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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-4-47-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-4-47-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
| 
20 Jan 2016
Research article |
| 20 Jan 2016
Storm-triggered landslides in the Peruvian Andes and implications for topography, carbon cycles, and biodiversity
K. E. Clark
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the
Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
now at: Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
A. J. West
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA, USA
R. G. Hilton
Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, UK
G. P. Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science,
Stanford, CA, USA
C. A. Quesada
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
M. R. Silman
Department of Biology and Center for Energy, Environment, and
Sustainability, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
S. S. Saatchi
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA, USA
W. Farfan-Rios
Department of Biology and Center for Energy, Environment, and
Sustainability, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
R. E. Martin
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science,
Stanford, CA, USA
A. B. Horwath
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
now at: Department of Biology, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
K. Halladay
Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the
Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the
Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town,
Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Y. Malhi
Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the
Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Data sets
Landslides Kosñipata Valley, Peru (Clark et al. 2016) K. Clark, J. West, R. Hilton, G. Asner, C. Quesada, M. Silman, S. Saatchi, R. Martin, A. Horwath, K. Halladay, M. New, and Y. Malhi https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.90487bcf16e44c62a677ae33ef95e968
Short summary
The key findings of this paper are that landslides in the eastern Andes of Peru in the Kosñipata Valley rapidly turn over the landscape in ~1320 years, with a rate of 0.076% yr-1. Additionally, landslides were concentrated at lower elevations, due to an intense storm in 2010 accounting for ~1/4 of the total landslide area over the 25-year remote sensing study. Valley-wide carbon stocks were determined, and we estimate that 26 tC km-2 yr-1 of soil and biomass are stripped by landslides.
The key findings of this paper are that landslides in the eastern Andes of Peru in the...
