Impacts of anthropogenic climate change on tropical montane forests: an appraisal of the evidence

EO Mata‐Guel, MCK Soh, CW Butler… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In spite of their small global area and restricted distributions, tropical montane forests (TMFs)
are biodiversity hotspots and important ecosystem services providers, but are also highly …

Predicting thermal adaptation by looking into populations' genomic past

AJ Cortés, F López-Hernández… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Molecular evolution offers an insightful theory to interpret the genomic consequences of
thermal adaptation to previous events of climate change beyond range shifts. However …

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 …

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 …

Scientific research in Ecuador: A bibliometric analysis

G Herrera-Franco, N Montalván-Burbano… - Publications, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ecuador has shown a growth in its scientific production since 2011, representing 85% of the
total historical production. These investigations are reflected in scientific publications, which …

Climate Vulnerability Assessment of the Espeletia Complex on Páramo Sky Islands in the Northern Andes

JB Valencia, J Mesa, JG León, S Madriñán… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Some of the largest impacts of climate change are expected in the environmentally
heterogeneous and species rich high mountain ecosystems. Among those, the Neotropical …

The need for stewardship of lands exposed by deglaciation from climate change

A Zimmer, T Beach, JA Klein… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Alpine glaciers worldwide will lose most of their volume by the end of the 21st century,
placing alpine ecosystems and human populations at risk. The new lands that emerge from …

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 …

Low availability of functional seed trait data from the tropics could negatively affect global macroecological studies, predictive models and plant conservation

AM Visscher, F Vandelook… - Annals of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Plant seeds have many traits that influence ecological functions, ex situ
conservation, restoration success and their sustainable use. Several seed traits are known …

Altitude as environmental filtering influencing phylogenetic diversity and species richness of plants in tropical mountains

CM Galván-Cisneros, PM Villa, AJP Coelho… - Journal of Mountain …, 2023 - Springer
Elucidating how multiple factors affect biodiversity and plant community assembly is a
central issue in ecology, especially in vulnerable ecosystems such as tropical mountains …