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    Ecosystem sentinels for climate change? Evidence of wetland cover changes over the last 30 years in the tropical Andes
    (Public Library of Science, 2017) Olivier Dangles; Antoine Rabatel; Martin J. Kraemer; Gabriel Zeballos; Álvaro Soruco; Dean Jacobsen; Fabien Anthelme
    While the impacts of climate change on individual species and communities have been well documented there is little evidence on climate-mediated changes for entire ecosystems. Pristine alpine environments can provide unique insights into natural, physical and ecological response to climate change yet broad scale and long-term studies on these potential 'ecosystem sentinels' are scarce. We addressed this issue by examining cover changes of 1689 high-elevation wetlands (temporarily or perennial water-saturated grounds) in the Bolivian Cordillera Real, a region that has experienced significant warming and glacier melting over the last 30 years. We combined high spatial resolution satellite images from PLEIADES with the long-term images archive from LANDSAT to 1) examine environmental factors (e.g., glacier cover, wetland and watershed size) that affected wetland cover changes, and 2) identify wetlands' features that affect their vulnerability (using habitat drying as a proxy) in the face of climate change. Over the (1984-2011) period, our data showed an increasing trend in the mean wetland total area and number, mainly related to the appearance of wet grassland patches during the wetter years. Wetland cover also showed high inter-annual variability and their area for a given year was positively correlated to precipitation intensities in the three months prior to the image date. Also, round wetlands located in highly glacierized catchments were less prone to drying, while relatively small wetlands with irregularly shaped contours suffered the highest rates of drying over the last three decades. High Andean wetlands can therefore be considered as ecosystem sentinels for climate change, as they seem sensitive to glacier melting. Beyond the specific focus of this study, our work illustrates how satellite-based monitoring of ecosystem sentinels can help filling the lack of information on the ecological consequences of current and changing climate conditions, a common and crucial issue especially in less-developed countries.
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    Estandarización de métodos de cultivo y exposición para estudios de biomonitoreo
    (2006) Gabriel Zeballos; Mauricio Zaballa Romero; A. De la Rocha; Mauricio Julio Maclean Cuadros; Susana del Granado; Rafael Anze; Margot Franken
    En el presente trabajo se sintetizan las experiencias obtenidas para el rediseno y adecuacion de metodos estandarizados para el cultivo y exposicion controlada de Lolium multiflorum, Raphanus sativus, Tradescantia pallida y Vicia faba con el objeto de utilizarlos como bioindicadores activos de calidad del aire en las ciudades de La Paz y El Alto.
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    Unraveling bofedal change and degradation: Multidimensional analysis of pastoral management, local knowledge, and image analysis in Sajama National Park, Bolivia
    (Springer Science+Business Media, 2026) Q. Rosa Isela Meneses; Karina A. Yager; Manuel Prieto; Dan Slayback; Kevin Guzman; Susi Loza Herrera; Gabriel Zeballos; Corinne Valdivia
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    Uso de imágenes satelitales, modelos digitales de elevación y sistemas de información geográfica para caracterizar la dinámica espacial de glaciares y humedales de alta montaña en Bolivia
    (2014) Gabriel Zeballos; Álvaro Soruco; Diego Cusicanqui; Rafael Joffré; Antoine Rabatel
    Debido al cambio climatico y acelerado retroceso glaciar, esta disminuyendo la disponibilidad de agua en los Andes Centrales. En este sentido, los humedales altoandinos destacan por su capacidad de reserva y regulacion hidrologica. Con el fin de comprender mejor sus dinamicas, este estudio plantea un metodo para el analisis espacial de multiples factores que afectan su vulnerabilidad frente al cambio climatico a traves de la variacion de la superficie de glaciares y humedales de la Cordillera Real (Bolivia) empleando imagenes Landsat. El metodo permite relacionar la variacion de estos objetos con factores externos e internos, tales como la variacion de la precipitacion y la propia morfometria fisica de las cuencas de drenaje. Las imagenes se corrigen geometricamente y atmosfericamente previamente a la aplicacion de un algoritmo disenado para la determinacion del area de los objetos. En dicho algoritmo se considera la aplicacion de una clasificacion no supervisada y de indices de diferencia normalizada de vegetacion, de nieve/ hielo, y de agua. Finalmente, se realiza un analisis de regresion lineal multiple, contrastando la dinamica espacial de los humedales con datos de precipitacion acumulada, y datos morfometricos de las cuencas, obtenidos a partir de un mosaico del modelo digital de elevacion - GDEM-Aster V2 (global digital elevation model, version 2, Satelite ASTER). Esta metodologia puede tambien ser empleado con imagenes y modelos digitales de elevacion de mejor resolucion como se espera en siguientes fases del proyecto BIOTHAW.

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