BioResilience – Colombia

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Month: September 2019


Páramo de Monquentiva: Introducing the field sites from the SocioCultural Component

By Monica Amador, with Naomi Millner   Parque Natural Regional Vista Hermosa de Monquentiva Vereda Monquentiva – Guatavita   Type of forest: Paramo and High Andean Mountains Inhabitants: 200 approximately   The Sociocultural Component of the BioResilience project aims to explore and analyze the human practices that have historically participated in the transformation of the […]


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Recovering long-term vegetation and environmental records in Andean ecosystems of Colombia

In June 2019, the BioResilience project palaeoecology team visited and sampled lakes from contrasting regions in terms of natural ecosystems and cultures. We crossed the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia from the lowland forests in the mid-Magdalena Valley to High Andean forest in the Cundiboyacense Plateau, covering an altitudinal transect from 200 to 3000 m asl. […]


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Evaluating the resilience of soils in Andean ecosystems

The BioResilience soil field team is currently led by Dr Carmen Montes, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia UNAD de Colombia, in collaboration with Dr Julieth Serrano and Dr Ted Feldpausch (project PI) from the University of Exeter, UK. Dr Montes went to the field to sample soil at 12 plots at La Serrania de las […]


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