Impacts Of Forestation On Water And Soils In The Andes

Author : Bonnesoeur, V.,Locatelli, B.,Ochoa-Tocachi, B.F.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Impacts of forestation on water and soils in the Andes by Bonnesoeur, V.,Locatelli, B.,Ochoa-Tocachi, B.F. Pdf

Key messages This brief summarizes the findings of a systematic review on the impacts of forestation on water and soils in the Andes (detailed in Bonnesoeur et al., 2018).Exotic tree plantations and, to a lesser extent, nativ

Author : Randall W. Myster
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030573447

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The Andean Cloud Forest by Randall W. Myster Pdf

A book focused solely on Andean Cloud Forests (ACF) has never been published. ACF are high biodiversity ecosystems in the Neotropics with a large proportion of endemic species, and are important for the hydrology of entire regions. They provide water for large parts of the Amazon basin, for example. Here I take advantage of my many years working in ACF in Ecuador, to edit this book that contains the following sections: (1) ACF over space and time, (2) Hydrology, (3) Light and the Carbon cycle, (4) Soil, litter, fungi and nutrient cycling, (5) Plants, (6) Animals, and (7) Human impacts and management. Under this premise, international experts contributed chapters that consist of reviews of what is known about their topic, of what research they have done, and of what needs to be done in the future. This work is suitable for graduate students, professors, scientists, and researcher-oriented managers.

Author : Alfonso Fernandez,Michel Baraer,Bryan G. Mark
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889667741

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Connecting Mountain Hydroclimate Through the American Cordilleras by Alfonso Fernandez,Michel Baraer,Bryan G. Mark Pdf

Author : Mark A. Fonstad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351658003

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Mountains: Physical, Human-Environmental, and Sociocultural Dynamics by Mark A. Fonstad Pdf

Mountains have captured the interests and passions of people for thousands of years. Today, millions of people live within mountain regions, and mountain regions are often areas of accelerated environmental change. This edited volume highlights new understanding of mountain environments and mountain peoples around the world. The understanding of mountain environments and peoples has been a focus of individual researchers for centuries; more recently the interest in mountain regions among researchers has been growing rapidly. The articles contained within are from a wide spectrum of researchers from different parts of the world who address physical, political, theoretical, social, empirical, environmental, methodological, and economic issues focused on the geography of mountains and their inhabitants. The articles in this special issue are organized into three themed sections with very loose boundaries between themes: (1) physical dynamics of mountain environments, (2) coupled human–physical dynamics, and (3) sociocultural dynamics in mountain regions. This book was first published as a special issue of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

Author : García Chevesich, Pablo,Neary, Daniel G.,Scott, David F.,Benyon, Richard G.,Reyna, Teresa
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Forest management
ISBN : 9789231002168

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Forest management and the impact on water resources by García Chevesich, Pablo,Neary, Daniel G.,Scott, David F.,Benyon, Richard G.,Reyna, Teresa Pdf

Trees have been around for more than 370 million years, and today there are about 80 thousand species of them, occupying 3.5 billion hectares worldwide, including 250 million ha of commercial plantations. While forests can provide tremendous environmental, social, and economic benefits to nations, they also affect the hydrologic cycle in different ways. As the demand for water grows and local precipitation patterns change due to global warming, plantation forestry has encountered an increasing number of water-related conflicts worldwide. This document provides a country-by-country summary of the current state of knowledge on the relationship between forest management and water resources. Based on available research publications, the Editor-in-Chief of this document contacted local scientists from countries where the impact of forest management on water resources is an issue, inviting them to submit a chapter.

Author : Gitz, V.,Place, F.,Koziell, E.,Pingault, N.,van Noordwijk, M.,Meybeck, A.,Minang, P.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A joint stocktaking of CGIAR work on forest and landscape restoration by Gitz, V.,Place, F.,Koziell, E.,Pingault, N.,van Noordwijk, M.,Meybeck, A.,Minang, P. Pdf

Despite the high level of political engagement and the wide range of organizations involved in restoration projects from local to global levels, beyond some success stories, restoration is not happening at scale. To address this issue, three CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs) – Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA); Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM) and Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) – decided to bring together their expertise in a joint stocktaking of CGIAR work on restoration. This publication illustrates with concrete examples the powerful contribution of forest and landscape restoration to the achievement of most, if not all the 17 sustainable development goals. It can be used to support the design of future restoration activities, programs and projects. We hope that this document will help upscale restoration efforts and deliver enhanced impact from our CGIAR research.

