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1 July – 31 August 2024

Climate sensitivity of natural hazards processes in mountain regions: A fuzzy logic approach

Cryosphere–groundwater connectivity is a missing link in the mountain water cycle

Elevation-dependent biases of raw and bias-adjusted EURO-CORDEX regional climate models in the European Alps

Harnessing solar power in the Alps: A study on the financial viability of mountain PV systems

Mountain Tourism Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Waste Management: The Case of Everest in Nepal

On the feasibility of glacier preservation

Performance assessment of indicators of a multi-hazards early warning system in an urban mountain region

People working with nature: a theoretical perspective on the co-production of Nature’s Contributions to People

Relational approaches to sustainability transformations: walking together in a world of many worlds

Review of indicators for mountain ecosystem services: Are the most frequently used also the best?

Settlement Systems in Mountain Regions: A Research Gap?

Snow cover phenology dataset over global mountain regions from 2000 to 2023

Visitors’ relations to recreational facilities and attractions in a large vulnerable mountain region in Norway: Unpacking the roles of tourists and locals

Cover image by Zoshua Colah

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1 – 30 June 2024

Assessment of hydrological systems associated with groundwater discharges in arid high mountain environments of the Argentine Andes

Atmospheric black carbon observations and its valley-mountain dynamics: Eastern cordillera of the central Andes of Peru

Bayesian Approach to Estimate Proglacial Lake Volume (BE‐GLAV)

[Editorial: Science of The Total Environment Special Issue] Climate change in cold regions

Current Status and Issues of Mountain Geoparks in Japan

Dataset for Automated Snow Cover Detection on Mountain Glaciers Using Space-Borne Imagery

Disasters and Reconstruction in a Mountain Tourism Area: A Case from 2015 Nepal Earthquake in Solukhumbu, Nepal

Disaster effects of climate change in High-Mountain Asia: State of art and scientific challenges

[Book chapter] Ecosystem Services and Livestock Systems in Mountain Areas

Engaging diverse knowledge holders in adaptation research

Enhancing vulnerability assessment through spatially explicit modeling of mountain social-ecological systems exposed to multiple environmental hazards

Exploring beneath the retreating ice: swath bathymetry reveals sub- to proglacial processes and longevity of future alpine glacial lakes

Global impacts of heat and water stress on food production and severe food insecurity

Human and Wildlife Use of Mountain Glacier Habitat in Western North America

Lessons from Ethiopian coffee landscapes for global conservation in a post-wild world

Mapping local climates in highly heterogeneous mountain regions: Interpolation of meteorological station data vs. downscaling of macroclimate grids

Navigating tensions in climate change-related planned relocation

Pronounced changes of subterranean biodiversity patterns along a Late Pleistocene glaciation gradient

Reframing mountain destinations from the perspective of tourist mobility: hub-and-spoke travel patterns

Same, but different: similar states of forest structure in temperate mountain regions of Europe despite different social-ecological forest disturbance regimes

Streamflow seasonality in a snow-dwindling world

[Report] Sustainable Development Report 2024: The SDGs and the UN Summit of the Future

The Andes–Amazon–Atlantic pathway: A foundational hydroclimate system for social–ecological system sustainability

The changing pattern of global teleconnection and the seasonal precipitation in the High Mountain Asia region

[Report] International Science Council: The future of research evaluation: A synthesis of current debates and developments

The impact of glacier retreat on Andean high wetlands: Assessing the geochemical transfer and sediment provenance in the proglacial area of Huayna-Potosí (Bolivia)

The needed link between open science and science diplomacy—A Latin American perspective

Transformative foresight for diverse futures: the Seeds of Good Anthropocenes initiative

Uncertain Pathways to a Future Safe Climate

Water quality assessment methods of the highland Andean rivers: A scoping systematic review

[Report] WMO Hydromet Gap Report 2024

Cover image by Jonatan Pie

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1 April – 31 May 2024

A 20-Year Ecotone Study of Pacific Northwest Mountain Forest Vulnerability to Changing Snow Conditions

