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 …

A concerted research effort to advance the hydrological understanding of tropical páramos

A Correa, BF Ochoa‐Tocachi, C Birkel… - Hydrological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Páramos, a neotropical alpine grassland‐peatland biome of the northern Andes and Central
America, play an essential role in regional and global cycles of water, carbon, and nutrients …

[HTML][HTML] Flash-flood forecasting in an Andean mountain catchment—development of a step-wise methodology based on the random forest algorithm

P Muñoz, J Orellana-Alvear, P Willems, R Célleri - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
Flash-flood forecasting has emerged worldwide due to the catastrophic socio-economic
impacts this hazard might cause and the expected increase of its frequency in the future. In …

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 …

The role of vegetation, soils, and precipitation on water storage and hydrological services in Andean Páramo catchments

PX Lazo, GM Mosquera, JJ McDonnell, P Crespo - Journal of Hydrology, 2019 - Elsevier
Understanding how tropical montane catchments store and release water, and the resulting
water ecosystem services they provide is crucial for improving water resource management …

Moisture transport and seasonal variations in the stable isotopic composition of rainfall in Central American and Andean Páramo during El Niño conditions (2015 …

G Esquivel‐Hernández, GM Mosquera… - Hydrological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
High‐elevation tropical grassland systems, called Páramo, provide essential ecosystem
services such as water storage and supply for surrounding and lowland areas. Páramo …

Temporal dynamics in dominant runoff sources and flow paths in the A ndean P áramo

A Correa, D Windhorst, D Tetzlaff… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The relative importance of catchment's water provenance and flow paths varies in space and
time, complicating the conceptualization of the rainfall‐runoff responses. We assessed the …

Seasonal recharge of spring and stream waters in a karst catchment revealed by isotopic and hydrochemical analyses

F Wang, H Chen, J Lian, Z Fu, Y Nie - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Quantifying and understanding recharge behavior of aquifers in complex hydrogeological
systems is challenging, which limits our ability to manage water resources in karstic areas. In …

Progress in understanding the hydrology of high-elevation Andean grasslands under changing land use

GM Mosquera, F Marin, M Stern, V Bonnesoeur… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
High-elevation grasslands worldwide provide essential hydrological services including
water provision, flow regulation, and erosion control. Despite their importance, hydrological …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrometeorological factors controlling the stable isotopic composition of precipitation in the highlands of south Ecuador

DX Zhiña, GM Mosquera… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Knowledge about precipitation generation remains limited in the tropical Andes due
to the lack of water stable isotope (WSI) data. Therefore, we investigated the key factors …