON-MORENO
4. The Geological Development of Panama	45	(20)
RUSSELL S. HARMON
Part II: The Upper Rio Chagres Basin
5. Igneous Geology and Geochemistry of Igneous Rocks of the Upper Rio Chagres Basin	65	(18)
GERHARD WÖRNER, RUSSELL S. HARMON, GERALD HARTMANN, and KLAUS SIMON
6. GIS-based and Stream Network Analysis for the Upper Rio Chagres Basin, Panama	83	(14)
DAVID A. KINNER, HELENA MITASOVA, ROBERT F. STALLARD, RUSSELL S. HARMON, and LAURA TOMA
7. Soils of the Upper Rio Chagres Basin, Panama: Soil Character and Variability in Two First Order Drainages	97	(16)
J. BRUCE J. HARRISON, JAN M.H. HENDRICKX, DAVID VEGA, and LUCAS E. CALVO-GOBBETTI
8. Hydrology of Hillslope Soils in the Upper Rio Chagres Watershed, Panama	113	(26)
JAN M.H. HENDRICKX, DAVID VEGA, J. BRUCE J. HARRISON, LUCAS E. CALVO-GOBBETI, PEDRO ROJAS, and TIMOTHY W. MILLER
9. Infiltration in the Upper Rio Chagres Basin, Panama: The Soil Conservation Service "Curve Numbers"	139	(10)
LUCAS E. CALVO-GOBBETI, FRED L. OGDEN, and JAN M. H. HENDRICKX
10. Runoff Production in the Upper Rio Chagres Watershed, Panama	149	(20)
JUSTIN L. NIEDZIALEK and FRED M. OGDEN
11. Downstream Hydraulic Geometry Along a Tropical Mountain River	169	(20)
ELLEN WOHL
12. Bedrock Channel Incision Along the Upper Rio Chagres Basin, Panama	189	(22)
ELLEN WOHL and GREGORY SPRINGER
13. Using TRMM to Explore Rainfall Variability in the Upper Rió Chagres Catchment, Panama	211	(16)
RYAN G. KNOX, FRED L. OGDEN and TUFA DINKU
14. Tree Species Composition and Beta Diversity in the Upper Rio Chagres Basin, Panama	227	(10)
ROLANDO PÉREZ, SALOMÓN AGUILAR, AGUSTiN SOMOZA, RICHARD CONDIT, ISRAEL TEJADA, CLARA CAMARGO, and SUZANNE LAO
15. A Note on Amphibians and Reptiles in the Upper Rio Chagres Basin, Panama	237	(8)
ROBERTO IBÁÑEZ D.
Part III: The Regional Perspective
16. High Spatial and Spectral Resolution Remote Sensing of Panama Canal Zone Watershed Forests: An Applied Example Mapping Tropical Tree Species	245	(14)
STEPHANIE BOHLMAN and DAVID LASHLEE
17. Biogeographic History and the High Beta-Diversity of Rainforest Trees in Panama	259	(12)
CHRISTOPHER W. DICK, RICHARD CONDIT, and ELDRIDGE BERMINGHAM
18. World Holdings of Avian Tissues from Panama: with Notes on a Collection from the Upper Rio Chagres, 2002	271	(10)
SIEVERT ROHWER and ROBERT C. FAUCETT
19. Estimation of Landslide Importance in Hillslope Erosion in the Panama Canal Watershed	281	(16)
ROBERT F. STALLARD and DAVID A. KINNER
20. Sediment Generation Rates for the Upper Rio Chagres Basin: Evidence From Cosmogenic Be	297	(18)
KYLE NICHOLS, PAUL BIERMAN, ROBERT FINKEL, and JENNIFER LARSEN
21. Estimation of Regional Actual Evapotranspiration in the Panama Canal Watershed	315	(10)
JAN M.H. HENDRICKX, WIM G.M. BASTIAANSSEN, EDWIN J.M. NOORDMAN, SUNG-HO HONG, and LUCAS E. CALVO-GOBBETTI
22. Operational Rainfall and Flow Forecasting for the Panama Canal Watershed	325	(12)
KONSTANTINE P. GEORGAKAKOS and JASON A. SPERFSLAGE
23. Projected Land-Use Change for the Eastern Panama Canal Watershed and its Potential Impact	337	(10)
VIRGINIA H. DALE, SANDRA BROWN, MAGNOLIA O. CALDERÓN, ARIZMENDIS S. MONTOYA, and RAÚL E. MARTINEZ
Index	347