A Crisis of ‘Stranded Assets’ Covid-19 Border Closures and Climate Change in a Yak-herding Community in Eastern Nepal

[Policy Brief] A Decade of Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Lessons from the United Nations Environment Programme

A meta-analysis of SES framework case studies: Identifying dyad and triad archetypes 

Adaptation to climate change in the mountain regions of Central Asia: A systematic literature review

Adapting to transboundary risks in mountain regions

An amplified groundwater recharge response to climate change

Analysis of rapid snow and ice cover loss in mountain glaciers of arid and semi-arid regions using remote sensing data

Anthropogenic impacts on mud and organic carbon cycling

Assessing landslide damming susceptibility in Central Asia

Assessing Water Management Strategies in Data-Scarce Mountain Regions under Uncertain Climate and Socio-Economic Changes

Challenges in assessing and managing multi-hazard risks: A European stakeholders perspective

Characteristics and changes of glacial lakes and outburst floods

Climate-competition tradeoffs shape the range limits of European beech and Norway spruce along elevational gradients across the Carpathian Mountains 

Climate velocities and species tracking in global mountain regions

[Report] Alpine Convention Alpine Climate Board: “Closing the gap on climate action Building new rope teams to support climate-neutral & resilient living in the Alps”

Declining groundwater storage expected to amplify mountain streamflow reductions in a warmer world

Equity and justice should underpin the discourse on tipping points

Ethnoecological perspectives on environmental stewardship: Tenets and basis of reciprocity in Gitxsan and nłeʔkepmx (Nlaka’pamux) Territories

Evaluating the impact of climatic changes on streamflow in headwater mountain catchments with varying human pressure. An example from the Tatra Mountains (Western Carpathians)

Future scenarios of albedo and radiative forcing resulting from changes in snow depth in Austria, EGUsphere [preprint], 2024.

Global change research for a more secure world

Incorporating diverse values of nature in decision-making—theory and practice

Increasing Trust in Climate Vulnerability Projections

International donors as agents of policy transfer in influencing water legislation: The adoption of the river basin principle by transition economies in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia

Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture

Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography

Modelling the effects of potential climate change on the dynamics of multi-species mountain pastures: A case study in Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy

More intense and less elevation-dependent hydrological intensity from 2000 to 2015 in the high mountains

Mountain streamflow threatened by irreversible simulated groundwater declines

Pathways from research to sustainable development: Insights from ten research projects in sustainability and resilience

Preconditioning of mountain permafrost towards degradation detected by electrical resistivity

Remote sensing of mountain snow from space: status and recommendations

Risk perception and vulnerability of communities in Nepal to transboundary glacial lake outburst floods from Tibet, China

Roadside disturbance promotes plant communities with arbuscular mycorrhizal associations in mountain regions worldwide

Shaking up Assumptions: Earthquakes Have Rarely Triggered Andean Glacier Lake Outburst Floods

Status quo in transboundary waters: Unpacking non-decision making and non-action

Surface and subsurface flow of a glacierised catchment in the cold-arid region of Ladakh, Trans-Himalaya

The exposure of the world’s mountains to global change drivers

[Report] The next frontier for climate change science: insights from the authors of the IPCC 6th assessment report on knowledge gaps and priorities for research

Understanding the Heterogeneity of Swiss Alpine Summer Farms for Tailored Agricultural Policies: A Typology  https://doi.org/10.1659/mrd.2023.00041

Uppermost global tree elevations are primarily limited by low temperature or insufficient moisture

[Report] U.S. Geological Survey Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center Science Highlights for Fiscal Year 2023

Volcanoes, evolving landscapes, and biodiversity in Neotropical mountains

Yet Another Transition? Mountain Areas’ Conflicts and Trajectories Facing Socio-Ecological Changes

Cover image by Nitin Karolla

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1 February – 31 March 2024

100 years of monitoring in the Swiss National Park reveals overall decreasing rock glacier velocities

