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Vegetation and topographic controls on sediment deposition and storage on gully beds in a degraded mountain area
(2009-05)
Active gully systems developed on highly weathered or loose parent material are an important source of runoff and sediment production in degraded areas. However, a decrease of land pressure may lead to a return of a partial ...
Changes in floristic composition and physiognomy are decoupled along elevation gradients in central Argentina
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2017-10)
Questions: Most vegetation descriptions tacitly assume that floristic composition and physiognomy are tightly linked. However, the two vegetation properties may not respond in a similar way to environmental and disturbance ...
Impact of tussock grasses removal on soil water content dynamics of a tropical mountain hillslope
(2019)
© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Land use impacts on soil water content (SWC) are scarcely studied in mountain humid ecosystems, such as the Andean páramos, despite its influence on ecohydrological processes. Our objective ...
Going off trails: How dispersed visitor use affects alpine vegetation
(Academic Press Ltd - Elsevier Science Ltd, 2020-08)
Mountain protected areas provide a range of ecosystem services including conserving biodiversity, while often providing recreation and tourism opportunities. Unfortunately, tourists and pack animals used to transport ...
Land Surface Phenology in the Tropics: The Role of Climate and Topography in a Snow-Free Mountain
(2017-12-01)
Leaf phenology represents a major temporal component of ecosystem functioning, and understanding the drivers of seasonal variation in phenology is essential to understand plant responses to climate change. We assessed the ...
Oribatid mites and springtails from a coffee plantation in Sierra Sur, Oaxaca, Mexico.
(Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, v. 44, n. 8, p. 988-995, ago. 2009., 2014)
Vegetation recovery after fire in mountain grasslands of Argentina
(Science Press, 2020-01-29)
Fire is a natural disturbance occurring every few years in many grasslands ecosystems. However, since European colonization, fire has been highly reduced or even suppressed in Argentinean grasslands, fostering ignitable ...
Landscape integration of North Patagonian mountain lakes: a first approach using characterization of dissolved organic matter
(Wiley Publishing Asia, 2015-03)
North-western Patagonia contains a variety of glacially formed mountain lakes located at different positions from the treeline in the Andean Patagonian forest region. Water chemistry of six North Patagonian lakes located ...