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  • 100 years of human adaptation to climate change in the High Andes 
    Akesson, Christine; Matthews-Bird, Frazer; Bitting, Madeleine; Fennell, Christie-Jane; Church, Warren B; Larry C. Peterson, Larry C.; Valencia, Bryan G.; Bush, M. B. (Nature Publishing Group, 2019)
    umid montane forests are challenging environments for human habitation. We used high-resolution fossil pollen, charcoal, diatom and sediment chemistry data from the iconic archaeological setting ...
  • (127-135) Proposals to add new Provisions and Recommendations to Division III of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants related to virtual participation in the Nomenclature Section. 
    Landrum, Leslie; Fortunato, Renee; Barkworth, Mary; Breitwieser, I.; Demissew, Sebsebe; Dönmez, Ali; Dutta, S.; Freire Fierro, Alina; León, Blanca; Moore, Gerry; Mosyakin, Sergei L.; Sennikov, Alexander; Rico Arse, Lourdes; Smith, Gideon F.; Parra O., Carlos (2021)
    A Special-purpose Committee on Virtual Participation in theNomenclature Section (NS) was established at the XIX InternationalBotanical Congress in Shenzhen, China in 2017 (Wilson in Taxon68: 160–162. 2019). The mandate of ...
  • (193) Proposal to democratize aspects of the governance of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants 
    Smith, Gideon F.; Figueiredo, Estrela; Moore, Gerry; Landrum, Leslie R.; Gereau, Roy E.; Prado, Jefferson; Demissew, Sebsebe; Applequist, Wendy; Quintanar, Alejandro; Renée, Fortunato; Freire Fierro, Alina; Wen, Jun; Fei Deng, Yun (Scopus, 2022)
    Prior to the 2011 Melbourne Congress, the late esteemednomenclaturalist Gillian Perry (in Taxon 59: 1915–1916. 2010) dis-covered a previously overlooked issue threatening the perceivedhomotypy of some 30 names with conserved ...
  • 2,100 years of human adaptation to climate change in the High Andes 
    Åkesson, Christine M.; Matthews Bird, Frazer; Fennell, Christie Jane; Church, Warren B.; Peterson, Larry C.; Valencia, Bryan G. (Nature Publishing Group, 2020)
    Humid montane forests are challenging environments for human habitation. We used high-resolution fossil pollen, charcoal, diatom and sediment chemistry data from the iconic archaeological setting of Laguna de los Condores, ...
  • 700,000 years of tropical Andean glaciation 
    Rodbell, D. T.; Hatfield, R. G.; Abbott, M. B.; Woods, A; Chen, C. Y.; Stoner6, J. S.; Weidhaas, N. C.; Hillman, A.L.; Larsen D.J.; Delgado, G.; Katz, S.A.; Solada, K.E.; Valencia, Bryan G. (Scopus, 2022)
    Our understanding of the climatic teleconnections that drove ice-age cycles has been limited by a paucity of well-dated tropical records of glaciation that span several glacial–interglacial intervals. Glacial deposits ...
  • A 12,700-year history of paleolimnological change from an Andean microrefugium 
    de Novaes Nascimento, Majoi; Laurenzi, Anne Gail; Valencia, Bryan G.; Van, Robert; Bush, Mark (SAGE Publications, 2018)
    We present a 12,6700-yr limnological history of Lake Miski, a high-elevation lake in a wet section of the Peruvian Andes. While many shallow Andean lakes dried up during the mid-Holocene, loss-on-ignition, magnetic ...
  • A checklist of Diptera collected in the Caña de Azúcar morgue of Aragua, Venezuela 
    Nuñez Rodríguez, José; Bonilla Villarreal, Mary; Liria, Jonathan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
    Background: Venezuela has experienced soaring rates of violent crime, in particular, homicides. The Aragua state with 142 to 168 crimes per 100,000 inhabitants has the highest homicide rate in the last 5 years. All these ...