A better knowledge is possible: Transforming environmental science for justice and pluralism

An assessment of gridded precipitation products over High Mountain Asia

Climate change and tourism geographies

Climate change is poised to alter mountain stream ecosystem processes via organismal phenological shifts

Evaluating ecosystem protection and fragmentation of the world’s major mountain regions

Evidence of human influence on Northern Hemisphere snow loss

Future directions for river carbon biogeochemistry observations

Getting your money’s worth: Testing the value of data for hydrological model calibration

Global emergent responses of stream microbial metabolism to glacier shrinkage

Higher temperature sensitivity of retrogressive thaw slump activity in the Arctic compared to the Third Pole

Human-triggered magnification of erosion rates in European Alps since the Bronze Age

Hydrological regimes and evaporative flux partitioning at the climatic ends of High Mountain Asia

[Special Issue] Impacts of Global Change on Protective Forests in Mountain Areas

Integrating socio-hydrology, and peace and conflict research

Inviting a decolonial praxis for future imaginaries of nature: Introducing the Entangled Time Tree

Managing climate change challenges to water security: Community water governance in Ethiopia and Nepal

Mapping open spaces in Swiss mountain regions through consensus-building and machine learning

Participatory art and geography: Politics, publics, and space

Plant trait and vegetation data along a 1314 m elevation gradient with fire history in Puna grasslands, Perú

Space-time analysis of the relationship between landslides occurrence, rainfall variability and ENSO in the Tropical Andean Mountain region in Colombia

The climate sciences need representation from the Global South

The evolution of “riskscapes”: 100 years of climate change and mountaineering activity in the Lake Louise area of the Canadian Rockies

The geolocation of features on information surfaces and the use of the open and FAIR data principles in the mountain landscape domain and geoheritage

The global distribution of plants used by humans

The hauntology of climate change: glacier retreat and dark tourism

The old and the new on threats to high-mountain lakes in the Alps: A comprehensive examination with future research directions

Tropical tropospheric aerosol sources and chemical composition observed at high altitude in the Bolivian Andes

Understanding visitor attitudes towards the timed-entry reservation system in Rocky Mountain National Park: Contemporary managed access as a social-ecological system

Winter snow deficit was a harbinger of summer 2022 socio-hydrologic drought in the Po Basin, Italy

[Report] WMO State of the Global Climate 2023

Working with the tensions of transdisciplinary research: A review and agenda for the future of knowledge co-production in the Anthropocene

Cover image by Max Up

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1 – 31 January 2024

A random forest approach to quality-checking automatic snow-depth sensor measurementsA random forest approach to quality-checking automatic snow-depth sensor measurements

An exploratory study of stakeholder views on the sustainable development of mountain tourism

Applying assessments of adaptive capacity to inform natural-resource management in a changing climate

Atmospheric black carbon in a key location of the Chilean Central Andes: Identifying patterns, sources, and potential impacts

Can traditional management practices help mountain livestock farms in the Spanish Pyrenees cope with climate change?

Climate change is threatening mountain grasslands and their cultural ecosystem services

Community-Based Institutions Shape Cheese Co-Production in a French Alpine Valley

Connecting research and practice to enhance the evolutionary potential of species under climate change

Differentiated socio-ecological system approach for vulnerability and adaptation assessment in the Central Himalaya

Elevation and temperature are strong predictors of long-term carbon accumulation across tropical Andean mountain peatlands

Elevational range sizes of woody plants increase with climate variability in the Tropical Andes

Geographic and taxonomic variation in adaptive capacity among mountain-dwelling small mammals: implications for conservation status and actions.

