Abstract
OPINION article Front. Earth Sci., 10 December 2019Sec. Atmospheric Science Volume 7 - 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00324
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Neotropical Montology Collaboratory and Climate, Clouds and Land Modeling Group, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
We seek to highlight the need for transdisciplinary perspectives to understand how recent and future precipitation changes interact with the socioecological systems of Tropandean mountainscapes
We present results from widely-used climate models, which have contributed to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase Five (CMIP5, Taylor et al, 2012), to highlight the large but uncertain changes in this region
Summary
Neotropical landscapes harbor globally important hotspots of biodiversity (Myers, 2003; Lovejoy and Hanna, 2019) and bolster ancestral cultures that have developed a manufactured landscape. The influence of humans on the local mountainscape dates back much further—indigenous cultures have domesticated cloud forests and opened highland terrains of this region for hunting, gathering, planting, livestock rearing, and other more consumptive activities such as mining and handcrafting metals and fibers. Many of these activities involve the use of fire, the most important tool for Andean treeline ecotone region (ATER) transformation (Sarmiento and Frolich, 2002), which has reshaped local mountainscapes over centuries. We separately present global modeling and political ecological perspectives in order to emphasize the need for research that connects across these disparate scales and disciplines
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