  • A collaboratively derived environmental research agenda for Galápagos 
    Izurieta, Arturo; Delgado, Byron; Moity, Nicolas; Calvopiña, Monica; Cedeño, Yvan; Banda-Cruz, Gonzalo; Cruz, Eliecer; Aguas, Milton; Arroba, Francisco; Astudillo, Iván; Bazurto, Diana; Soria, Mónica; Banks, Stuart; Bayas, Steve; Belli, Simone; Bermúdez, Rafael; Boelling, Nicolai; Bolaños, Jimmy; Borbor, Mercy; Brito, Ma. Lorena; Bucheli, Leopoldo; Campbell, Karl; Carranza, David; Carrión, Jorge; Casafont, Maria; Castro, Xavier; Chamorro, Sandra; Chávez, Juan; Chicaiza, David; Chumbi, René; Couenberg, Paulina; Cousseau, David; Cruz, Marilyn; d’Ozouville, Noemí; de la Guía, Cristina; de la Torre, Giorgio; Molina Díaz, Carla; Duchicela, Jessica; Endara, Daniel; Garcia, Vanessa; Gellibert, Cynthia; Gibbs, James; Guzmán, Juan Carlos; Heylings, Pippa; Iglesias, Andrés; Izurieta, Juan Carlos; Jaramillo, Patricia; Klingman, Asleigh; Laurie, Andrew; Leon, Patricia; Medina, Jaime; Mendieta, Edison; Merlen, Godfrey; Montalvo, Carla; Naula, Edwin; Paez, Diego; Peralta, Manuel; Peralvo, Marcos; Piu, Mario; Villarraga, Hernán G.; Rousseaud, Ana; Pozo, Mireya; Proaño, Daniel; Ramos, Mónica; Rueda, Danny; Salinas, Pelayo; Salmoral, Gloria; Saraguro, Silvia (Surey Beatty & Sons, 2018)
    Galápagos is one of the most pristine archipelagos in the world and its conservation relies upon research and sensible management. In recent decades both the interest in, and the needs of, the islands have increased, yet ...
  • A Conceptual Model for Land System Dynamics as a Coupled Human–Environment System 
    Aspinall, Richard; Staiano, Michele (MDPI, 2017)
    This paper presents a conceptual model of land as a coupled human–environment system. Land use and land cover are incorporated as elements of the human and environment system respectively. Drivers and associated processes ...
  • A first checklist of native names and ethnozoological notes of snakes (Squamata: Serpentes) from Kichwa and Shiwiar territories at the Amazonian Ecuador 
    Ortega Andrade, H. Mauricio; Astudillo Bravo, Diana; Ordóñez Checa, Eliana (Scopus, 2023)
    Traditional knowledge, much like scientific knowledge, is the product of observation and reflection from the relationship between people and their habitat. This paper documents the first inventory of native names and ...
  • A First Look at the Inhibitory Potential of Urospatha sagittifolia (Araceae) Ethanolic Extract for Bothrops atrox Snakebite Envenomation 
    Vera Palacios, Antonio Leonel; Sacoto Torres, Juan Diego; Hernández Altamirano, Josselin A.; Moreno, Andres; Peñuela Mora, María Cristina; Salazar Valenzuela, David; Salazar Mogollón, Noroska Gabriela; de Almeida, José R. (Scopus, 2022)
    Bothrops atrox snakebites are a relevant problem in the Amazon basin. In this biodiverse region, the ethnomedicinal approach plays an important role as an alternative to antivenom therapy. Urospatha sagittifolia (Araceae) ...
  • A Fuzzy System Classification Approach for QSAR Modeling of α- Amylase and α-Glucosidase Inhibitors 
    Diéguez Santana, Karel; Puris, Amilkar; Rivera Borroto, Oscar M; Casanola Martin, Gerardo M; Rasulev, Bakhtiyor; González Díaz, Humberto (Scopus, 2022)
    Introduction This report proposes the application of a new Machine Learning algorithm called Fuzzy Unordered Rules Induction Algorithm (FURIA)-C in the classification of drug-like compounds with antidiabetic inhibitory ...
  • A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic 
    Legate, Nicole; Thi Nguyen, Thuy-vy; Moller, Arlen C; Lisa, Legault; Vally, Zahir; Tajchman, Zuzanna; Zsido, Andras N.; Zrimsek, Miha; Chen, Zhang; Ziano, Ignazio; Gialitaki, Zoi; Ceary, Chris D.; Álvarez Sola, Sara (Scopus, 2022)
    Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country, preregistered experiment (n = 25,718 from 89 ...
