About the Authors

Gabriela S. Yánez-Jácome

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriela S. Yánez-Jácome, Andrés Merino-Viteri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gsyanez@puce.edu.ec (GSY-J); armerino@puce.edu.ec (AM-V)

Affiliation Centro de Estudios Aplicados en Química (CESAQ), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Andrés Merino-Viteri

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriela S. Yánez-Jácome, Andrés Merino-Viteri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gsyanez@puce.edu.ec (GSY-J); armerino@puce.edu.ec (AM-V)

Affiliation Laboratorio de Ecofisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Naturales y Ambientales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Eduardo Rebolledo Monsalve

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Escuela de Gestión Ambiental, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador Sede Esmeraldas, Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Roberto Xavier Supe Tulcan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Ministry of Education, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Laurence Maurice

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation OMP-GET laboratory, Univesité de Toulouse-IRD-CNRS-CNES, Toulouse, France

Hugo Navarrete

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliations Centro de Estudios Aplicados en Química (CESAQ), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Naturales y Ambientales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.