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An innovative hydrological model for the sparsely-gauged Essequibo River basin, northern Amazonia (2023)
Journal Article
Hughes, D., Birkinshaw, S., Parkin, G., Bovolo, C. I., Ó Dochartaigh, B., MacDonald, A., Franklin, A. L., Cummings, G., & Pereira, R. (2023). An innovative hydrological model for the sparsely-gauged Essequibo River basin, northern Amazonia. International Journal of River Basin Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/15715124.2023.2278678

Tropical river basins – crucial components of global water and carbon cycles – are threatened by logging, mining, agricultural conversion, and climate change. Thus, decision-makers require hydrological impact assessments to sustainably manage threate... Read More about An innovative hydrological model for the sparsely-gauged Essequibo River basin, northern Amazonia.

A systematic comparison of deforestation drivers and policy effectiveness across the Amazon biome (2023)
Journal Article
Hänggli, A., Levy, S., Armenteras Pascual, D., Bovolo, I., Brandao, J., Rueda, X., & Garrett, R. D. (2023). A systematic comparison of deforestation drivers and policy effectiveness across the Amazon biome. Environmental Research Letters, 18(7), Article 073001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acd408

The Amazon biome, spanning nine countries, has one of the highest rates of deforestation worldwide. This deforestation contributes to biodiversity loss, climate change, the spread of infectious diseases, and damage to rural and indigenous livelihoods... Read More about A systematic comparison of deforestation drivers and policy effectiveness across the Amazon biome.

Managing Flood Risk in Guyana : The Conservancy Adaptation Project, 2008-2013 (2018)
Report
Bovolo, C. (in press). Managing Flood Risk in Guyana : The Conservancy Adaptation Project, 2008-2013. [No known commissioning body]

The East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) and east coast drainage and irrigation systems provide water storage and flood control mechanisms for Guyana's most populous region, including the capital city of Georgetown. In 2005, extreme rainfall caused... Read More about Managing Flood Risk in Guyana : The Conservancy Adaptation Project, 2008-2013.

The Guiana Shield rainforests – overlooked guardians of South American climate (2018)
Journal Article
Bovolo, C., Wagner, T., Parkin, G., Hein-Griggs, D., Pereira, R., & Jones, R. (2018). The Guiana Shield rainforests – overlooked guardians of South American climate. Environmental Research Letters, 13(7), Article 074029. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aacf60

Tropical forests are global climate regulators through their interaction with hydrological and biogeochemical cycles. Despite extensive research on deforestation in South America and its global impact, the role of the largely intact Guiana Shield for... Read More about The Guiana Shield rainforests – overlooked guardians of South American climate.

Facing complexity in tropical conservation: how reduced impact logging and climatic extremes affect beta diversity in tropical amphibian assemblages (2016)
Journal Article
Hölting, M., Bovolo, C., & Ernst, R. (2016). Facing complexity in tropical conservation: how reduced impact logging and climatic extremes affect beta diversity in tropical amphibian assemblages. Biotropica, 48(4), 528-536. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12309

Biodiversity in pristine forest biomes is increasingly disturbed by human activity. Drivers such as logging and climate extremes are thought to collectively erode diversity, but their interactions are not well understood. However, ignoring such compl... Read More about Facing complexity in tropical conservation: how reduced impact logging and climatic extremes affect beta diversity in tropical amphibian assemblages.

Our common future? Cross-scalar scenario analysis for social-ecological sustainability of the Guiana Shield, South America (2014)
Journal Article
Mistry, J., Tschirhart, C., Verwer, C., Glastra, R., Davis, O., Jafferally, D., …Berardi, A. (2014). Our common future? Cross-scalar scenario analysis for social-ecological sustainability of the Guiana Shield, South America. Environmental Science and Policy, 44, 126-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2014.05.007

Scenarios help build a shared understanding of potential futures and allow us to engage with how interventions or activities may impact on people and the environment. There are many scenario sets that have been developed at the global and regional le... Read More about Our common future? Cross-scalar scenario analysis for social-ecological sustainability of the Guiana Shield, South America.