How much we know about precipitation climatology over Tianshan Mountains––the Central Asian water tower

Humid and cold forest connections in South America between the eastern Andes and the southern Atlantic coast during the LGM

Idiosyncratic patterns of local species richness and turnover define global biodiversity hotspots

Impacts of different boundary layer parameterization schemes on simulation of meteorology over Himalaya

Linking evolutionary potential to extinction risk: applications and future directions

Linking the future likelihood of large fires to occur on mountain slopes with fuel connectivity and topography

Long-Term Variability and Trends in Snow Depth and Cover Days Throughout Iranian Mountain Ranges

Many mountain paths: Perceiving change in the management of community forests in the Hindu Kush Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India

Non-material contributions of nature expressed by former tourists of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

[Book chapter] “On the supposed marginality of mountain areas”

Optimising the distribution system of existing scarce water supply in a mountain indigenous community

Picturing finitude: Photography of mountain glaciers as a multiple practice of dealing with environmental loss

Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally

Recent Tangible Natural Variability of Monsoonal Orographic Rainfall in the Eastern Himalayas

Restoring Mountain Ecosystems: Challenges, case studies and recommendations for implementing the UN Decade Principles for Mountain Ecosystem Restoration.

Scenarios in IPCC assessments: lessons from AR6 and opportunities for AR7

Six Consecutive Seasons of High-Resolution Mountain Snow Depth Maps From Satellite Stereo Imagery

Spatio-temporal variability in the strength, directionality, and relative importance of climate on occupancy and population densities in a philopatric mammal, the American pika (Ochotona princeps).

Social dimensions of adaptation to climate change in rangelands: a systematic literature review

The ecological and geographic dynamics of extinction: Niche modeling and ecological marginalization

[Book chapter] The role of culture in climate change adaptation: Insights from two mountain regions in Kenya

Transnational conservation to anticipate future plant shifts in Europe

Understanding local adaptation to prepare populations for climate change

[Report] Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in High Mountain Areas of the Andean Region: Regional Synthesis

Cover image by Vince Veras

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1 – 31 December 2023

[Report] 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2023/2024

A network-based normalized impact measure reveals successful periods of scientific discovery across disciplines 

Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil-based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta-analysis 

[Report] Cascading climate risks: strategic recommendations for European resilience

Climate researchers need support to become scientist-communicators

Collaboration between women helps close the gender gap in ice core science

Deep learning in hydrology and water resources disciplines: concepts, methods, applications, and research directions

Distinct dynamics in mountain watersheds: Exploring mercury and microplastic Pollution—Unraveling the influence of atmospheric deposition, human activities, and Hydrology

Diurnal temperature range as a key predictor of plants’ elevation ranges globally

[Book] Glacier Nature and Culture

How language can be a path away from neo-colonialism in geoscience

Hunting of sika deer over six decades does not restore forest regeneration

Impacts, carbon effects, and forecasts for cropland expansion in the Northern Tianshan Mountain Economic Zone

Improving climate model skill over High Mountain Asia by adapting snow cover parameterization to complex-topography areas

[Report] Leave No Mountain Behind: The Synthesis Series – Scaling ecosystem restoration and protection: challenges and promising solutions

Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming

Measuring ecosystem services and ecological sensitivity for comprehensive conservation in Giant Panda National Park

[Report] Mountains in National Adaptation Plans – A short analysis

[Report] Restoring mountain ecosystems: Challenges, case studies and recommendations for implementing the UN Decade Principles for Mountain Ecosystem Restoration 

[Report] Safeguarding Mountain Social-Ecological Systems (Volume 1)

Shifting hotspots: Climate change projected to drive contractions and expansions of invasive plant abundance habitats

[Report] The Global Tipping Points Report

The Matterhorn, an emblematic mountain in Switzerland, the time scales of a geomorphosite

[Book] The Mountain and the Politics of Representation

The time and place of origin of South Caucasian languages: insights into past human societies, ecosystems and human population genetics

[Report] The WMO State of the Climate Report 2023

[Report] Tropical Glaciers and Climate Change, Perspectives from NDCs and adaptation: Analysis and proposals based on the scenarios of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia

What climbing means…: The diversity of climbers in 2020

Cover image by Arno Senoner

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1 – 30 November 2023

A gradual increase of aerosol pollution in the Third Pole during the past four decades: Implication for regional climate change

