Tropical Andes
Genetic variation of avian malaria in the tropical Andes: a relationship with the spatial distribution of hosts
... the tropical Andes, it was found that cyt b gene variation in avian haemosporidia is accumulated within rather than among elevation ...the tropical Andes is consistent with prevalence peaks at ...
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Multidecadal change in streamflow associated with anthropogenic disturbances in the tropical Andes
... the tropical Andes, with rapid deforestation of native forests and afforestation with exotic tree species in more recent ...in tropical Andean basins, which often display an abrupt pattern of ...
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Current state of glaciers in the tropical Andes: a multi-century perspective on glacier evolution and climate change
... the tropical Andes were much larger during the LIA than today, but the date of their maximum extent and the stages of their subse- quent retreat remained highly ...the tropical Andes using ...
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Millennial-scale vegetation changes in the tropical Andes using ecological grouping and ordination methods
... the tropical Andes to recon- struct environmental change at a regional scale over the past 30 000 years ...the tropical An- ...the Andes facing the Amazon lowlands, and the Peruvian– Bolivian ...
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Uncertainties in climate change projections and regional downscaling in the tropical Andes: implications for water resources management
... Abstract. Climate change is expected to have a large im- pact on water resources worldwide. A major problem in as- sessing the potential impact of a changing climate on these resources is the difference in spatial scale ...
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Spatio temporal variability of snow water equivalent in the extra tropical Andes Cordillera from distributed energy balance modeling and remotely sensed snow cover
... Abstract. Seasonal snow cover is the primary water source for human use and ecosystems along the extratropical Andes Cordillera. Despite its importance, relatively little research has been devoted to understanding ...
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Rainfall characteristics in the central Andes of Peru
... the tropical Andes precipitation would be very important for assessing climate variability and changes as well as to forecast precipitation using the numerical ...
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A Holocene black carbon ice-core record of biomass burning in the Amazon Basin from Illimani, Bolivia
... (Bolivian Andes), spanning the entire Holocene back to the last deglaciation 13 000 years ...the tropical Andes and that opposite hydroclimate variations were observed between the northern and ...
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Ozone layer adaptive model from direct relationship between solar activity and total column ozone for the tropical equator-Andes-Colombian region
... Due to the lack of models to predict the ozone layer even after an ample range of total column ozone (TCO) measurements around the globe, a direct relationship between solar activity by means of sunspot number obser- ...
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Precipitation changes in the South American Altiplano since 1300 AD reconstructed by tree-rings
... agricultural-based societies triggered social conflicts and a period of wars in the Altiplano during the 14th and 15th cen- turies (Nielsen et al., 2002). A persistent drought has also been recorded during the 14th ...
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Host mTORC1 Signaling Regulates Andes Virus Replication
... test this, we infected HMVEC-L cells with ANDV at an MOI of 1 for 1 h and then treated cells with temsirolimus for 3 days. After that time, the titer of virus in the culture medium was determined, and total RNA was ...
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Permafrost distribution modelling in the semi-arid Chilean Andes
... in the Supplement); in contrast, an irregular and collapsed surface due to thawing of ice commonly indicates that rock glacier is in its relict form (Putman and David, 2009). Be- cause of uncertainties in this ...
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Gametocyte carriage in uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria following treatment with artemisinin combination therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data
... for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Umberto D ’ Alessandro, Medical Research Council Unit, Fajara, The Gambia, LSHTM, London, UK and ...
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Air temperature, relative humidity, climate regionalization and thermal comfort of Nigeria
... ABSTRACT: Planners and policy makers require information about the regions for which they are responsible. However, it seems that many developing countries, including Nigeria, are not adequately prepared either for their ...
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ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF THE ESSENTIAL OIL OF MYRCIANTHES MYRCINOIDES (KUNTH) GRIFO (MYRTACEAE) COLLECTED IN THE VENEZUELAN ANDES
... Many infectious diseases remain a public health problem around the world due at resistance to antibiotics, especially diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhoeal disease, AIDS, hospital-acquired infections, leishmaniasis, ...
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An investigation of factors relevant to development of teak plantations in South East Asia with particular reference to Burma
... It constitutes 16 per cent of the total forest land of Burma Table 7 , and is subdivided into a tropical wet evergreen and b tropical semi-evergreen types.. 2.1.1 Tropical wet evergreen[r] ...
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Comparison of health conditions treated with traditional and biomedical health care in a Quechua community in rural Bolivia
... A review of the English scientific literature yielded no morbidity data for specific Bolivian communities. A PAHO (Pan-American Health Organization) report lists the ten principal causes of general morbidity in Bolivia ...
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Genetic approaches to understanding human adaptation to altitude in the Andes
... In addition to morphological characteristics, heritability estimates have been made for the ventilatory response to hypoxia in the Aymara. The hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR) is one of the initial responses to ...
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Recent origin and rapid speciation of Neotropical orchids in the world's richest plant biodiversity hotspot
... migrations and allopatric speciation through isolation (Gentry & Dodson, 1987; Hoorn et al., 2013). This effect should have been most accentuated over the last 10 million yr (Ma), during which c. 60% of the current ...
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Pyritized microfossils in palynological slides from the Late Cretaceous of Colombia
... ABSTRACT – Palynological investigations of Late Cretaceous to Tertiary sediments of the Andes in Colombia yielded some distinct groups of palynoclasts recovered as pyritized remains of d[r] ...
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