Aim Humid tropical alpine environments are crucial ecosystems that sustain biodiversity,
biological processes, carbon storage and surface water provision. They are identified as one …

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 …

The main objective of this study is to obtain a better understanding of the spatial and
temporal variability and trends of rainfall and river flow in the Cobres River basin, southern …

Abstract Changes in land use and land cover are major drivers of hydrological alteration in
the tropical Andes. However, quantifying their impacts is fraught with difficulties because of …

Climate change is expected to have a large impact on water resources worldwide. A major
problem in assessing the potential impact of a changing climate on these resources is the …

Over the last decades, the Andean highlands of Ecuador have been characterised by
intense afforestation efforts, in order to increase the economic return of less viable …

This study presents a method to identify and rank potential sites for soil and water
conservation techniques. The method takes into account environmental site assessment …

This article highlights the economic and ecological value of the water resource systems of
Ecuador's páramo and montane forest region and gives a description, based on a survey of …

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 …

In this study, we analyzed the influence of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the
spatio-temporal variability of droughts in Ecuador for a 48-year period (1965–2012) …