Influence of land use on hydro-physical soil properties of Andean páramos and its effect on streamflow buffering

S Patiño, Y Hernández, C Plata, I Domínguez, M Daza… - Catena, 2021 - Elsevier
The páramos biome of the northern Andes is a collection of high-mountain tropical
grassland wetland ecosystems that provides important ecosystem services including …

Central and south america

EJ Castellanos, MF Lemos, L Astigarraga, N Chacón… - 2022 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
Central and South America (CSA) is a highly diverse region, both culturally and biologically.
It has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet (Hoorn et al., 2010; Zador et al …

New land in the Neotropics: a review of biotic community, ecosystem, and landscape transformations in the face of climate and glacier change

F Cuesta, LD Llambí, C Huggel, F Drenkhan… - Regional Environmental …, 2019 - Springer
The high tropical Andes are rapidly changing due to climate change, leading to strong biotic
community, ecosystem, and landscape transformations. While a wealth of glacier, water …

Elevation and latitude drives structure and tree species composition in Andean forests: Results from a large-scale plot network

A Malizia, C Blundo, J Carilla, O Osinaga Acosta… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Our knowledge about the structure and function of Andean forests at regional scales
remains limited. Current initiatives to study forests over continental or global scales still have …

[HTML][HTML] Distribution patterns of alpine flora for long-term monitoring of global change along a wide elevational gradient in the Western Himalayas

H Shaheen, S Aziz, S Nasar, M Waheed… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the current context of climate change, the Western Himalayas are thought to be warming
faster than the global average rate. Despite this rapid warming, our understanding of alpine …

Humboldt's Tableau Physique revisited

P Moret, P Muriel, R Jaramillo, O Dangles - Proceedings of the National …, 2019 - pnas.org
Alexander von Humboldt's Tableau Physique (1807) has been one of the most influential
diagrams in the history of environmental sciences. In particular, detailed observations of the …

Compositional shifts of alpine plant communities across the high Andes

F Cuesta, J Carilla, LD LLambí, P Muriel… - Global ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Climate change is transforming mountain summit plant communities worldwide, but we
know little about such changes in the High Andes. Understanding large‐scale patterns of …

Anthropogenic factors overrule local abiotic variables in determining non-native plant invasions in mountains

E Fuentes-Lillo, JJ Lembrechts, LA Cavieres… - Biological …, 2021 - Springer
The factors that determine patterns of non-native species richness and abundance are
context dependent in both time and space. Global change has significantly boosted plant …

Evolutionary assembly of flowering plants into sky islands

H Qian, RE Ricklefs, W Thuiller - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - nature.com
Alpine floras (plants in the vegetation belts above the climatic treelines) experience cold
climates, particularly in temperate mountains during winter, but they are generally species …

[HTML][HTML] Different environmental factors drive tree species diversity along elevation gradients in three climatic zones in Yunnan, southern China

X Song, M Cao, J Li, RL Kitching, A Nakamura… - Plant Diversity, 2021 - Elsevier
Elevational patterns of tree diversity are well studied worldwide. However, few studies have
examined how seedlings respond to elevational gradients and whether their responses vary …