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Diversity and conservation status of palms (Arecaceae) in two hotspots of biodiversity in Colombia and Ecuador

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 4, Page 885-901, July 2024.
Palms provide vital plant resources and ecosystem services to people across the tropics. To improve conservation guidance, a “health check” of palms in two highly threatened biodiversity hotspots in Colombia and Ecuador was undertaken. Palms are very diverse in these regions, but over one third are threatened with extinction now, especially among ...
Thomas L. P. Couvreur   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revealing hidden biodiversity: Novel insights on reptile and amphibian distribution in western Ecuador

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 6, June 2024.
We present notable distributional updates for 14 species from western Ecuador (seven amphibians and seven reptiles). Abstract We present notable distributional updates for 14 species from western Ecuador (seven amphibians and seven reptiles). Our findings include the northernmost confirmed sighting of Pristimantis kuri and the southernmost documented ...
Keyko Cruz‐García   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

COLUMNEA RANGELII (GESNERIACEAE), A NEW SPECIES FROM THE SERRANÍA DE LOS PARAGUAS IN THE COLOMBIAN ANDES

open access: yesCaldasia, 2012
A new species of Columnea belonging to the section Collandra (Gesneriaceae) from La Serranía de los Paraguas in the Department of Valle del Cauca (Cordillera Occidental), Colombia, is described and illustrated.
Amaya Marisol, Marin Oscar
doaj  

Holocene Temperature and Water Stress in the Peruvian Andes: Insights From Lake Carbonate Clumped and Triple Oxygen Isotopes

open access: yesPaleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Volume 39, Issue 5, May 2024.
Abstract Global climate during the Holocene was relatively stable compared to the late Pleistocene. However, evidence from lacustrine records in South America suggests that tropical latitudes experienced significant water balance variability during the Holocene, rather than quiescence. For example, a tight coupling between insolation and carbonate δ18O
Sarah A. Katz   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population Growth and Customary Law on Land: The Case of Cordillera Villages in the Philippines [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines how a traditional village deals with the consequences of population growth. The increase in population demands more intensive use of the land which requires the transformation of commonly-owned land into privately-owned land ...
Lorelei Crisologo-Mendoza;   +1 more
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Amphibia, Anura, Strabomantidae, Pristimantis permixtus Lynch, Ruiz-Carranza, and Ardila-Robayo, 1994: Distribution extension, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

open access: yesCheck List, 2010
Pristimantis permixtus is a moderate sized frog tipically of upper cloud forests and sub-páramo areas. Herewe provide the second record and southernmost of P.
Mendez-Narvaez, J.   +2 more
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Drymonia squamosa (Gesneriaceae), una especie nueva del Parque Nacional Natural Las Orquídeas (Antioquia, Colombia)

open access: yesCaldasia, 2015
Se describe e ilustra una especie nueva de Drymonia (Gesneriaceae) de la Cordillera Occidental de los Andes colombianos, departamento de Antioquia. La nueva especie, Drymonia squamosa, se distingue por tener los pecíolos cubiertos con escamas, el envés ...
LAURA CLAVIJO, JOHN L. CLARK
doaj   +1 more source

Slab flattening, magmatism, and surface uptlift in the Cordillera Occidental (northern Peru)

open access: yes, 2015
International audienceThe impact of subduction processes on surface uplift and relief building in the Andes is not well understood. In northern Peru, we have access to a modern flat subduction zone (3°–15°S) where both the geometry and timing of the ...
Margirier, Audrey   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Un caso potencial de depredación de puercoespín (Coendou sp.) por Ocelote (Leopardus pardalis) en La Reserva Natural La Mesenia-Paramillo, Jardín, Antioquia

open access: yesMammalogy Notes, 2017
Aquí documentamos evidencia del posible consumo de un puercoespín (Coendou sp.) por un Ocelote en un bosque montano al suroeste de Antioquia, Colombia.
Andrés Arias-Alzate   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Una nueva especie de Hyla del grupo Bogotensis (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae) de la Cordillera Oriental de Colombia Una nueva especie de Hyla del grupo Bogotensis (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae) de la Cordillera Oriental de Colombia

open access: yesCaldasia, 1991
A new species of Hyla is nomined from occidental slopes, northern Cordillera Oriental, Colombia; Hyla Iynchi differs from other hylid frogs of the H.
Ruíz Carranza Pedro M.   +1 more
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