Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador

The Ecosystem (Reserva Biológica San Francisco). - Mountain Rain Forests in Southern Ecuador as a Hotspot of Biodiversity Limited Knowledge and Diverging Patterns. - The People Settled Around Podocarpus National Park. - Ecuador Suffers the Highest Deforestation Rate in South America. - Methodological Challenges of a Megadiverse Ecosystem. - Gradients in Ecosystem Analysis. - Investigating Gradients in Ecosystem Analysis. - The Investigated Gradients. - The Altitudinal Gradient. - Climate. - Soils Along the Altitudinal Transect and in Catchments. - Flora and Fungi: Composition and Function. - Flora and Fungi: Composition and Function. - Flora and Fungi: Composition and Function. - Flora and Fungi: Composition and Function. - Flora and Fungi: Composition and Function. - Fauna: Composition and Function. - Fauna: Composition and Function. - Fauna: Composition and Function. - Fauna: Composition and Function. - Water Relations. - Nutrient Status and Fluxes at the Field and Catchment Scale. - Biotic Soil Activities. - Altitudinal Changes in Stand Structure and Biomass Allocation of Tropical Mountain Forests in Relation to Microclimate and Soil Chemistry. - Stand Structure, Transpiration Responses in Trees and Vines and Stand Transpiration of Different Forest Types Within the Mountain Rainforest. - Plant Growth Along the Altitudinal Gradient Role of Plant Nutritional Status, Fine Root Activity, and Soil Properties. - Spatial Heterogeneity Patterns a Comparison Between Gorges and Ridges in the Upper Part of an Evergreen Lower Montane Forest. - The Unique Purdiaea nutans Forest of Southern Ecuador Abiotic Characteristics and Cryptogamic Diversity. - Climate Variability. - Growth Dynamics of Trees in Tropical Mountain Ecosystems. - Temporal Heterogeneities Matter Deposition from RemoteAreas. - Gradients of Disturbance. - Gap Dynamics in a Tropical Lower Montane Forest in South Ecuador. - Landslides as Important Disturbance Regimes Causes and Regeneration. - Sustainable and Non-Sustainable Use of Natural Resources by Indigenous and Local Communities. - Natural Forest Management in Neotropical Mountain Rain Forests An Ecological Experiment. - Permanent Removal of the Forest: Construction of Roads and Power Supply Lines. - Forest Clearing by Slash and Burn. - Gradients of Regeneration. - Gradients and Patterns of Soil Physical Parameters at Local, Field and Catchment Scales. - Visualization and Analysis of Flow Patterns and Water Flow Simulations in Disturbed and Undisturbed Tropical Soils. - Pasture Management and Natural Soil Regeneration. - Succession Stages of Vegetation Regeneration: Secondary Tropical Mountain Forests. - Reforestation of Abandoned Pastures: Seed Ecology of Native Species and Production of Indigenous Plant Material. - Reforestation of Abandoned Pastures: Silvicultural Means to Accelerate Forest Recovery and Biodiversity. - Successional Stages of Faunal Regeneration A Case Study on Megadiverse Moths. - Synopsis. - Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem a Synthesis.