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Pinguicula rosmarieae Casper, Bussmann & T.Henning (Lentibulariaceae), a new butterwort from the Amotape-Huancabamba Zone (northern Peru) [PDF]
, 2020 The insectivorous genus Pinguicula occurs along the whole Andean mountain chain from Colombia-Venezuela in the north to Tierra del Fuego in the south with a short interruption in the Peruvian-Chilean desert range.
Bussmann, Rainer W. +2 more
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Climate Change in the High Andes:implications and adaptation strategies for small-scale farmers [PDF]
, 2010 : Global climate change represents a major threat to sustainable farming in the Andes. Farmers have used local ecological knowledge and intricate production systems to cope, adapt and reorganize to meet climate uncertainty and risk, which have always ...
Dangles, O. +7 more
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Revista Kawsaypacha, 2023 El páramo es un ecosistema cuya importancia radica en la conservación y acumulación de agua y carbono. Su deterioro repercute en el aumento de emisiones y disminuye la recarga de acuíferos.
Ana Sabogal-Dunin-Borkowski
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Land‐Use and Land‐Cover Change in the Páramo of South‐Central Ecuador, 1979–2014
Land, 2017 Land use and land cover were mapped between 3500 and 5000 meters above sea level m.a.s.l. in the Río Chambo basin in south-central Ecuador from Landsat MSS, TM, ETM and OLI imagery acquired between 1979 and 2014.
Cristina Ross +2 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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Senecio alatopetiolatus (Compositae), una nueva cita para la flora colombiana
Collectanea Botanica, 2021 Senecio alatopetiolatus se cita por primera vez en Colombia. Se incluye una discusión de su variabilidad morfológica y se aportan fotografías de plantas en su hábitat.
Joel Calvo, Fabio Ávila
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El páramo: aula abierta para el aprendizaje de las ciencias naturales
Educación y Ciencia, 2013 En Suramérica, entidades y agrupaciones de personas han buscado mejorar las condiciones ambientales y sociales de los ecosistemas de páramos a partir del Proyecto “Páramo Andino”, mediante la construcción de alianzas a lo largo del corredor ecológico ...
Inés Andrea Sanabria Totaitive +1 more
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Effects of land use on soil CO2 flux in the Paramo de Guerrero, Colombia
Agronomía Colombiana, 2016 The Andean paramo is an important global carbon sink and has a fundamental ecological function of capture, regulation and supply of water resources. The soil CO2 efflux is a natural process through which the carbon is released into the atmosphere by ...
Diego Peña-Quemba +2 more
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Metabolites, 2021 The Andean mountains are ‘center stage’ to some of the most spectacular examples of plant diversifications, where geographic isolation and past climatic fluctuations have played a major role.
Guillermo F. Padilla-González +2 more
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Revista de Teledetección, 2023 En este trabajo se implementó una metodología semiautomática para la delimitación de áreas quemadas en la provincia de Chimborazo en Ecuador, durante el periodo 2018-2021 utilizando la base de datos de incendios forestales suministrada por el Programa ...
César Cisneros-Vaca +3 more
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