Ecosystem shows resilience to prolonged human modification
(WorldNews Netherlands)

Cloud forests of Ecuadorian Andes not as pristine as previously thought 16 July 2018 Nineteenth century explorers who visited the cloud forests of the Ecuadorian Andes regularly referred to the landscape as a `pristine` wilderness. What they were, in fact, observing was the recovery on an environment that had previously been heavily cultivated and deforested by the indigenous population for hundreds of years. In an article published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, an international team of researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Open University (UK) and the Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera - CSIC (Spain) throws new light on the...