Ectomycorrhizas of Three Species of Nyctaginaceae in the Tropical Mountain Rain Forest of South Ecuador

2014 ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Ingeborg Haug ◽  
Ingrid Kottke ◽  
Juan Suárez
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Mountain ◽  
Tropical Mountain Rain Forest

Post-Hurricane Responses of Climbers in a Tropical Mountain Rain Forest of Martinique

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annik Schnitzler ◽  
Claire Arnold ◽  
Jean-Pierre Fiard ◽  
Philippe Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Mountain ◽  
Tropical Mountain Rain Forest

Biomass and carbon dynamics of a tropical mountain rain forest in China

2010 ◽  
Vol 53 (7) ◽  
pp. 798-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
DeXiang Chen ◽  
YiDe Li ◽  
HePing Liu ◽  
Han Xu ◽  
WenFa Xiao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Carbon Dynamics ◽  
Tropical Mountain ◽  
Tropical Mountain Rain Forest

Area-wide evapotranspiration monitoring at the crown level of a tropical mountain rain forest

2017 ◽  
Vol 194 ◽  
pp. 219-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenner Silva ◽  
Paulina Álava-Núñez ◽  
Simone Strobl ◽  
Erwin Beck ◽  
Jörg Bendix
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Mountain ◽  
Tropical Mountain Rain Forest

scholarly journals Atmospheric salt deposition in a tropical mountain rain forest at the eastern Andean slopes of South Ecuador – Pacific or Atlantic origin?

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (19) ◽  
pp. 27177-27218
Author(s):  
S. Makowski Giannoni ◽  
K. Trachte ◽  
R. Rollenbeck ◽  
L. Lehnert ◽  
J. Fuchs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Sea Salt ◽  
Salt Transport ◽  
Air Masses ◽  
Salt Deposition ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Tropical Mountain ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Southern Ecuador ◽  
Tropical Mountain Rain Forest

Abstract. Salt (NaCl) is recently proven to be of highest importance for ecosystem functioning of the Amazon lowland forests because of its importance for herbivory, litter decomposition and thus, carbon cycling. Salt deposition should generally decline with distance from its marine sources. For tropical South America, a negative east-west salt availability gradient is assumed in the Amazon as a consequence of the barrier effect of the Andes for Pacific air masses. However, this generalized pattern may not hold for the tropical mountain rain forest in the Andes of southern Ecuador. To analyze salt availability, we investigate the deposition of Na+ and Cl- which are good proxies of sea spray aerosol. Because of the complexity of the terrain and related cloud and rain formation processes, salt deposition was analyzed from both, rain and occult precipitation (OP) water along an altitudinal gradient over a period from 2004 to 2009. To assess the influence of Atlantic and Pacific air masses on the locally observed deposition of sodium and chloride, sea-salt aerosol concentration data from the Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate (MACC) reanalysis dataset and back-trajectory statistical methods were combined. Our results based on deposition time series and 2192 generated trajectories show a clear difference in the temporal variation of sodium and chloride concentration due to height and exposure to winds. The sea-salt transport was highly seasonal where higher locations revealed a stronger seasonality. Although the influence of the easterlies were predominant regarding atmospheric circulation, the statistical analysis of trajectories and hybrid receptor models revealed a stronger impact of the Pacific sea-salt sources on the deposition at the study area. The highest concentration in rain and cloud water was found between September and February originating from both, the equatorial Pacific and Atlantic. However, the Pacific sources contributed with up to 25 % to the observed total concentration of Na+ and Cl- at the receptor site although the frequency of occurrence of the respective trajectories is below 10 %. This highlights the great importance of westerly winds from the Pacific for the sea-salt transport to the deposition into the tropical mountain forests at the eastern Andean slopes of southern Ecuador.

Testate amoebae (protista) of an elevational gradient in the tropical mountain rain forest of Ecuador

Pedobiologia ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentyna Krashevska ◽  
Michael Bonkowski ◽  
Mark Maraun ◽  
Stefan Scheu
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Testate Amoebae ◽  
Tropical Mountain ◽  
Tropical Mountain Rain Forest
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