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22 Jun 2016
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| 22 Jun 2016
Analysis of the drought recovery of Andosols on southern Ecuadorian Andean páramos
Vicente Iñiguez
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Programa para el manejo del Agua y del Suelo (PROMAS),
Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
Department of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, Earth
System Sciences Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels,
Belgium
Department of Earth and Environmental Science, KU Leuven,
Leuven, Belgium
Oscar Morales
Programa para el manejo del Agua y del Suelo (PROMAS),
Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
Felipe Cisneros
Programa para el manejo del Agua y del Suelo (PROMAS),
Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
Willy Bauwens
Department of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, Earth
System Sciences Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels,
Belgium
Guido Wyseure
Department of Earth and Environmental Science, KU Leuven,
Leuven, Belgium
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- Modelling Groundwater Hydrological Drought and Its Recovery Given Natural and Anthropogenic Scenarios in South America J. Vega‐Briones et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15340
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- Actual Evapotranspiration in the High Andean Grasslands: A Comparison of Measurement and Estimation Methods A. Ochoa-Sánchez et al. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00055
- Soil Moisture Forecast Using Transfer Learning: An Application in the High Tropical Andes D. Escobar-González et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16060832
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- Lags in hydrologic recovery following an extreme drought: Assessing the roles of climate and catchment characteristics Y. Yang et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017WR020683
- Frontiers in páramo water resources research: A multidisciplinary assessment G. Mosquera et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164373
- A field, laboratory, and literature review evaluation of the water retention curve of volcanic ash soils: How well do standard laboratory methods reflect field conditions? G. Mosquera et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14011
- High Impact Weather Events in the Andes G. Poveda et al. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00162
- Disentangling the impacts of climate, catchment, and morphological characteristics on hydrological drought propagation and recovery X. Luo et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2026.109799
- Modelling Groundwater Hydrological Drought and Its Recovery Given Natural and Anthropogenic Scenarios in South America J. Vega‐Briones et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15340
- The breathing of the Andean highlands: Net ecosystem exchange and evapotranspiration over the páramo of southern Ecuador G. Carrillo-Rojas et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.11.006
- Actual Evapotranspiration in the High Andean Grasslands: A Comparison of Measurement and Estimation Methods A. Ochoa-Sánchez et al. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00055
- Soil Moisture Forecast Using Transfer Learning: An Application in the High Tropical Andes D. Escobar-González et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16060832
- Local Surrogate Relationships Between Soil Texture Fractions and Near-Surface Hydro-Structural Properties for Hydrological Parameterization in High-Andean Catchments C. Mera-Parra et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems10070068
- Effects of Low-Severity Fire on Soil Physico-Chemical Properties in an Andean Páramo in Southern Ecuador V. Carrión-Paladines et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6120447
- Evaluation of the HEC-HMS model for the hydrological simulation of a paramo basin L. Timbe Castro et al. https://doi.org/10.15446/dyna.v86n210.70738
- Soil–vegetation–water interactions controlling solute flow and chemical weathering in volcanic ash soils of the high Andes S. Páez-Bimos et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-1507-2023
- Altitudinal and temporal evapotranspiration dynamics via remote sensing and vegetation index-based modelling over a scarce-monitored, high-altitudinal Andean páramo ecosystem of Southern Ecuador M. Ramón-Reinozo et al. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-019-8337-6
- Streamflow drought identification and characterization in a tropical Andean basin: effect of threshold methods A. Sucozhañay et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2025.2600086
- Unraveling the recovery responses to drought propagation across scales and their links to ENSO X. Xiao et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2026.103380
- Patterns in Soil Chemical Weathering Related to Topographic Gradients and Vegetation Structure in a High Andean Tropical Ecosystem A. Molina et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004856
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Short summary
The drought recovery of the soils in Neotropical Andean grasslands above 3500 m a.s.l. known as "páramo" was studied in this paper. The main aim was to estimate the recovery speed of the páramo soils after drought periods. A typical catchment on the páramo at 3500 m a.s.l. was compared to a lower grassland one at 2600 m a.s.l. The study revealed that, at the plot scale, the soil moisture drought recovery was higher in the páramo. At the catchment scale, however, was not as pronounced.
The drought recovery of the soils in Neotropical Andean grasslands above 3500 m a.s.l. known as...
