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Pool 28 along the Turure River in 2006 with Reference Line
Picture of Pool 28 taken in 2006 along the Turure River before the mountain road had been widened. One can faintly see a rocky bottom to the stream. Pool 28 is downstream of Pool 17. The bottom of the photograph is downstream. The pool contained fish of various sizes. The plants growing along the bank on the right of the photograph were clean and did not have sediment on them. The reference...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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Pool 28 along the Turure River in 2009
Picture of Pool 28 taken in 2009 along the Turure River after the mountain road had been widened. Water flows from the left to the right side of the photograph. The stream bottom is covered in sediment. Plants growing along the bank have an observable level of sediment collecting on and around them. Fish seemed to be more abundant in 2005, although small fish were still present in 2009...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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Pool 17 along the Turure River in 2009 with Reference Point
Picture of Pool 17 taken in 2009 along the Turure River after the mountain road had been widened. To get to the rocks along the far bank in 2005, one had to wade in waist-deep (about 3 feet) water. Now, one can simply walk across and only get wet shoes. The tripod in the photograph is only four inches on its side, half of which is above the water level. In 2005, the bottom of the stream was...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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Degradation of a Tropical Stream [resource group]
A series of photographs showing the widening of a road that then caused an increase in the sediment load in the streams below the road. The photographs show the road and the surrounding tropical rainforest, an example of a stream with increased sediment load, and before and after photographs of pools along the stream (with and without reference points). As of 2012, the system still had an...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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http://ecoed.esa.org/index.php?P=AdvancedSearch&Q=Y&FK=%22De...
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Map of Trinidad with Marked Locations
Three maps showing the location of Trinidad and the location of the tributary and pools included in the folder Degradation of a Tropical Stream. Blue lines represent stream path taken from topographic maps. The black line shows the location of the road. The road continues to the north and crosses over the mountain to influence the head waters of the stream photographed in the tributary...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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