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User-driven design of decision support systems for polycentric environmental resources management by Zulkafli, Zed, Perez, Katya, Vitolo, Claudia, Buytaert, Wouter, Karpouzoglou, Timothy, Dewulf, Art, De Bièvre, Bert, Clark, Julian, Hannah, David M., Shaheed, Simrita

“…Open and decentralized technologies such as the Internet provide increasing opportunities to create knowledge and deliver computer-based decision support for…”
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Impacts of land use on the hydrological response of tropical Andean catchments by Ochoa-Tocachi, Boris F., Buytaert, Wouter, De Bièvre, Bert, Célleri, Rolando, Crespo, Patricio, Villacís, Marcos, Llerena, Carlos A., Acosta, Luis, Villazón, Mauricio, Guallpa, Mario, Gil-Ríos, Junior, Fuentes, Paola, Olaya, Dimas, Viñas, Paúl, Rojas, Gerver, Arias, Sandro

“…Changes in land use and land cover are major drivers of hydrological alteration in the tropical Andes. However, quantifying their impacts is fraught with…”
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Human impact on the hydrology of the Andean páramos by Buytaert, Wouter, Célleri, Rolando, De Bièvre, Bert, Cisneros, Felipe, Wyseure, Guido, Deckers, Jozef, Hofstede, Robert

“…This paper analyses the problems involved in the conservation and management of the hydrological system of the South American páramo. The páramo consists of a…”
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Glacial melt content of water use in the tropical Andes by Buytaert, Wouter, Moulds, Simon, Acosta, Luis, De Bièvre, Bert, Olmos, Carlos, Villacis, Marcos, Tovar, Carolina, Verbist, Koen M J

“…Accelerated melting of glaciers is expected to have a negative effect on the water resources of mountain regions and their adjacent lowlands, with tropical…”
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The effects of afforestation and cultivation on water yield in the Andean páramo by Buytaert, Wouter, Iñiguez, Vicente, Bièvre, Bert De

“…Over the last decades, the Andean highlands of Ecuador have been characterised by intense afforestation efforts, in order to increase the economic return of…”
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Potential contributions of pre-Inca infiltration infrastructure to Andean water security by Ochoa-Tocachi, Boris F., Bardales, Juan D., Antiporta, Javier, Pérez, Katya, Acosta, Luis, Mao, Feng, Zulkafli, Zed, Gil-Ríos, Junior, Angulo, Oscar, Grainger, Sam, Gammie, Gena, De Bièvre, Bert, Buytaert, Wouter

“…Water resources worldwide are under severe stress from increasing climate variability and human pressures. In the tropical Andes, pre-Inca cultures developed…”
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A whole-ecosystem experiment reveals flow-induced shifts in a stream community by Rosero-López, Daniela, Todd Walter, M., Flecker, Alexander S., De Bièvre, Bert, Osorio, Rafael, González-Zeas, Dunia, Cauvy-Fraunié, Sophie, Dangles, Olivier

“…The growing threat of abrupt and irreversible changes to the functioning of freshwater ecosystems compels robust measures of tipping point thresholds. To…”
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Environmental factors controlling spatial variation in sediment yield in a central Andean mountain area by Molina, Armando, Govers, Gerard, Poesen, Jean, Van Hemelryck, Hendrik, De Bièvre, Bert, Vanacker, Veerle

“…A large spatial variability in sediment yield was observed from small streams in the Ecuadorian Andes. The objective of this study was to analyze the…”
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CONDESAN: Better Knowledge, Better Decisions—Supporting Sustainable Andean Mountains Development by Saravia, Miguel, Devenish, Christian, De Bièvre, Bert, Peralvo, Manuel

“…The Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN) was established in February 1993 after a series of consultations among…”
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Regionalization of land‐use impacts on streamflow using a network of paired catchments by Ochoa‐Tocachi, Boris F., Buytaert, Wouter, De Bièvre, Bert

“…Quantifying the impact of land use and cover (LUC) change on catchment hydrological response is essential for land‐use planning and management. Yet…”
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Spatial and temporal rainfall variability in mountainous areas: A case study from the south Ecuadorian Andes by Buytaert, Wouter, Celleri, Rolando, Willems, Patrick, Bièvre, Bert De, Wyseure, Guido

“…Particularly in mountain environments, rainfall can be extremely variable in space and time. For many hydrological applications such as modelling,…”
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Citizen Science for Water Resources Management: Toward Polycentric Monitoring and Governance? by Buytaert, Wouter, Dewulf, Art, De Bièvre, Bert, Clark, Julian, Hannah, David M

“…Novel and more affordable technologies are allowing new actors to engage increasingly in the monitoring of hydrological systems and the assessment of water…”
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Streamlined eco‐engineering approach helps define environmental flows for tropical Andean headwaters by Rosero‐López, Daniela, Walter, M. Todd, Flecker, Alexander S., Lloret, Pablo, De Bièvre, Bert, González‐Zeas, Dunia, Calvez, Roger, Dangles, Olivier

