Ronaldo Luiz Mincato

ORCID: 0000-0001-8127-0325
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Research Areas
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Geography and Environmental Studies
  • Soil Management and Crop Yield
  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Rural Development and Agriculture
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Environmental and biological studies
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Environmental Sustainability and Education
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Chromium effects and bioremediation
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow

Universidade Federal de Alfenas
2016-2025

University of Montenegro
2017-2024

Griffith University
2024

Weatherford College
2024

Universitario Francisco de Asís
2016-2023

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2022

Institute of Natural Science
2020

Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
2020

Watershed Center
2020

Watershed
2019

The Cantareira System is one of the largest water supply systems in world, supplying about half consumed by 22 million inhabitants Metropolitan Region São Paulo, southeastern Brazil. In this scenario, view climate change, silting a serious environmental threat and major challenge to sustainability reservoirs. Therefore, identifying provenance sediments an essential tool support soil conservation policies, slowing erosion processes mitigating deposition Thus, study aimed model losses—sediment...

10.3390/w15081490 article EN Water 2023-04-11

Specialty coffee beans are those produced, processed, and characterized following the highest quality standards, toward delivering a superior final product. Environmental, climatic, genetic, processing factors greatly influence green beans' chemical profile, which reflects on pricing. The present study focuses assessment of eight major health-beneficial bioactive compounds in aiming to underscore geographical origin post-harvesting beverage. For that, we examined non-volatile profile...

10.1016/j.foodres.2024.114346 article EN cc-by Food Research International 2024-04-19

The water erosion process has a considerable negative effect on tropical soils, causes soil losses from arable land and reduces the capacity to support surrounding ecosystems.Estimating caused by is fundamental for evaluating impacts of various production systems.Therefore, improving loss estimates via adaptation models different edaphoclimatic environments necessary estimating local geographic climatic differences.This study aimed adapt, apply evaluate potentialities Potential Erosion...

10.5935/1806-6690.20200004 article EN cc-by Ciência Agronômica/Revista ciência agronômica 2019-12-05

Soil losses due to water erosion threaten the sustainability of agriculture and food security current future generations. This study estimated potential soil sediment production under different types land uses in a subbasin Municipality Alfenas, southern Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. The objective this research was evaluate application Potential Erosion Method by Intensity Drainage program correlate findings with results obtained Revised Universal Loss Equation as well geoprocessing...

10.5433/1679-0359.2019v40n2p555 article EN publisher-specific-oa Semina Ciências Agrárias 2019-04-15

Water erosion is one of the most important soil degradation processes and it can be intensified by land use vegetal covering changes. Thus, water modeling studies associated to multi temporal analyses are effective in assessing how changes cover affects sediment yield. Therefore, considering modifications from 1986 2011, aim this study ranged estimate rates compare them loss tolerance (SLT) limit Latosols (Oxisols) at Ribeirão Caçús sub-basin, South Minas Gerais State, Southeast Brazil,...

10.1590/s1413-70542015000100007 article EN cc-by Ciência e Agrotecnologia 2015-02-01

ABSTRACT Water erosion is one of the main problems faced in coffee cultivation, as it promotes environmental degradation and crop yield decrease. Erosion estimates support planning conservation management practices allowing determining rates soil losses. Thus, objective this paper was to estimate loss by water using Potential Method a sub-basin predominantly covered cultivation then compare results with Soil Loss Tolerance limits. The study area Coroado Stream Sub-basin, located at Alfenas...

10.1590/1413-7054201943012719 article EN cc-by Ciência e Agrotecnologia 2019-01-01

Water erosion has severe impacts on soil and the carbon cycle. In tropical regions, it is significantly influenced by rainfall, erodibility, rapid changes in land use cover (LULC), agricultural management practices. Understanding dynamics of water essential for implementing precise degradation control. This study aimed to estimate organic (SOC) losses due over five years a coffee-producing area Brazil using revised universal loss equation (RUSLE). The results revealed that average coffee...

