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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
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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
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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
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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
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Population Growth and Customary Law on Land: The Case of Cordillera Villages in the Philippines [PDF]
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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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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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
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Slab flattening, magmatism, and surface uptlift in the Cordillera Occidental (northern Peru)
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
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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
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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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