Plant Diversity and Composition Changes along an Altitudinal Gradient in the Isolated Volcano Sumaco in the Ecuadorian Amazon
The paramo is a unique and severely threatened ecosystem scattered in the high northern Andes of South America. However, several further, extra-Andean paramos exist, of which a particular case is situated on the active volcano Sumaco, in the northwestern Amazon Basin of Ecuador. We have set an eleva...
Main Authors: | Pablo Lozano, Omar Cabrera, Gwendolyn Peyre, Antoine Cleef, Theofilos Toulkeridis |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-06-01
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Series: | Diversity |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/12/6/229 |
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