Using data from over 10,000 herbarium specimens, Smithsonian scientists uncover the urgent conservation needs of the plants, ...

Estudio fitogeográfico. (The Plant World of the Peruvian Andes. Phytogeographical Study.) By A. Weberbauer. Second, revised and enlarged edition. Pp. xix + 776 + 43 plates, map in pocket.

The páramo covers slopes above 10,000 feet in elevation all over the Andes Mountains, and acts like a giant sponge absorbing ...

Potatoes are the bookend crops of the garden.  Planted in spring, their harvest is the hallmark of late summer into autumn.

Hunter-gatherers living in South America around 9,000 years ago had a predominantly plant-based diet – challenging the widely held view that these societies were made up of mainly meat eaters ...

HABITAT: These flamingos prefer shallow wetlands at various elevations of the Andes Mountains. Most of these wetlands are endoreic, or “closed” bodies of water that do not drain into the sea, so they ...

Fragile highland ecosystems showed low resilience to fire, which renders them more vulnerable to long-term degradation.

Their teeth are designed to tear through plants and animals. Piranhas lose their teeth regularly, with new, sharp teeth growing in their place. The Andes mountain range is the longest mountain ...

Heliconia plants are beloved for their ornamental ... particularly in the Andes mountain range, where the high-altitude species are most vulnerable. Some of the most at-risk species grow in ...