Author : Jürgen Homeier,Selene Báez,Dietrich Hertel,Christoph Leuschner
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9782889452279

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Tropical Forest Ecosystem Responses to Increasing Nutrient Availability by Jürgen Homeier,Selene Báez,Dietrich Hertel,Christoph Leuschner Pdf

Deforestation and land use change have led to a strong reduction of tropical forest cover during the last decades. Climate change will amplify the pressure to the remaining refuges in the next years. In addition, tropical regions are facing increasing atmospheric inputs of nutrients, which will have unknown consequences for the structure and functioning of these systems, no matter if they are within protected areas or not. Even remote areas are expected to receive rising amounts of nutrients. The effects of higher rates of atmospheric nutrient deposition on the biological diversity and ecosystem functioning of tropical ecosystems are poorly understood and our knowledge of nutrient fluxes and nutrient limitation in tropical forest ecosystems is still limited. Yet, it will be of paramount importance to know the effects of increased nutrient availability to conserve these ecosystems with their biological and functional diversity. During the last years, research efforts have more and more focused on the understanding of the role of nutrients in tropical ecosystems and several coordinated projects have been established that study the effects of experimental nutrient addition. This Research Topic combines results from experiments and from observational studies with the aim to review and conclude on our current knowledge on the role of additional nutrients in ecosystems.

Author : Dean Jacobsen,Olivier Dangles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198736868

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Ecology of High Altitude Waters by Dean Jacobsen,Olivier Dangles Pdf

Truly high altitude aquatic ecosystems are found primarily at lower latitudes: vast regions in the tropical part of the Andes, the Himalayas and Tibet, considerable areas in East Africa, and minor zones of Oceania. However, despite their abundance in these regions, their biology and ecology has never been summarized in detail. A current synthesis of the topic is therefore timely. High altitude waters are ideal systems with which to address a broad range of key and topical themes in ecology, both at the regional and global scales. From specific functional adaptations of aquatic species to harsh environmental conditions through to global diversity patterns along altitudinal gradients and extinction risks of mountain populations due to vanishing glaciers, ecological patterns and processes found in high altitude waters are both diverse and singular. Although poorly considered in classical textbooks of ecology and limnology, high altitude waters have much to offer existing (aquatic) ecological theories and applications. These often threatened and exploited habitats are also ideal for studying the intimate interactions between social and ecological systems that characterize the majority of ecosystems in the Anthropocene.

Author : Diego A. Rivera,Alex Godoy-Faundez,Mario Lillo Saavedra
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351652049

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Andean Hydrology by Diego A. Rivera,Alex Godoy-Faundez,Mario Lillo Saavedra Pdf

This book describes the ecosystem of the Andean watersheds, covering the Californian valley, tropical Andes, and southern Andes. Case studies of the new methods and techniques used for hydrological research in the Andes are provided, and sustainability issues pertaining to Andean water resources are discussed in the context of climate change, social and economic issues, and public policy. Furthermore, the impact of economic development on the Andean ecosystem, specifically the effect on the water cycle and the water-energy-food nexus, are examined.

Author : Delphis F. Levia,Darryl E. Carlyle-Moses,Shin'ichi Iida,Beate Michalzik,Kazuki Nanko,Alexander Tischer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030260866

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Forest-Water Interactions by Delphis F. Levia,Darryl E. Carlyle-Moses,Shin'ichi Iida,Beate Michalzik,Kazuki Nanko,Alexander Tischer Pdf

The United Nations has declared 2018-2028 as the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development. This is a timely designation. In an increasingly thirsty world, the subject of forest-water interactions is of critical importance to the achievement of sustainability goals. The central underlying tenet of this book is that the hydrologic community can conduct better science and make a more meaningful impact to the world’s water crisis if scientists are: (1) better equipped to utilize new methods and harness big data from either or both high-frequency sensors and long-term research watersheds; and (2) aware of new developments in our process-based understanding of the hydrological cycle in both natural and urban settings. Accordingly, this forward-looking book delves into forest-water interactions from multiple methodological, statistical, and process-based perspectives (with some chapters featuring data sets and open-source R code), concluding with a chapter on future forest hydrology under global change. Thus, this book describes the opportunities of convergence in high-frequency sensing, big data, and open source software to catalyze more comprehensive understanding of forest-water interactions. The book will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in an array of disciplines, including hydrology, forestry, ecology, botany, and environmental engineering.

Author : Manuel Casanova,Osvaldo Salazar,Oscar Seguel,Walter Luzio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789400759497

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The Soils of Chile by Manuel Casanova,Osvaldo Salazar,Oscar Seguel,Walter Luzio Pdf

This book is intended for students and soil scientists who want to know about the state of the art in soil sciences in Chile. The book merges a comprehensive bibliographical review of the soil surveys carried out throughout the length and breadth of Chilean territory during the past 40 years and more recent information obtained by the authors in a number of field studies. As its starting point the book presents a general overview of important features related to Chilean soils, such as geology and geomorphology, climate, land use and vegetation. In this long and narrow country different soil formation factors and processes have resulted in a broad variety of soil bodies, from the extremely arid Atacama desert to the Patagonian and Antarctic zones. This book provides a description and classification (mainly Soil Taxonomy) of the most important soil types. Particularly important are soils derived from volcanic materials, which cover extensive areas of Chile. The book also deals with soil management topics in relation to the chemical, physical and biological properties of Chilean soils and it includes a number of examples from throughout the country. Finally, the book shows how man has induced severe soil degradation problems in Chile, such as erosive soil degradation, non-erosive soil degradation and land desertification.

Author : Münir Öztürk,Khalid Rehman Hakeem,I. Faridah-Hanum,Recep Efe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783319128597

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Climate Change Impacts on High-Altitude Ecosystems by Münir Öztürk,Khalid Rehman Hakeem,I. Faridah-Hanum,Recep Efe Pdf

This book covers studies on the systematics of plant taxa and will include general vegetational aspects and ecological characteristics of plant life at altitudes above 1000 m. from different parts of the world. This volume also addresses how upcoming climate change scenarios will impact high altitude plant life. It presents case studies from the most important mountainous areas like the Himalayas, Caucasus and South America covering the countries like Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Kirghizia, Georgia, Russia,Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Americas. The book will serve as an invaluable resource source undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers.

Author : Lawrence S. Hamilton,James O. Juvik,F.N. Scatena
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461225003

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Tropical Montane Cloud Forests by Lawrence S. Hamilton,James O. Juvik,F.N. Scatena Pdf

Until relatively recently the valuable tropical montane cloud forests (hereaf ter usually referred to as TMCFs) of the world had scarcely come under the assaults experienced by the downslope montane and lowland forests. TMCFs are not hospitable environments for human occupation, and their remoteness (except in places near Andean high mountain settlements and in the Ethiopian Highlands) and difficult terrain have given them de facto protection. The ad jacent upper montane rain forests have indeed been under assault for timber, fuelwood, and for conversion to grazing and agriculture for many decades, even centuries in the Andes, but true cloud forest has only come under ex ploitation as these lower elevational resources have disappeared. They have also been "nibbled" at from above where there have been alpine grasslands under grazing pressure. Increasingly now, however, these cloud forest eco systems are being fragmented, reduced, and disturbed at an alarming rate. It is now becoming recognized that steps must be taken rapidly to increase our understanding of TMCF and to achieve their conservation, because: their water-capture function is extremely important to society; • their species endemism is high; they serve as refugia for endangered species being marginalized in these environments by increasingly transformed lower elevation ecosystems; they are relatively little studied; yet, their value to science is extremely high; they have low resilience to disturbance; vii viii Preface and many other reasons, which will be discussed subsequently in this publi cation.

Author : Khan Towhid Osman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319025414

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Forest Soils by Khan Towhid Osman Pdf

Forest soil characteristics are not only unique but their interpretation also differs from cropland soils. Just as there are diverse forest types, there are many soil variants that need different management. Today, forest plantations are being intensively managed for profitable timber, pulpwood and energy production. Site selection, species selection, site productivity evaluation, silvicultural treatments, and soil amendments need crucial soil information. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the physical, chemical and biological properties of forest soils and their implications on forest vegetation. Topics discussed include: major forest types of the world and their associated soils; forest biomass and nutrient dynamics; organic matter turnover and nutrient recycling; forest soil disturbance; forest soil and climate change; and forest soil management and silvicultural treatments.

Author : Sandra Spielvogel,Jérôme Laganière,Laurent Augusto,Jeff Allen Hatten
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889743995

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Vegetation Effects on Soil Organic Matter in Forested Ecosystems by Sandra Spielvogel,Jérôme Laganière,Laurent Augusto,Jeff Allen Hatten Pdf