Articles | Volume 4, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-4-47-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-4-47-2016
Research article
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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, A. J. West, R. G. Hilton, G. P. Asner, C. A. Quesada, M. R. Silman, S. S. Saatchi, W. Farfan-Rios, R. E. Martin, A. B. Horwath, K. Halladay, M. New, and Y. Malhi

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AR by Kathryn Clark on behalf of the Authors (08 Nov 2015)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by Editor) (12 Dec 2015) by Gerard Govers
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ED: Publish as is (22 Dec 2015) by Niels Hovius (Editor)
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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.