Overcoming the Tropical Andes publication divide: Insights from local researchers on challenges and solutions

• Jose W. Valdez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jose W. Valdez, Lucía Castro Vergara

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jose.valdez@idiv.de (JWV); lcastro@conservacionamazonica.org (LCV)

  Affiliations German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2690-9952

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• Lucía Castro Vergara ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jose W. Valdez, Lucía Castro Vergara

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jose.valdez@idiv.de (JWV); lcastro@conservacionamazonica.org (LCV)

  Affiliation Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica ‐ ACCA, Miraflores, Lima, Perú

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5989-0104

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• Gabriela Orihuela,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica ‐ ACCA, Miraflores, Lima, Perú

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• Miguel Fernandez

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States of Ameirca, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia

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