Accelerating evidence-informed decision-making in conservation implementing agencies through effective monitoring, evaluation, and learning

Africa’s First Alpine and Transboundary Long-Term Socioecological Research Platform

Alien Mammals in the Ecosystems of the Central Part of the North Caucasus

Analysing the Transformation of Sports Practices in Less-Developed Mountains Based on Huts Attendance Data. Application to the Valais Alps

[Book] Climate Change on Mountains: Reviving Humboldt’s Approach to Science

Community forest governance and synergies among carbon, biodiversity and livelihoods

Development of a drone-based ground-penetrating radar system for efficient and safe 3D and 4D surveying of alpine glaciers

[Book] European Glacial Landscapes

Exploring Alternative Futures in the Anthropocene

High-Density Integrated GNSS and Hydrologic Monitoring Network for Short-Scale Hydrogeodesy in High Mountain Watersheds

Hotspot and conservation gap analysis of endemic vascular plants in the Altai Mountain Country based on a new global conservation assessment

Impactos culturales de la desaparición de los glaciares de Aneto y Maladeta (Cultural impacts from the disappearance of the Aneto and Maladeta glaciers) – in Spanish

Levers for transformative nature-based adaptation initiatives in the Alps

Mapping high-altitude peatlands to inform a landscape conservation strategy in the Andes of northern Peru

Mapping Industrial Influences on Earth’s Ecology

Mountain agropastoralism: traditional practices, institutions and pressures in the Indian Trans-Himalaya of Ladakh

Mountains of inequality: encountering the politics of climate adaptation across the Himalaya

[Report] On the future of mountain areas: Mountain areas Rural development – Reflections on regional and mountain area development (BAB Report 006, in German).

Quantifying patch size distributions of forest disturbances in protected areas across the European Alps

Red panda tourism gives hope in the mid-mountain range of the Eastern Himalaya, yet inappropriate practices may lead to failure

Risk assessment of mountain tourism on the Western Sichuan Plateau, China

Shifted sediment-transport regimes by climate change and amplified hydrological variability in cryosphere-fed rivers

[Book chapter] Snow leopard conservation in Bhutan

[Report] State of the Cryosphere 2023

[Report] The Alpine Club of Canada – The State of the Mountains Report

[Report] The Canadian Mountain Assessment

The Greater Midlands—a mid-elevation centre of floristic endemism in summer-rainfall eastern South Africa

[Book chapter] The Mountain Regions of the United Arab Emirates: An Ecosystem Perspective

Tourism diversification paths in ski mid-mountain territories: any transformations?

[Report] World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) Global Glacier Change Bulletin No. 5

[Report] What can communities teach us? Indigenous and local knowledge for mountain conservation

Cover image by Rycardo Rycardo

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1-31 October 2023

A Review of Karakoram Glacier Anomalies in High Mountains Asia

A single range-expanding species reshapes alpine ecosystems and their belowground diversity

An introduction to the Annals of Glaciology special issue on the ‘International Glaciological Society Global Seminar Series: New Research Directions’

Advancing Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Large Landscape Conservation Through the Social Sciences: A Research Agenda for the Yellowstone to Yukon Region

Analysing the impact of climate and social changes on small farms in the Italian Alps: The importance of the local scale

Being Paramuno: Peasant World-Making Practices in the Paramos [High Moorlands] of the Colombian Andes

Building mountain biodiversity: Geological and evolutionary processes

Climate change accelerates ecosystem restoration in the mountain forests of Central Europe

Climate Variability and Glacier Evolution at Selected Sites Across the World: Past Trends and Future Projections

Climbing through Climate Change in the Canadian Rockies: Guides’ Experiences of Route Transformation on Mt. Athabasca

Common lands, landscape management and rural development: A case study in a mountain village in northwest Portugal

Contrasting impacts of climate change on protection forests of the Italian Alps

Cultural landscapes of the central mountains of Palestine

Development of a behaviour pattern-based testing approach for coupled socioeconomic and environmental models

Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment

Fostering transdisciplinary research for sustainability in the Global South: Pathways to impact for funding programmes

Fostering Transdisciplinary Research Through Citizen Science: The Project Val d’Hérens

Land Surface Modeling in the Himalayas: On the Importance of Evaporative Fluxes for the Water Balance of a High-Elevation Catchment

Mountain protective forests under threat? an in-depth review of global change impacts on their protective effect against natural hazards

Pervasive Permafrost Thaw Exacerbates Future Risk of Water Shortage Across the Tibetan Plateau

Projected Changes in Mountain Precipitation Under CO2-Induced Warmer Climate

Role of Highland–Lowland Linkage as a Coping Strategy for Global Environmental and Socioeconomic Changes: The Case of Southeast Ethiopia

The geography of climate and the global patterns of species diversity

[Policy Brief] The importance of mountain development in the EU

The role of values in future scenarios: what types of values underpin (un)sustainable and (un)just futures?

The water outflow from neighbouring mountain catchments in the Polish Carpathians: A comparative analysis

Thru-hikers’ attitudes about potential management actions for interactions with grizzly bears along the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail

[Policy Brief] Towards systemic disaster risk reduction in mountains

Tracking succession by means of 3D scans of plant communities in a glacier forefield to infer assembly processes

Transitioning to sustainable academic conferences needs more experimentation and reflection

Cover image by Airam Dato-on.

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1-30 September 2023

A comprehensive and version-controlled database of glacial lake outburst floods in High Mountain AsiaA comprehensive and version-controlled database of glacial lake outburst floods in High Mountain Asia

An interdisciplinary framework for evaluating 19th century landscape paintings for ecological research

Atmosphere–cryosphere interactions during the last phase of the Last Glacial Maximum (21 ka) in the European Alps

Attractive Landscape Features as Drivers for Sustainable Mountain Tourism Experiences

Capacities for resilience: persisting, adapting and transforming through bricolage

Climate change impacts and adaptation to permafrost change in High Mountain Asia: a comprehensive review

Climbing the Alps in a warming world: Perspective of climate change impacts on high mountain areas influences alpinists’ behavioural adaptations

Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice

Contrasting impacts of climate change on protection forests of the Italian Alps

Compositional shifts of alpine plant communities across the high Andes

Early warning system for ice collapses and river blockages in the Sedongpu Valley, southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Exploring the ability of the variable-resolution Community Earth System Model to simulate cryospheric–hydrological variables in High Mountain Asia 

Fit for the future? Alpine plant responses to climatic stress over two decades of seed bank storage

Five steps towards transformative valuation of nature

Forests on the move: Tracking climate-related treeline changes in mountains of the northeastern United States

Futuremaking in a disaster zone: Everyday climate change adaptation amongst Quechua women in the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca

[Report] Global Sustainable Development Report 2023: Times of Crisis, Times of Change: Science for Accelerating Transformations to Sustainable Development

Heritage-making, landscapes, and experiences in tension in the Southern Andes mountains, Argentina

[Report] IPBES Invasive Alien Species Assessment: Summary for Policymakers

Integrating geographic data and the SCS-CN method with LSTM networks for enhanced runoff forecasting in a complex mountain basin

[Special Issue] Integrative Water Resources Research and Management in the Andes

Lost in a haze or playing to partners’ strengths? Learning to collaborate in three transdisciplinary European Living Labs

Mass Movement Hazard and Exposure in the Himalaya

Nepal Himalaya offers considerable potential for pumped storage hydropower

Plant diversity and composition vary with elevation on two equatorial high mountains in Uganda: baselines for assessing the influence of climate change

Review article: Snow and ice avalanches in high mountain Asia – scientific, local and indigenous knowledge

Spatial and temporal patterns in the chemistry of temperate low order Andean streams: effects of landscape gradients and hydrology

The pitfalls of plural valuation

The political context of change in transboundary freshwater agreements

Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC

Transdisciplinary learning as a key leverage for sustainability transformations

[Report] United In Science 2023: Sustainable development edition. A multi-organization high-level compilation of the latest weather-, climate and water-related sciences and services for sustainable development

Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Explore the Intention of Farmers to Use Livestock Protection Measures Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Explore the Intention of Farmers to Use Livestock Protection Measures

Cover image by Meriç Dağlı.

