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 …

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 …

Differences in soil water storage, consumption, and use efficiency of typical vegetation types and their responses to precipitation in the Loess Plateau, China

J Chen, Y Chen, K Wang, G Wang, J Wu… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
After massive afforestation, the Loess Plateau is facing the severe challenge of water
shortages. Water use efficiency (WUE) is an important indicator of plant drought resistance …

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 …

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 …

The case for an open water balance: Re‐envisioning network design and data analysis for a complex, uncertain world

SK Kampf, SJ Burges, JC Hammond… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The discipline of hydrology has long focused on quantifying the water balance, which is
frequently used to estimate unknown water fluxes or stores. While technologies for …

A simple mixing model using electrical conductivity yields robust hydrograph separation in a tropical montane catchment

PX Lazo, GM Mosquera, I Cárdenas, C Segura… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrograph separation assessment is crucial to understand stormflow generation at
catchments worldwide. Tracer-based methods provide robust estimations of event (or new) …

Seasonal water storage and release dynamics of bofedal wetlands in the Central Andes

AC Ross, MM Mendoza, F Drenkhan… - Hydrological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical high‐Andean wetlands, locally known as 'bofedales', are key ecosystems
sustaining biodiversity, carbon sequestration, water provision and livestock farming …

Factors dominating the horizontal and vertical variability of soil water vary with climate and plant type in loess deposits

Y Huang, B Li, A Biswas, Z Li - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Identifying the variability and predominant factors affecting soil water (SW) is essential in
regions with thick vadose zones and deep-rooted plants. This information is needed to …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of low-severity fire on soil physico-chemical properties in an Andean Páramo in Southern Ecuador

V Carrión-Paladines, A Fries, MB Hinojosa, A Oña… - Fire, 2023 - mdpi.com
The high Andean páramos (AnP) are unique ecosystems that harbor high biodiversity and
provide important ecosystem services, such as water supply and regulation, as well as …