  • A human role in Andean megafaunal extinction? 
    Raczka, Marco F.; Mosblech, N.A.; Giosan, L.; Valencia, Bryan G.; Folcik, A.M.; Kingston, M.; Baskin, S.; Bush, M.B. (Elsevier, 2019)
    A new fossil pollen, Sporormiella, and sediment chemistry record from Lake Llaviucu, Ecuador, spanning the period from 16,280–9000 years Before Present, provides a high-resolution record of paleoecological change in the ...
  • A machine learning assisted prediction of potential biochar and its applications in anaerobic digestion for valuable chemicals and energy recovery from organic waste 
    Zhang, Pengshuai; Zhang, Tengyu; Zhang, Jingxin; Liu, Huaiyou; Chicaiza Ortiz, Cristhian David; Lee, Jonathan T. E.; He, Yiliang; Dai, Yanjun; Tong, Yen Wah (Scopus, 2024)
    The utilization of biochar derived from biomass residue to enhance anaerobic digestion (AD) for bioenergy recovery offers a sustainable approach to advance sustainable energy and mitigate climate change. However, conducting ...
  • A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic 
    Charyate, Abdelilah C. A.; Dubrov, Dmitrii; Tejada Rivera, María del Carmen M. C.; Miller, Jeremy K.; Uusberg , Andero; Lerner , Jennifer S.; Gross , James J.; Bamikole Agesin, Bamikole; Bernardo, Márcia; Campos, Olatz; Eudave , Luis; Grzech , Karolina; Hausman Ozery, Daphna; Jackson, Emily A.; Elkin Oswaldo, Luis Garcia ; Meir Drexler , Shira; Penić Jurković1, Anita; Álvarez Solas, Sara (Scopus, 2021)
    The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase ...
  • A multi-method dating approach to reassess the geochronology of faulted Quaternary deposits in the central sector of the Iberian Chain (NE Spain) 
    Moreno, Davinia; Gutiérrez, Francisco; delValac, Miren; Carbonel, Domingo; Jiménez, Fernando; Alonso, M Jesús; López, Gloria I.; Martínez Pillado, Virginia; Martínez, David; Guzmán, Oswaldo (Scopus, 2021)
    Seismic hazard assessment and geochronology are closely linked disciplines. The quantity and quality of the geochronological data used for fault-source characterization is crucial in seismic hazard estimates, which may ...
  • A neotropical perspective on the uniqueness of the Holocene among interglacials 
    Schiferl, J.; Åkesson, C. M.; Valencia, Bryan G.; Rozas-Davila, A.; McGee, D.; Woods, A.; Chen, C. Y.; Hatfield, R. G.; Rodbell, D. T.; Abbott, M. B.; Bush, M. B.; Kingston, M. (Scopus, 2023)
    Understanding how tropical systems have responded to large-scale climate change, such as glacial-interglacial oscillations, and how human impacts have altered those responses is key to current and future ecology. A sedimentary ...
  • A new method for microplastic sampling and isolation in mountain glaciers: A case study of one antisana glacier, Ecuadorian Andes 
    Cabrera, Marcela; Bryan G., Valencia; Lucas Solis, Oscar Enrique; Calero, Jaqueline L.; Maisincho, Luis; Conicelli, Bruno; Massaine Moulatlet, Gabriel; Vellosa Capparelli, Mariana (Scopus, 2020)
    Microplastic contamination has become ubiquitous in terrestrial and marine environments. Recent studies have shown that the wind can transport and deposit microplastics in high mountain ecosystems, but microplastic ...
  • A new species of Leucostethus (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from the Cordillera Mache-Chindul in northwestern Ecuador, with comments on similar Colostethus and Hyloxalus 
    Vigle, Gregory O.; Coloma, Luis A.; Juan Carlos, Santos; Hernadez Nieto, Sebastián; Ortega Andrade, H. Mauricio; Paluh, Daniel J.; Read, Morley (Scopus, 2020)
    We describe a new species of dendrobatid frog, Leucostethus bilsa sp. nov., using molecular, morphological, and acoustic evidence. We also comment on the taxonomic status of four similar Hyloxalus and Colostethus. We provide ...