10.3390/su17030821 article EN Sustainability 2025-01-21

The ongoing advancement of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and the evolution small-scale cameras have bridged gap between traditional ground-based surveys orbital sensors. However, these systems present challenges, including limited coverage area, image stabilization constraints, complex processing. In water quality monitoring, difficulties are further compounded by sun glint effects, which hinder construction accurate orthomosaics in homogeneous surfaces affect radiometric accuracy. This...

10.3390/drones9030173 article EN cc-by Drones 2025-02-26

Dam siltation has become a serious problem in arid and semi-arid countries under climate variability, where soil erosion represent major challenge that face the industry of dams.In Morocco policy dam construction is one main keys sustainable development, but unlikely, caused by still present big constraint.This study was carried out sub-basin Tillouguite upstream Bin El Ouidane High Atlas, region Beni Mellal Khenifra, Morocco.The aims to estimate production material: losses, real losses rate...

10.17707/agricultforest.68.2.15 article EN The Journal Agriculture and Forestry 2022-06-30

Water erosion is one of the main environmental impacts land use. When soil and water losses occur, nutrients essential for growth maintenance plants are removed, with harmful outcomes on sustainability agriculture environment. In addition, they lead to other deleterious effects, such as sedimentation eutrophication bodies. Estimation due in sub-basins prediction degradation, especially areas semi-intensive cultivation, coffee fields. Thus, aim this study was estimate relation limit loss...

10.1590/18069657rbcs20170093 article EN cc-by Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 2018-07-02

RESUMO Em estado natural, os Latossolos apresentam grande estabilidade e resistência à erosão, sendo mais abundantes utilizados para atividades agropecuárias no sul de Minas Gerais. Contudo, nos últimos cem anos, estes foram submetidos a cultivos manejos que favorecem erosão hídrica. Este estudo objetivou estimar as taxas hídrica em Vermelhos distróficos, partir da Equação Universal Perdas Solo Revisada, comparação com limites tolerância perda solo, avaliar o impacto sobre dos na região,...

10.1590/1983-40632015v4531197 article PT cc-by Pesquisa Agropecuária Tropical 2015-06-01

Effective management of nutrient application is important part the crop production puzzle and it seems that nano-fertilizers may have high potential for achieving sustainable production.A field experiment was carried out to investigate effect adding different nano-size biological fertilizers on maize growth under various irrigation regimes.The conducted optimal level (up ~50% capacity) which applied from beginning reproductive period.Fertilizer's treatments included control (Nf;...

10.17707/agricultforest.67.2.11 article EN cc-by The Journal Agriculture and Forestry 2021-06-30

Organic carbon performs essential functions in soils. Soils act as sources or sinks of atmospheric organic carbon. Agricultural management influences soil carbon, impacting climate change. One the crops most vulnerable to change is coffee. Brazil world's largest coffee producer, with a predominance under conventional system, sloping terrain and absence conservationist practices. The practices results an increase loss rates due water emissions, well reduction production. This paper aimed...

10.55730/1300-011x.3184 article EN cc-by TURKISH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY 2024-06-06

Sewage sludge is the solid residue obtained from urban sewage treatment plants. It possible to use in a sustainable way as fertilizer and soil conditioner due its high levels of organic matter nutrients. Besides pathogens volatile compounds, may also contain heavy metals which accumulate contaminate crops food chain. The aim this study was evaluates changes fertility dystrophic Red Latosol availability following application sludge. assessed whether supplied large amounts would decrease...

10.1590/s1413-70542013000600004 article EN cc-by Ciência e Agrotecnologia 2013-12-01

Nitrogen is an essential element for coffee production. However, when fertilization do not consider the spatial variability of agricultural parameters, it can generate economic losses, such as low productivity, and environmental impacts, pollution air eutrophication water bodies. Thus, monitoring nitrogen during different phases production a key factor management, remote sensing based on unmanned aerial vehicles imagery has been evaluated this task. work aimed to evaluate potential visible...

