Welcome to the project website of the RESPECT research unit.
Latest publications
- Urgilés, G.; Celleri, R.; Trachte, K.; Bendix, J. & Orellana-Alvear, J. (2021): Clustering of Rainfall Types Using Micro Rain Radar and LaserDisdrometer Observations in the Tropical Andes. Remote Sensing 13(5), 1-22.
- Homeier, J. & Leuschner, C. (2021): Factors controlling the productivity of tropical Andean forests: climate and soil are more important than tree diversity. Biogeosciences 18(4), 1524-1541.
- Pierick, K.; Leuschner, C. & Homeier, J. (2021): Topography as a factor driving small‐scale variation in tree fine root traits and root functional diversity in a species‐rich tropical montane forest. New Phytologist 230(1), 129-138.
Latest datasets
- Homeier, J. (2021): Leaf trait variation in species-rich tropical Andean forests_52species. Available online (http://www.tropicalmountainforest.org/data_pre.do?citid=1926) from DFG-FOR816dw.
- Bendix, J. & Dobbermann, M. (2021): Climate station data Laipuna Valley Thies station - 2020. Available online (http://www.tropicalmountainforest.org/data_pre.do?citid=1925) from DFG-FOR816dw.
- Raffelsbauer, V. & Bräuning, A. (2021): Dendrometerdata Laipuna Eriotheca 949 5/2014-10/2020. Available online (http://www.tropicalmountainforest.org/data_pre.do?citid=1924) from DFG-FOR816dw.
Publications knowledge transfer
- Bogner, F.; Bendix, J. & Beck, E. 2019: El Bosque Tropical de Montaña - Hotspot de Biodiversidad. (Naturaleza y Cultura Internacional, (Loja, Ecuador).
- Beck, E.; Knoke, T.; Farwig, N.; Breuer, L.; Siddons, D. & Bendix, J. 2017: Landscape Restoration, Sustainable Land Use and Cross-scale Monitoring of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions. A Science-directed Approach for South Ecuador. (Universität Bayreuth).
- Bogner, F.; Bendix, J. & Beck, E. 2016: Biodiversity Hotspot - Tropical Mountain Rainforest. (NCI Foundation, Ecuador).
