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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 Facultad Nacional de Agronomía Medellín, 2008 Este estudio se realizó en el Área de Manejo Especial (AME) “Sistema de Páramos y Bosques Altoandinos del Noroccidente Medio Antioqueño”, localizada en el Departamento de Antioquia, Colombia. El AME tiene una extensión total de 34.358,74 ha.
Leodán Andrés Otaya Burbano +2 more
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Change, Collective Action, and Cultural Resilience in Páramo Management in Ecuador
Mountain Research and Development, 2019 This study examines how agricultural frontier expansion and grazing practices develop in the páramos under communal tenure in the northern Ecuadorian Andes and how rules to control them emerge within communal governance.
María López-Sandoval, Paola Maldonado
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The Impacts of Payments for Watershed Services in Ecuador: Emerging Lessons from Pimampiro and Cuenca [PDF]
, 2004 The project set out to engage stakeholders in the evaluation of this emerging "market" for watershed services and its social impact. The study consists of two documents that are separate but also complement each other.
Fernando Meneses +3 more
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ACI Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías, 2014 We describe two new species of Pristimantis from the cloud forest and paramo highlands protected by the Reserva Municipal Tinajillas-Gualaceño, province of Morona-Santiago, southeast versant of the Andes of Ecuador.
Verónica L. Urgilés +3 more
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Some interesting Orthotrichum records from Venezuela [PDF]
, 1999 Orthotrichum subulatum Mitt. and Orthotrichum diaphanum Brid. var. diaphanum are reported from the Mérida Páramo, representing the first records of these two species in Venezuela. Additionally, new records of the recently described O. tenuicaule Lewinsky
Garilleti, Ricardo +2 more
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Reheating via a generalized non-minimal coupling of curvature to matter
, 2011 In this work one shows that a generalized non-minimal coupling between geometry and matter is compatible with Starobinsky inflation and leads to a successful process of preheating, a reheating scenario based on the production of massive particles via ...
A. D. Felice +5 more
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A Novel Sampling Protocol for Fruit‐Feeding Butterflies in Grasslands and Open Habitats
Austral Ecology, Volume 51, Issue 1, January 2026.This study proposed a novel sampling protocol for fruit‐feeding butterflies in grasslands and open areas in the subtropical region. The new method involves the use of Van Someren‐Rydon bait traps placed on specific supports closer to the ground, aiming to capture the true diversity of butterflies in these habitats.
Cristiano Agra Iserhard +3 more
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Revista Ingenierías Universidad de Medellín, 2007 En el caso del Ecuador, importantes tensiones y conflictos han surgido en los últimos años por el manejo del recurso hídrico, principalmente entre centros poblados hegemónicos como Quito, con aquellas poblaciones rurales y periféricas de donde se extrae ...
María Astinza +2 more
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Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.Nectar is a highly variable, mostly unpredictable resource in tropical mountains. How do nectarivorous birds such as this male Great Sapphirewing cope? Fine‐scaled tracking of hummingbirds and flowerpiercers shows flexibility in daily movement strategies in the high Andes, possibly in response to fluctuating local conditions such as weather and ...
Cristina Rueda‐Uribe +9 more
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