Vol. 70 No. 1 (2016)

Articles

• Environmental change and its impacts in a biodiversity hotspot of the south Ecuadorian Andes – monitoring and mitigation strategies

  Jörg Bendix, Erwin Beck

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• Canopy evapotranspiration, leaf transpiration and water use efficiency of an Andean pasture in SE-Ecuador – a case study

  Brenner Silva, Simone Strobl, Erwin Beck, Jörg Bendix

  5-18

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• Assessing the importance of topographic variables for the spatial distribution of tree species in a tropical mountain forest

  Daniel Kübler, Patrick Hildebrandt, Sven Günter, Bernd Stimm, Michael Weber, Reinhard Mosandl, Johana Muñoz, Omar Cabrera, Nikolay Aguirre, Jörg Zeilinger, Brenner Silva

  19-47

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• Banning goats could exacerbate deforestation of the Ecuadorian dry forest – How the effectiveness of conservation payments is influenced by productive use options

  W. Santiago Ochoa M., Carola Paul, Luz María Castro, Liz Valle, Thomas Knoke

  49-67

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• Hydro-climatic variability in southern Ecuador reflected by tree-ring oxygen isotopes

  Franziska Volland, Darwin Pucha, Achim Bräuning

  69-82

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• Phylogenetic niche conservatism does not explain elevational patterns of species richness, phylodiversity and family age of tree assemblages in Andean rainforest

  Yvonne Tiede, Jürgen Honmeier, Nixon Cumbicus, Jaime Peña, Jörg Albrecht, Birgit Ziegenhagen, Jörg Bendix, Roland Brandl, Nina Farwig

  83-106

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