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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...