Analysis of the maps showed that the highest concentration of endemic birds and mammals was along a narrow band of the Andes mountains, between 2500 and 3000m above sea level. Endemic amphibian ...

You don’t necessarily need two years and legs of iron to get a good look at the Andes. You just need a sense ... marked by rain, fog, and wind, but its wildness is a large part of what makes ...

Figure 1: Tectonic map of the Andean plate margin along the ... the maximum elevation and buoyancy stress contrasts in the Andes must be a consequence of latitudinal variations in the coefficient ...