“…Applying the environmental flows concept to human‐altered lotic ecosystems continues to face many practical challenges and barriers. Here, we modify a…”
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Citizen science in hydrology and water resources: opportunities for knowledge generation, ecosystem service management, and sustainable development by Buytaert, Wouter, Zulkafli, Zed, Grainger, Sam, Acosta, Luis, Alemie, Tilashwork C., Bastiaensen, Johan, De Bièvre, Bert, Bhusal, Jagat, Clark, Julian, Dewulf, Art, Foggin, Marc, Hannah, David M., Hergarten, Christian, Isaeva, Aiganysh, Karpouzoglou, Timothy, Pandeya, Bhopal, Paudel, Deepak, Sharma, Keshav, Steenhuis, Tammo, Tilahun, Seifu, Van Hecken, Gert, Zhumanova, Munavar

“…The participation of the general public in the research design, data collection and interpretation process together with scientists is often referred to as…”
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Investing in nature-based solutions: Cost profiles of collective-action watershed investment programs by Kang, Shiteng, Kroeger, Timm, Shemie, Daniel, Echavarria, Marta, Montalvo, Tamara, Bremer, Leah L., Bennett, Genevieve, Barreto, Samuel Roiphe, Bracale, Henrique, Calero, Claudia, Cardenas, Aldo, Cardona, Julián, Cardozo García, Isabel Cristina, Crespo, Rodrigo, da Rocha, José Bento, de Bièvre, Bert, Díaz González, José David, Estévez, Walkiria, Hernandez, Daniela, Gamez Hernandez, Luis, García, Carlos M., Gordillo, Francisco, Klemz, Claudio, Mansur, Hendrik, Medina, Galo, Méndez, Paola, Mercado, Eduardo, Rojas, Oscar, Sánchez Guerra, Mariella, Stafford, Louise, Tiepolo, Gilberto, Toral, Eduardo, Vinces, Vanessa, Zhang, Haijiang

“…•We surveyed costs of municipal-scale collective-action watershed investment programs.•Administrative and transaction costs on average account for over…”
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Forest impact on floods due to extreme rainfall and snowmelt in four Latin American environments 1: Field data analysis by Bathurst, James C., Iroumé, Andrés, Cisneros, Felipe, Fallas, Jorge, Iturraspe, Rodolfo, Novillo, Marcelo Gaviño, Urciuolo, Adriana, Bièvre, Bert de, Borges, Verónica Guerrero, Coello, Cristian, Cisneros, Pedro, Gayoso, Jorge, Miranda, Miriam, Ramírez, Marco

“…► Flood peak data are analyzed for four focus catchments in Latin America. ► Forest cover is unlikely to reduce peak discharges generated by extreme rainfall…”
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High-resolution hydrometeorological data from a network of headwater catchments in the tropical Andes by Ochoa-Tocachi, Boris F., Buytaert, Wouter, Antiporta, Javier, Acosta, Luis, Bardales, Juan D., Célleri, Rolando, Crespo, Patricio, Fuentes, Paola, Gil-Ríos, Junior, Guallpa, Mario, Llerena, Carlos, Olaya, Dimas, Pardo, Pablo, Rojas, Gerver, Villacís, Marcos, Villazón, Mauricio, Viñas, Paúl, De Bièvre, Bert

“…This article presents a hydrometeorological dataset from a network of paired instrumented catchments, obtained by participatory monitoring through a…”
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Comment on “Human impacts on headwater fluvial systems in the northern and central Andes” (Carol P. Harden, Geomorphology 79, 249–263) by Buytaert, Wouter, De Bièvre, Bert, Celleri, Rolando, Cisneros, Felipe, Wyseure, Guido, Deckers, Seppe

“…The high altitude grasslands of the tropical Andes, known as páramo, are a very fragile and unique ecosystem. Despite increasing human activities, many of its…”
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Linking hydrological, infinite slope stability and land-use change models through GIS for assessing the impact of deforestation on slope stability in high Andean watersheds by Vanacker, Veerle, Vanderschaeghe, Michiel, Govers, Gerard, Willems, Edith, Poesen, Jean, Deckers, Jozef, De Bievre, Bert

“…In the Ecuadorian Andes, episodic slope movements comprising shallow rotational and translational slides and rapid flows of debris and soil material are…”
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Night Irrigation Reduction for Water Saving in Medium-Sized Systems by De Bièvre, Bert, Alvarado, Andrés, Timbe, Luis, Célleri, Rolando, Feyen, Jan

“…In many medium-sized irrigation systems water is wasted during the night because demand is low and supply is not reduced accordingly. A hydrodynamic model was…”
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