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What Does the Future Hold for Páramo Plants? A Modelling Approach
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Understanding the effects of climate change on tropicalpine biota remains a scientific challenge today. The Andean páramo is the largest and most diverse tropicalpine biogeographical region in the world, and also one of the most threatened as it is prone
Gwendolyn Peyre
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Potato cultivation and livestock effects on microorganism functional groups in soils from the neotropical high Andean Páramo [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 2020 Páramo ecosystems are of great importance because they are considered hotspots within the Tropical Andes. They are also very important for their role as producers and regulators of water processes in the Neotropic.
Lizeth Manuela Avellaneda-Torres +3 more
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The Paramo Fire Atlas: quantifying burned area and trends across the Tropical Andes
Environmental Research LettersThe paramo ecosystem is vital for biodiversity conservation and water regulation. Despite fire being a known disturbance agent in this ecosystem, little is known about the frequency and trends in these high-elevation landscapes. To address this knowledge
Laura Obando-Cabrera +4 more
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Páramo Ecosystems in Ecuador’s Southern Region: Conservation State and Restoration
Agronomy, 2020 The páramo is home to a significant proportion of global biodiversity and provides essential services for the development of life for millions of people in Ecuador.
Víctor J. García +5 more
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A systematic review of ecosystem services in the Rabanal páramo (Colombia). [PDF]
Integr Environ Assess ManagColombian páramos, strategic ecosystems of the northern Andes, provide a broad range of ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, water regulation, and soil protection.
Vergara Buitrago P +1 more
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International Microbiology, 2023 The influence of elevation on natural terrestrial ecosystems determines the arrangements of microbial communities in soils to be associated with biotic and abiotic factors.
Glever Alexander Vélez-Martínez +5 more
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Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales, 2023 Entre septiembre del 2005 y febrero del 2006, se realizó un estudio para determinar la diversidad de macroinvertebrados acuáticos en un nacimiento de río ubicado en el Páramo de Santurbán, Norte de Santander. La comunidad de macroinvertebrados encontrada
P. Castellanos, C. Serrato
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Effect of agricultural activities on surface water quality from páramo ecosystems
Environmental science and pollution research international, 2022 Páramos are high mountain ecosystems strategic for water provision in South America. Currently, páramos are under threat due to agricultural intensification that impairs surface water sources.
Daniela C Rey-Romero +2 more
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Regulatory Chill and Domestic Law: Mining in the Santurbán Páramo
World Trade Review, 2023 A persisting question about investment treaties is whether they lead to regulatory chill – the reluctance to regulate on environmental and social issues due to fear of investment claims. The literature on this topic has been predominantly focussed on how
Anna Sands
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Tropical Conservation Science, 2023 Background and Research Aims: Globally, Colombia is the country with the largest extent of Páramos (delimited in 36 complexes) and with the greatest number of amphibian species in this ecosystem.
Liliana Patricia Saboyá Acosta +1 more
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