10.25186/.v15i.1736 article EN Coffee Science 2020-01-01

Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest is a recurring theme on national and international environmental agenda. However, little attention has been given to its influence water erosion soil degradation. This study aimed model effect of deforestation spatial temporal variation watershed region. Therefore, we hypothesize that expansion deforestation, consequent changes land use cover, contributed increasing losses due erosion. The Xingu River was selected as area once it one most affected...

10.5039/agraria.v15i4a8500 article EN Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias - Brazilian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 2020-10-27

The complexity of hydrological processes, spatial and temporal variation all effective factors lack essential measured filed data convinced researchers to use empirical models in various scales.The IntErO model was used predict maximum outflow (Qmax), soil erosion intensity (W year) sediment yield (G one the internal sub-watersheds Shirindarreh watershed, northeast Iran.The results showed that peak flow 13.51 m 3 s -1 for a return period 100 years.As an area, upstream should be also...

10.17707/agricultforest.65.4.18 article EN cc-by The Journal Agriculture and Forestry 2019-12-15

Water erosion is the principal degradation process of tropical soils, and its effects can be measured by modeling techniques. Erosion models provide a diagnosis soil loss intensity support planning conservation practices. Models with low data requirements, such as Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) and, more recently, Potential Method (EPM), are mainly applied in Brazil. Thus, objective this work was to estimate water soil-loss rates using EPM RUSLE on subbasin, followed comparison...

10.4136/ambi-agua.2501 article EN cc-by Ambiente e Agua - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Science 2020-07-08

In recent decades, the frequency and severity of wildfires have increased, especially in Mediterranean Basin.Aside from their direct effects, accelerated soil erosion is observed fire-affected areas due to destruction vegetation.The 2021 Greece megafires were one country's major ecological disasters, destroying over 125,000 hectares forest agricultural land.The present study aims quantify effects selected wildfire events on dynamics fire season.To accomplish goals current research RUSLE...

10.17707/agricultforest.68.2.04 article EN cc-by The Journal Agriculture and Forestry 2022-06-30

ABSTRACT The use of sewage sludge as a source nutrients and organic matter for agricultural soils is well-established practice. However, few reports highlight the effect potentially toxic elements provided by wastes application on plant physiological parameters, such photosynthetic activity stomatal conductivity. We performed greenhouse experiment with maize exposed to dystrophic red Latosol amended mineral fertilizer different rates following objectives: i) assess metal uptake translocation...

10.1590/1413-7054202044029919 article EN cc-by Ciência e Agrotecnologia 2020-01-01

A erosão hídrica é a principal forma de degradação dos solos tropicais, gerando inúmeros prejuízos ambientais e socioeconômicos. As estimativas das taxas perdas solo por são importantes para avaliar do proposição medidas manejo conservacionistas. Dentre os diversos modelos, o Método Erosão Potencial se destaca pela facilidade aplicação baixo custo implementação estimar as solo. Dessa forma, objetivo trabalho foi aplicar da em uma sub-bacia hidrográfica sul Estado Minas Gerais. área estudada...

10.11606/rdg.v39i0.160233 article PT cc-by-nc-sa Geography Department University of Sao Paulo 2020-06-23

A caracterização morfométrica de bacias hidrográficas é fundamental para análises hidrológicas e ambientais. Pois, pode contribuir com políticas planejamento gerenciamento recursos naturais prevenção à enchentes inundações. Neste cenário, o trabalho analisou as características morfométricas da Bacia Hidrográfica do Alto Sapucaí, sul Estado Minas Gerais, fornecer subsídios técnicos adequado dos seus hídricos. Para tanto, foram calculados os parâmetros: densidade rios, drenagem, relação...

10.11606/eissn.2236-2878.rdg.2021.169817 article PT cc-by-nc-sa Geography Department University of Sao Paulo 2021-04-28
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