All Stories

  1. How aquatic insect communities organise and interact in Andean rivers and lakes.

    Article • Ecological Informatics, August 2026, Elsevier

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  2. Improving satellite rainfall maps for the Ecuador–Peru border using machine learning

    Article • Hydrology, March 2026, MDPI AG

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  3. How recent river flows shape stream insect diversity in a remote Andean catchment.

    Article • Biology, January 2026, MDPI AG

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  4. Using River Insect Traits to Accurately Assess River Habitat Health

    Article • Ecological Informatics, December 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Gonzalo Sotomayor, Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  5. Understanding How Water Mixes in Tropical Andean Mountain Lakes

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, August 2025, Wiley

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  6. Comparing taxonomic and functional diversity measures in Andean stream invertebrates

    Article • Biology, June 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr. Gonzalo Sotomayor, Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  7. How aquatic insect communities change over time in Ecuador’s high Andean lakes

    Article • Hydrobiologia, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  8. Estimating the Maximum Depth of Andean Lakes

    Article • Water, December 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  9. Estimating the evaporation rate from high mountain tropical lakes upon the use of natural isotopes

    Article • Hydrological Sciences Journal, August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  10. Bathymetric modelling of tropical lakes.

    Article • Water, April 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  11. Choosing the best functional diversity metric for river health with aquatic insects

    Article • Ecological Indicators, July 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez, Dr. Gonzalo Sotomayor

  12. How river types and human activities shape stream life in the high Andes of Ecuador

    Article • Water, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  13. Occurrence Prediction of Riffle Beetles (Coleoptera: Elmidae) in a Tropical Andean Basin of Ecuador Using Species Distribution Models

    Article • Biology, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez, Dr. Gonzalo Sotomayor

  14. Testing a non-commercial powerful code to model a complex drainage catchment

    Article • Water, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  15. Water chemistry variation in tropical high‐mountain lakes on old volcanic bedrocks

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, May 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  16. A simple way to include measurement uncertainty in river flow modelling

    Article • Water, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  17. Retrieval of Simultaneous Water‐Level Changes in Small Lakes With InSAR

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  18. Implications of macroinvertebrate taxonomic resolution for freshwater assessments using functional traits: The Paute River Basin (Ecuador) case

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, September 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez, Dr. Gonzalo Sotomayor

  19. Spatiotemporal change of water level in ungauged high-altitude tropical lakes: a DInSAR approach

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  20. Habitat Suitability Curves for Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of Tropical Andean Rivers

    Article • Water, September 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  21. Community structure and functional feeding groups of macroinvertebrates in pristine Andean streams under different vegetation cover

    Article • Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology, July 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  22. Multivariate-statistics based selection of a benthic macroinvertebrate index for assessing water quality in the Paute River basin (Ecuador)

    Article • Ecological Indicators, April 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez, Dr. Gonzalo Sotomayor

  23. Improving Water Management Education across the Latin America and Caribbean Region

    Article • Water, November 2019, MDPI AG

    Long Ho, Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  24. Climate change assessment of growth patterns of a fascinating Andean tree: Polylepis reticulata

    Article • IAWA Journal, January 2019, Brill

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  25. Hydrological influences on aquatic communities at the mesohabitat scale in high Andean streams of southern Ecuador

    Article • Ecohydrology, September 2018, Wiley

    Diego Vimos, Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  26. Water quality assessment with emphasis in parameter optimisation using pattern recognition methods and genetic algorithm

    Article • Water Research, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez, Dr. Gonzalo Sotomayor

  27. WEAP21 based modelling under climate change considerations for a semi-arid region in southern-central Chile

    Article • MASKANA, December 2017, Universidad de Cuenca

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  28. Geomorphology of lakes belonging to the Cajas National Park, Ecuador

    Article • Water Resources Research, August 2017, Wiley

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  29. https://publicaciones.ucuenca.edu.ec/ojs/index.php/maskana/article/view/1189

    Article • MASKANA, June 2017, Universidad de Cuenca

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  30. Crustáceos bentónicos y macrófitos como indicadores de calidad ecológica en los lagos de los Andes Australes de Ecuador

    Article • MASKANA, June 2017, Universidad de Cuenca

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  31. Secondary production of caddisflies reflects environmental heterogeneity among tropical Andean streams

    Article • Hydrobiologia, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  32. Challenges for a sustainable management of Ecuadorian water resources

    Article • Sustainability of Water Quality and Ecology, September 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  33. Prediction limits of a catchment hydrological model using different estimates of ETp

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, May 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  34. Aplicabilidad de los modelos NAM y DBM para estimar caudales en subcuencas alto andinas de Ecuador

    Article • MASKANA, December 2013, Universidad de Cuenca

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  35. Modeling the unsaturated flow associated with a border irrigation event on an alfalfa plot

    Article • MASKANA, June 2013, Universidad de Cuenca

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  36. Parameter sensitivity analysis and prediction error in field-scale NO3-N modelling

    Article • Agricultural Water Management, August 2012, Elsevier

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  37. Modeling hydrological consequences of climate and land use change - Progress and Challenges

    Article • MASKANA, December 2011, Universidad de Cuenca

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  38. On the assessment of water resources model predictions

    Article • MASKANA, June 2011, Universidad de Cuenca

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  39. Modeling of Hydrological Processes Using Unstructured and Irregular Grids: 2D Groundwater Application

    Article • Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, February 2011, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  40. La clasificación de universidades como herramienta de gestión universitaria

    Article • MASKANA, December 2010, Universidad de Cuenca

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  41. Modelación hidrológica de una microcuenca Altoandina ubicada en el Austro Ecuatoriano

    Article • MASKANA, December 2010, Universidad de Cuenca

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  42. Rainfall-runoff modelling of a rocky catchment with limited data availability: Defining prediction limits

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, June 2010, Elsevier

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  43. How uncertainty affects river flow predictions in advanced hydrological models

    Article • Water Resources Management, August 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith J Beven, Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  44. Using soft data to improve hydrological model predictions congruence

    Article • Hydrological Processes, January 2008, Wiley

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  45. Assessment of the effects of DEM gridding on the predictions of basin runoff using MIKE SHE and a modelling resolution of 600m

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, February 2007, Elsevier

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  46. Potential Evapotranspiration for the Distributed Modeling of Belgian Catchments

    Article • Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, February 2004, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  47. Effect of potential evapotranspiration estimates on effective parameters and performance of the MIKE SHE-code applied to a medium-size catchment

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, January 2003, Elsevier

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  48. Assessing the grid size implications on distributed hydrological modelling with the MIKE SHE model

    Article • Hydrological Processes, January 2002, Wiley

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  49. How different evapotranspiration methods affect river modelling accuracy

    Article • Water Resources Management, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  50. How a distributed hydrological model performs in a Belgian river basin

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, March 2000, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez