FIGURE 7 in Two centuries of ornithological exploration of the Rio Doce basin, southeastern Brazil. Part I-A history of the landscape, its explorers, and their collections

FIGURE 7. Anthropic landscapes in the Rio Doce Basin: A) recently burned secondary semi-deciduous forest in process of regeneration in the municipality of Araponga; B) eroded soil bank along roadside in the municipality of Açucena; C and D) degraded pasture in Açucena; E) man-made pasture with granitic inselbergs in the municipality of Mutum; F) degraded pasture and suppressed riparian forest in Mutum; G–I) wreckage in the county of Bento Rodrigues, one year after the passage of the sludge tsunami caused by the rupture of a tailing dam; the child doll symbolizes the 19 deaths caused by the disaster; J) the now heavily silted Risoleta Neves dam, where about 20 million m3 of sediment were trapped after the rupture of the tailing dam; K) the clear waters from a tributary empties into the muddy, sediment rich, water of the Rio Doce one year after the accident; L) view of the Rio Doce from the Rio Doce State Park. The riparian forests have been almost completely extirpated from the opposite bank, giving place to eucalyptus plantations. Photographs by Leonardo Lopes (A–F, L) and Felipe Leite (G–K).