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2019
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Tropical monodominant forest resilience to climate change in Central Africa: A Gilbertiodendron dewevrei forest pollen record over the past 2,700 years
Question The existence of monodominant forest in highly diverse tropical rainforest has been the subject of much debate. One hypothesis suggests that the combination of advantageous traits and long periods of low disturbance is key for this forest's persistence. Here we ask whether there is evidence for the long-term presence... -
2019
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Potential adaptive strategies for 29 sub-Saharan crops under future climate change
Climate change is expected to severely impact cultivated plants and consequently human livelihoods, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Increasing agricultural plant diversity (agrobiodiversity) could overcome this global challenge given more information on the climatic tolerance of crops and their wild relatives. Using >200,000 worldwide occurrence records for 29 major crops... -
2020
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Plant dispersal strategies of high tropical alpine communities across the Andes
Dispersal is a key ecological process that influences plant community assembly. Therefore, understanding whether dispersal strategies are associated with climate is of utmost importance, particularly in areas greatly exposed to climate change. We examined alpine plant communities located in the mountain summits of the tropical Andes across a 4000 km... -
2021
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Seeing through the clouds - Mapping desert fog oasis ecosystems using 20 years of MODIS imagery over Peru and Chile.
Moat, Justin ; Orellana-Garcia, Alfonso ; Tovar, Carolina ; Arakaki, Mónica ; Arana, César …
Tillandsia, Oasis de Niebla, Remote sensing, Google Earth Engine, Atacama, and Lomas
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2021
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Ecosystem services show variable responses to future climate conditions in the Colombian páramos.
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2021
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Colombia’s bioregions as a source of useful plants.
The aim of our study was to assess the importance of different Colombian bioregions in terms of the supply of useful plant species and the quality of the available distribution data. We assembled a dataset of georeferenced collection localities of all vascular plants of Colombia available from global and local... -
2021
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Prioritising crop wild relatives to enhance agricultural resilience in sub‐Saharan Africa under climate change.
Satori, David ; Tovar, Carolina ; Faruk, Aisyah ; Hammond Hunt, Eleanor ; Muller, Gemma …
Food security , Nature-based solutions, Conservation, Seed banks, Functional traits , and Plant pre-breeding
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2022
Journal article
Understanding climate change impacts on biome and plant distributions in the Andes: Challenges and opportunities.
Tovar, Carolina ; Carril, Andrea F. ; Gutiérrez, Alvaro G. ; Ahrends, Antje ; Fita, Lluis …
Plant dynamics, Climate change, Plant biodiversity, Species distribution modelling, and Andes
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2022
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The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management.
Risk management has reduced vulnerability to floods and droughts globally , yet their impacts are still increasing . An improved understanding of the causes of changing impacts is therefore needed, but has been hampered by a lack of empirical data . On the basis of a global dataset of 45...Kreibich, Heidi ; Van Loon, Anne F. ; Schröter, Kai ; Ward, Philip J. ; Mazzoleni, Maurizio …
Floods, Droughts, Natural Hazards, Hydrology, and Risk management