A review of groundwater in high mountain environments

LD Somers, JM McKenzie - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mountain water resources are of particular importance for downstream populations but are
threatened by decreasing water storage in snowpack and glaciers. Groundwater …

High rates of rock organic carbon oxidation sustained as Andean sediment transits the Amazon foreland-floodplain

M Dellinger, RG Hilton, JJ Baronas… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The oxidation of organic carbon contained within sedimentary rocks (“petrogenic” carbon, or
hereafter OCpetro) emits nearly as much CO2 as is released by volcanism, thereby playing …

Ecohydrological drivers of Neotropical vegetation in montane ecosystems

LMT Aparecido, GS Teodoro, G Mosquera… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Montane ecosystems are known for their high numbers of endemic species, unique climate
conditions, and wide variety of ecosystem services such as water supply and carbon …

The variation of productivity and its allocation along a tropical elevation gradient: a whole carbon budget perspective

Y Malhi, CAJ Girardin, GR Goldsmith… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Why do forest productivity and biomass decline with elevation? To address this question,
research to date generally has focused on correlative approaches describing changes in …

The acid and alkalinity budgets of weathering in the Andes–Amazon system: Insights into the erosional control of global biogeochemical cycles

MA Torres, AJ West, KE Clark, G Paris… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
The correlation between chemical weathering fluxes and denudation rates suggests that
tectonic activity can force variations in atmospheric pCO 2 by modulating weathering fluxes …

A novel high-resolution gridded precipitation dataset for Peruvian and Ecuadorian watersheds: Development and hydrological evaluation

CA Fernandez-Palomino… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
A novel approach for estimating precipitation patterns is developed here and applied to
generate a new hydrologically corrected daily precipitation dataset, called RAIN4PE (Rain …

Plant leaf wax biomarkers capture gradients in hydrogen isotopes of precipitation from the Andes and Amazon

SJ Feakins, LP Bentley, N Salinas, A Shenkin… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
Plant leaf waxes have been found to record the hydrogen isotopic composition of
precipitation and are thus used to reconstruct past climate. To assess how faithfully they …

Geomorphic regime modulates hydrologic control of chemical weathering in the Andes–Amazon

MA Torres, AJ West, KE Clark - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
The interplay between the hydrologic processes that supply, store, and route water in
catchment systems and the chemical weathering reactions that add and remove solutes acts …

Actual evapotranspiration in the high Andean grasslands: A comparison of measurement and estimation methods

A Ochoa-Sánchez, P Crespo, G Carrillo-Rojas… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Actual evapotranspiration (ETa) explains the exchange of water and energy between soil,
land surface, and atmosphere. Despite its importance, it remains difficult to measure directly …

Towards a more consistent eco-hydrological modelling through multi-objective calibration: a case study in the Andean Vilcanota River basin, Peru

CA Fernandez-Palomino, FF Hattermann… - Hydrological …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Most hydrological studies rely on a model calibrated using discharge alone. However,
judging the model reliability based on such calibration is problematic, as it does not …