Ecuador is one of the smallest and most densely populated countries in South America. In
spite of this, it is also one of the 17 megadiverse countries worldwide and home to the …

Water resources worldwide are under severe stress from increasing climate variability and
human pressures. In the tropical Andes, pre-Inca cultures developed nature-based water …

The potential benefits of planting trees have generated significant interest with respect to
sequestering carbon and restoring other forest based ecosystem services. Reliable …

Conversion of tropical forests to crop lands and pastures has been an on-going issue in the
Neotropics for decades. Despite the fact that international agreements and incentives have …

In watersheds, which function as social–ecological systems (SESs), hydrological ecosystem
services (HESs) are crucial flows connecting natural and social components. The internal …

Land use is known to affect water quality yet the impact it has on aquatic microbial
communities in tropical systems is poorly understood. We used 16S metabarcoding to …

Large‐scale reforestation is promoted as an important strategy to mitigate climate change
and biodiversity loss. A persistent challenge for efforts to restore ecosystems at scale is how …

Smallholder tree plantations are expanding in the steepland tropics due to demand for
timber and interest in ecosystem services, such as carbon storage. Financial mechanisms …

DNA barcoding is a powerful tool to identify species using nucleotide differences found in
the cytochrome oxidase I mitochondrial gene between species. Since it was proposed …

Understanding trade-offs across time is important in many areas of economics, but eliciting
and estimating the parameters of discounting processes is difficult. We implement a novel …