The increase of soil organic matter reduces global warming, myth or reality?

The soil has lost organic matter in the past centuries. Adding organic matter to soils is one of
the management practices applied to recover the levels of soil carbon of the past and to …

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 …

The breathing of the Andean highlands: Net ecosystem exchange and evapotranspiration over the páramo of southern Ecuador

G Carrillo-Rojas, B Silva, R Rollenbeck… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Atmospheric carbon (CO 2) exchange, evapotranspiration (ET) processes, and their
interactions with climatic drivers across tropical alpine grasslands are poorly understood …

Ecohydrology and ecosystem services of a natural and an artificial bofedal wetland in the central Andes

MJ Monge-Salazar, C Tovar… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
High-altitude wetlands of the Central Andes, locally known as bofedales, provide important
ecosystem services, particularly carbon storage, forage provisioning, and water regulation …

Improving the remote estimation of soil organic carbon in complex ecosystems with Sentinel-2 and GIS using Gaussian processes regression

JE Ayala Izurieta, CA Jara Santillán, CO Márquez… - Plant and soil, 2022 - Springer
Background and aims The quantitative retrieval of soil organic carbon (SOC) storage,
particularly for soils with a large potential for carbon sequestration, is of global interest due …

[HTML][HTML] The Ecuadorian Paramo in danger: What we know and what might be learned from northern wetlands.

SA Brück, BDM Torres, MLT de Moraes - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Paramo is a heterogeneous array of High Andean Mountain ecosystems above the tree
line at elevations between 2800 and 5000 meters. It unites characteristics of mountain …

Mountain wetland soil carbon stocks of Huascarán National Park, Peru

RA Chimner, SC Resh, JA Hribljan… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Although wetlands contain a disproportionately high amount of earth's total soil carbon,
many regions are still poorly mapped and with unquantified carbon stocks. The tropical …

Multidate, multisensor remote sensing reveals high density of carbon‐rich mountain peatlands in the páramo of Ecuador

JA Hribljan, E Suarez… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical peatlands store a significant portion of the global soil carbon (C) pool. However,
tropical mountain peatlands contain extensive peat soils that have yet to be mapped or …

Frontiers in páramo water resources research: A multidisciplinary assessment

GM Mosquera, R Hofstede, LL Bremer… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Interdisciplinary knowledge is necessary to achieve sustainable management of natural
resources. However, research is still often developed in an exclusively disciplinary manner …

[HTML][HTML] Carbono almacenado en páramo andino

AE Castañeda-Martín, CR Montes-Pulido - Entramado, 2017 - scielo.org.co
RESUMEN A pesar de la importancia del ecosistema de páramo en el ciclo global de
carbono no se dispone de una síntesis que permita diferenciar si es la biomasa vegetal o el …