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Intersections of Conservation, Cattle, and Culture in Ecuador's Páramo Grasslands
Mountain Research and Development, 2021 Páramo is a biodiverse, high-elevation humid grassland ecosystem mainly found in the northern Andes. Since Spanish colonization, páramo lands in Ecuador have been used locally for grazing cattle that roam freely, known as ganado bravo.
Audrey Joslin
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Revista Peruana de Biología, 2023 The páramo ecosystem is a significant centre of Andean bird diversity with high concentrations of threatened species. The Macizo del Cajas Biosphere Reserve’s páramos are a district of the biogeographic páramo province of northern Andes and are therefore
Pedro X. Astudillo +4 more
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Adaptation and convergent evolution within the Jamesonia-Eriosorus complex in high-elevation biodiverse Andean hotspots. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The recent uplift of the tropical Andes (since the late Pliocene or early Pleistocene) provided extensive ecological opportunity for evolutionary radiations.
Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo +1 more
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Eriope barrinhae (Lamiaceae, Hyptidinae), a new montane species from northern Minas Gerais, Brazil
Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.In northern Minas Gerais, in the Monte Azul region, the Pico da Formosa mountain remains poorly explored botanically despite recent discoveries of new taxa. During fieldwork at the summit of this mountain, we discovered a distinctive population of Eriope that differs from all known species by a unique combination of morphological characters.
Danilo Alvarenga Zavatin +4 more
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Ecology and EvolutionAutomated radio telemetry systems (ARTS) have the potential to revolutionise our understanding of animal movement by providing a near‐continuous record of individual locations in the wild.
Cristina Rueda‐Uribe +7 more
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Conservation effectiveness of seven biosphere reserves in the Western Amazon
Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.As deforestation continues to threaten the Amazon, assessing the effectiveness of area‐based conservation strategies is critical for achieving global biodiversity targets. Using matching methods, we evaluated deforestation avoidance in seven biosphere reserves in the Western Amazon and found that most have reduced forest loss, particularly in buffer ...
Amaia Gonzaga Roa +6 more
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Impacts of pine plantations on carbon stocks of páramo sites in southern Ecuador
Carbon Balance and Management, 2021 Background Since the 1990’s, afforestation programs in the páramo have been implemented to offset carbon emissions through carbon sequestration, mainly using pine plantations.
Carlos Quiroz Dahik +6 more
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International Journal of Laboratory Hematology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Fully automated thrombin generation (TG) assays facilitate the transition from research to clinical application. We conducted a multicenter inter‐laboratory study using the ST Genesia analyzer to evaluate assay performance and establish reference intervals in healthy adults from Spain and Portugal.
Diego Velasco‐Rodríguez +21 more
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Social Technology for the Protection of the Páramo in the Central Andes of Ecuador
Mountain Research and Development, 2023 This study examined how the application of a concrete series of activities to protect the páramo in the central Andes of Ecuador can be compared with social technology.
María Cristina Torres +3 more
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New Phytologist, EarlyView.Hummingbird pollination is a hallmark of American plant diversity and has long been thought to evolve in tropical mountains due to declining bee activity. Using sister species of Costus specialized on bees (C. kuntzei) and hummingbirds (C. wilsonii), we show that this shift is not driven by reduced bee visitation with elevation, but by greater ...
Pedro Juárez +7 more
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