Ecosystem services research in mountainous regions: A systematic literature review on current knowledge and research gaps

W Mengist, T Soromessa, G Legese - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Mountain ecosystem services (MES) can provide a wide range of benefits for human well-
being, including provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural services. This systematic …

Numerical modeling techniques for flood analysis

MT Anees, K Abdullah, MNM Nawawi… - Journal of African Earth …, 2016 - Elsevier
Topographic and climatic changes are the main causes of abrupt flooding in tropical areas. It
is the need to find out exact causes and effects of these changes. Numerical modeling …

Effects of climate, land cover and topography on soil erosion risk in a semiarid basin of the Andes

PA Ochoa, A Fries, D Mejía, JI Burneo, JD Ruíz-Sinoga… - Catena, 2016 - Elsevier
Understanding soil erosion processes in the Ecuadorian Andes with a tropical wet-dry
climate and a variable topography, is fundamental for research on agriculture sustainable …

Spatial estimation of soil erosion risk by land‐cover change in the Andes of southern Ecuador

P Ochoa‐Cueva, A Fries, P Montesinos… - Land degradation & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Ecuador has the highest deforestation rate in South America, causing large‐scale soil
erosion. Inter‐Andean watersheds are especially affected by a rapid increase of the …

[HTML][HTML] Afforestation or intense pasturing improve the ecological and economic value of abandoned tropical farmlands

T Knoke, J Bendix, P Pohle, U Hamer… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Increasing demands for livelihood resources in tropical rural areas have led to progressive
clearing of biodiverse natural forests. Restoration of abandoned farmlands could counter …

Functional and phylogenetic diversity of bird assemblages are filtered by different biotic factors on tropical mountains

DM Hanz, K Böhning‐Gaese, SW Ferger… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim It is not yet clear whether similar mechanisms influence the assembly of ecological
communities across different continents. Here, we investigated the functional and …

AGB estimation in a tropical mountain forest (TMF) by means of RGB and multispectral images using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

V González-Jaramillo, A Fries, J Bendix - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
The present investigation evaluates the accuracy of estimating above-ground biomass
(AGB) by means of two different sensors installed onboard an unmanned aerial vehicle …

Constructing air temperature and relative humidity-based hourly thermal comfort dataset for a high-density city using machine learning

G Chen, J Hua, Y Shi, C Ren - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
Global warming causes new challenges for urban citizens and metropolitan governments in
adapting to the changing thermal environment. However, fine-scale spatiotemporal mapping …

Biodiversity and ecosystem functions depend on environmental conditions and resources rather than the geodiversity of a tropical biodiversity hotspot

CIB Wallis, YC Tiede, E Beck, K Böhning-Gaese… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Biodiversity and ecosystem functions are highly threatened by global change. It has been
proposed that geodiversity can be used as an easy-to-measure surrogate of biodiversity to …

Water balance and soil moisture deficit of different vegetation units under semiarid conditions in the andes of southern Ecuador

A Fries, K Silva, F Pucha-Cofrep, F Oñate-Valdivieso… - Climate, 2020 - mdpi.com
Water availability in semiarid regions is endangered, which is not only due to changing
climate conditions, but also to anthropogenic land use changes. The present study analyzed …