CLIMATE-CHANGE
; WESTERN-GHATS
; CONSERVATION
; BIODIVERSITY
; DIVERSITY
; ANDES
; FLOW
; TEMPERATURE
; MOUNTAINS
; EVOLUTION
WOS学科分类:
Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向:
Science & Technology - Other Topics
英文摘要:
Tropical montane rivers (TMR) are born in tropical mountains, descend through montane forests, and feed major rivers. floodplains, and oceans. They are characterized by rapid temperature dines and varied flow disturbance regimes, both of which promote habitat heterogeneity, high biological diversity and endemism, and distinct organisms' life-history adaptations. Production, transport, and processing of sediments, nutrients, and carbon are key ecosystem processes connecting high-elevation streams with lowland floodplains, in turn influencing soil fertility and biotic productivity downstream.TMR provide key ecosystem services to hundreds of millions of people in tropical nations. In light of existing human-induced disturbances, including climate change, TMR can be used as natural model systems to examine the effects of rapid changes in abiotic drivers and their influence on biodiversity and ecosystem function.
1.Univ San Francisco Quito, Inst BIOSFERA, Colegio Ciencias Biol & Ambientales, Quito, Ecuador 2.Cornell Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Ithaca, NY USA 3.Colorado State Univ, Dept Biol, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA 4.Univ Canberra, Inst Appl Ecol, Canberra, ACT, Australia 5.Florida Int Univ, Dept Earth & Environm, Miami, FL 33199 USA 6.Florida Int Univ, Inst Water & Environm, Miami, FL 33199 USA 7.Univ Amer, Fac Ingn & Ciencias Aplicadas, Ingn Ambiental, Grp Invest Biodiversidad Medio Ambiente & Salud B, Quito, Ecuador 8.Univ Florida, Soil & Water Sci Dept, Gainesville, FL USA 9.Alaska Pacific Univ, Dept Environm Sci, Anchorage, AK USA
Recommended Citation:
Encalada, Andrea C.,Flecker, Alexander S.,Poff, N. LeRoy,et al. A global perspective on tropical montane rivers[J]. SCIENCE,2019-01-01,365(6458):1124-1129