Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Aug., 2004), pp. 243-250 (8 pages) In the Andean Cordillera, natural grasslands above 2500 m are used for livestock grazing. Few studies on the ...

Questions: Have millennia of human land use fundamentally altered the vegetation of a large proportion of the high Andean puna biome, with natural vegetation now restricted to inaccessible areas? Can ...

On the crest of the eastern Andes, about an eight-hour drive on a dirt road from Cuzco, Peru, is an expansive vista of one of the most diverse forests on earth. Storm clouds boil up in the pink ...

The government of Peru has declared Marcapata Ccollana a new agrobiodiversity zone in the Andean highlands. The reserve is home to an Indigenous community that preserves Incan farming techniques and ...

The Andes mountains, in southern Peru, are featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. This image was processed in a way that makes vegetation appear blue, while ...

image: Modeling projections depend on the installation of networks specific to these areas in Brazil and the Andes, where the available data falls far short of what is needed view more Tropical ...

A Polish biologist has identified a previously unknown species of orchid growing more than 3,000 metres above sea level in ...

Peruvian scientists have identified three new-to-science frog species in the Andes, highlighting the mountains’ wealth of biodiversity, according to a recent study. The three species have been named ...

Analysing satellite data spanning the past 20 years, the research team based at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge examined how vegetation has been changing along the Pacific coast of Peru and ...