Implementation Completion and Results Report (TF-91692) on a grant from the Global Environment Facility Special Climate Change Fund in the amount of US$ 3.8 Million to the Republic of Guyana for a Conservancy Adpatation Project. (2014)
Report
Bovolo, C., & Guzman, A. (in press). Implementation Completion and Results Report (TF-91692) on a grant from the Global Environment Facility Special Climate Change Fund in the amount of US$ 3.8 Million to the Republic of Guyana for a Conservancy Adpatation Project. [No known commissioning body]

Seasonal patterns of rainfall and river isotopic chemistry in northern Amazonia (Guyana): From the headwater to the regional scale (2014)
Journal Article
Pereira, R., Bovolo, C. I., Forsythe, N., Pedentchouk, N., Parkin, G., & Wagner, T. (2014). Seasonal patterns of rainfall and river isotopic chemistry in northern Amazonia (Guyana): From the headwater to the regional scale. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 52, 108-118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2014.02.005

We use first field-based observations of precipitation and river isotopic chemistry from a three-year study (2009–2011) in rainforest and nearby savannah in central Guyana at the northern rim of the Amazon rainforest to establish the quality of model... Read More about Seasonal patterns of rainfall and river isotopic chemistry in northern Amazonia (Guyana): From the headwater to the regional scale.

Mobilization of optically invisible dissolved organic matter in response to rainstorm events in a tropical forest headwater river (2014)
Journal Article
Pereira, R., Bovolo, C. I., Spencer, R. G., Hernes, P. J., Tipping, E., Vieth-Hillebrand, A., …Wagner, T. (2014). Mobilization of optically invisible dissolved organic matter in response to rainstorm events in a tropical forest headwater river. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(4), 1202-1208. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013gl058658

This study emphasizes the importance of rainstorm events in mobilizing carbon at the soil‐stream interface from tropical rainforests. Half‐hourly geochemical/isotopic records over a 13.5 h period from a 20 km2 tropical rainforest headwater in Guyana... Read More about Mobilization of optically invisible dissolved organic matter in response to rainstorm events in a tropical forest headwater river.

Fine-scale regional climate patterns in the Guianas, tropical South America, based on observations and reanalysis data (2012)
Journal Article
Bovolo, C. I., Pereira, R., Parkin, G., Kilsby, C., & Wagner, T. (2012). Fine-scale regional climate patterns in the Guianas, tropical South America, based on observations and reanalysis data. International Journal of Climatology, 32(11), 1665-1689. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.2387

The dense, intact rainforests of the Guianas (northern Amazonia) are important for the regulation of the local and regional climate, but preclude easy access so a large data gap exists. The rainforest–savannah boundary may also be particularly suscep... Read More about Fine-scale regional climate patterns in the Guianas, tropical South America, based on observations and reanalysis data.

Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change on the Ebro River Basin (2010)
Book Chapter
Zambrano-Bigiarini, M., Majone, B., Bellin, A., Bovolo, C. I., Blenkinsop, S., & Fowler, H. (2010). Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change on the Ebro River Basin. In The Ebro River Basin (47-75). https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2010_85

This work presents hydrological simulations on the Ebro River basin (Spain), using both control (1961–1990) and future (2071–2100) climate scenarios, to investigate the effect of climate change on water resources. Using the Soil and Water Assessment... Read More about Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change on the Ebro River Basin.

A distributed framework for multi-risk assessment of natural hazards used to model the effects of forest fire on hydrology and sediment yield (2009)
Journal Article
Bovolo, C. I., Abele, S. J., Bathurst, J. C., Caballero, D., Ciglan, M., Eftichidis, G., & Simo, B. (2009). A distributed framework for multi-risk assessment of natural hazards used to model the effects of forest fire on hydrology and sediment yield. Computers and Geosciences, 35(5, SI), 924-945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2007.10.010