Bristol University Rio Paute Headwaters Expedition
This mixed team (6 British, 5 Ecuadorean), working in co-ordination with the East Anglian Ecuador Cloud Forest Expedition (see 92/6), set out to study aspects of the cloud forest and aquatic ecosystems of the Pulpito valley, headwaters of the Rio Paute in Southern Ecuador, camping at 2,300m-2,400m. Projects included fog drip, fish ecology, amphibians, plant fungi and macro- invertebrates.