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Extreme Orographic Rainfall in the Eastern Andes Tied to Cold Air Intrusions
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2019 Long-duration localized heavy rainfall (> 6 h, < 10 km2) was recorded by raingauges on October 4, 2013 at mid-elevations (~ 1, 500 m) in the Peruvian Andes, which was not apparent in infrared or microwave measurements from either geostationary or ...
Masih Eghdami, Ana P. Barros
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European Journal of Remote Sensing, 2019 Monitoring long-term forest dynamics is essential for assessing human-induced land-cover changes, and related studies are often based on the multi-decadal Landsat archive.
Fabián Santos +2 more
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Parasites & Vectors, 2021 Background Dengue, Zika and chikungunya are arboviruses of significant public health importance that are transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes.
María C. Carrasquilla +10 more
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High Impact Weather Events in the Andes
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 Owing to the extraordinary latitudinal extent, a strong orographic variability with very high mountain tops, and the presence of deep valleys and steep slopes, the Andes and the population of the region are highly prone and vulnerable to the impacts of a
Germán Poveda +6 more
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River connectivity and climate behind the long‐term evolution of tropical American floodplain lakes
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 This study presents the long‐term evolution of two floodplains lakes (San Juana and Barbacoas) of the Magdalena River in Colombia with varying degree of connectivity to the River and with different responses to climate events (i.e., extreme floods and ...
Laura Lopera‐Congote +4 more
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Migration and forests in the Peruvian Amazon: a review [PDF]
, 2019 This paper reviews the literature on the links between migration and forests in the Peruvian Amazon. It highlights not only the complexity of the migrant–forest interface in Peru but also the relative lack of research on these dynamics.
Cronkleton, Peter, Menton, Mary
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Millennial-scale vegetation changes in the tropical Andes using ecological grouping and ordination methods [PDF]
Climate of the Past, 2016 We compare eight pollen records reflecting climatic and environmental change from northern and southern sites in the tropical Andes. Our analysis focuses on the last 30 000 years, with particular emphasis on the Pleistocene to Holocene transition.
D. H. Urrego +10 more
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An annotated checklist of freshwater copepoda (crustacea, hexanauplia) from continental Ecuador and the Galapagos archipelago [PDF]
, 2019 An annotated checklist of the free-living freshwater Copepoda recorded in different regions in Ecuador (including the Amazon, the Andes, the coastal region, and the Galapagos Islands) is here provided.
Corgosinho P. H. C. +6 more
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A Conceptual Model for Rehabilitation of Puna Grassland Social–Ecological Systems
Mountain Research and Development, 2023 The impacts of both climate change and socioeconomic processes are driving the degradation of mountains and the ecological services they provide worldwide. In the tropical Andes, compounding glacier retreat, altered hydrological and precipitation regimes
Angela Mendoza-Ato +3 more
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Shifts in leaf litter breakdown along a forestpastureurban gradient in Andean streams [PDF]
, 2016 Tropical montane ecosystems of the Andes are critically threatened by a rapid land-use change which can potentially affect stream variables, aquatic communities, and ecosystem processes such as leaf litter breakdown.
Breuer, Lutz +5 more
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