ARTICLE: Do mixing models with different input requirement yield similar streamflow source contributions? Case study: A tropical montane catchment

We are happy to share a new scientific article published by Giovanny Mosquera, one of our researchers and member of the Instituto Biósfera. The article was developed in collaboration with researchers from Universidad de Cuenca and Universidad de Costa Rica. This article has been published in the journal Hydrological Processes, Q1 in Water Science and Technology. This study not only increases the hydrological knowledge on streamflow generation in páramo catchments with the presence of lakes/lagoons, but also presents a comparison of geochemical mixing models of different cost and mathematical complexity that allow determining the sources of water (precipitation, soils, springs, lakes) contributing to streamflow. Through this comparison, it is shown that a low cost and mathematical complexity model provides similar process-based understanding of páramo hydrology than a more complex and costly model. These findings indicate that monitoring costs can be substantially reduced in future hydrological assessments in the páramo, so that more sites can be monitored and investigated.