Ecuador belongs to the megadiverse countries of the world. However, the high diversity in
species, ecosystems and their services are under threat by land use changes, invasive …

Highlights•The world's mountains host immense biodiversity and hundreds of millions of
people.•Mountains provide ecosystem services for billions of people, also in the …

Upstream range shifts of freshwater fishes have been documented in recent years due to
ongoing climate change. River fragmentation by dams, presenting physical barriers, can …

Ecuador has among the world's highest biodiversity, despite being a tiny fraction of the
world's land area. The threat of extinction for some of this biodiversity has dramatically …

Freshwater fish communities in Ecuador exhibit some of the highest levels of diversity and
endemism in the Neotropics. Unfortunately, aquatic ecosystems in the country are under …

El estudio y conocimiento de los procesos de variabilidad climática y cambio climático son
un reto para la planificación local y el desarrollo sustentable de Ecuador. También …

Climatic changes threaten the diverse and highly endemic páramo flora of the equatorial
Andes with species loss and reduction of plant community diversity. Edward Whymper's …

Future climate change will result in profound shifts in the distribution and abundance of
biodiversity in the Tropical Andes, and poses a challenge to contemporary conservation …

The expected changes to the environmental conditions have concerned the scientific
community over the last few decades. A rise in the mean temperature and a variation in …

Climate and land-use change, raise significant threats to biodiversity, affecting species
ranges worldwide. Both factors operate on different scales, so including spatial traits that …