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1-31 August 2023

1991–2020 climate normal in the European Alps: focus on high-elevation environments

A Decision Framework for Evaluating the Rocky Mountain Area Wildfire Dispatching System in Colorado 

Aligning social networks and co-designed visions to foster systemic innovation in the Alps 

Application of a system dynamics model to evaluate the implementation of payment for environmental services as a reconversion mechanism in high mountain farming 

Assessment of the attractiveness of material objects of the historical and cultural heritage of the Carpathian region 

Automated streamflow measurements in high-elevation Alpine catchments 

Biodiversity and elevation gradients: Insights on sampling biases across worldwide mountains 

Boost in Visitor Numbers Post COVID-19 Shutdown: Consequences for an Alpine National Park 

Brief communication: The Glacier Loss Day as an indicator of a record-breaking negative glacier mass balance in 2022

Catchment-based sampling of river eDNA integrates terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity of alpine landscapes 

Climate change and health in rural mountain environments: summary of a workshop on knowledge gaps, barriers, and opportunities for action 

Climate change exacerbates snow-water-energy challenges for European ski tourism 

Climate change impacts and adaptation to permafrost change in High Mountain Asia: a comprehensive review

[Report] Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation in High-Mountain Areas of the Andean Region (in Spanish) 

[Book chapter] Compounding Risks and Increased Vulnerabilities: Climate Change, Conflict, and Mobility in East Africa 

Diverse values of nature for sustainability

Downscaling CORDEX Through Deep Learning to Daily 1 km Multivariate Ensemble in Complex Terrain

Enhancing understanding of ecosystem multifunctionality in mountain regions 

Future emergence of new ecosystems caused by glacial retreat

Global knowledge–action networks at the frontlines of sustainability: Insights from five decades of science for action in UNESCO’s World Network of biosphere reserves 

Heritage-making, landscapes, and experiences in tension in the Southern Andes mountains, Argentina 

Global distribution and climatic controls of natural mountain treelines 

Go or grow? Feedbacks between moving slopes and shifting plants in high mountain environments 

Going up the Andes: patterns and drivers of non-native plant invasions across latitudinal and elevational gradients  

Inequitable Gains and Losses from Conservation in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot 

Melting glaciers threaten ice core science on the Tibetan Plateau  

Monitoring of large-scale forest restoration: Evidence of vegetation recovery and reversing chronic ecosystem degradation in the mountain region of Pakistan 

Mountain social-ecological resilience requires transdisciplinarity with Indigenous and local worldviews

Multi-decadal analysis of past winter temperature, precipitation and snow cover data in the European Alps from reanalyses, climate models and observational datasets 

[Book] Mountains Under Pressure (an edited tome published as a Special Issue in Land] 

Multidisciplinary approach to investigate human-forest relationships in southern French Alps: How to estimate the impact of populations on the local mountain wood stock? 

Overlapping land rights and deforestation in Uganda: 20 years of evidence 

Relating the management difficulty to the abandonment rate of traditional mountain vineyards 

River widening in mountain and foothill areas during floods: Insights from a meta-analysis of 51 European Rivers 

Seasonal water storage and release dynamics of bofedal wetlands in the Central Andes 

The case for listing Mountain Ash forests in the Central Highlands of Victoria (Australia) as a Threatened Ecological Community 

Three pathways to better recognize the expertise of Global South researchers 

Toward impact-based monitoring of drought and its cascading hazards 

Two Close-to-Nature Lifestyles, One Benefit for the Cultural Landscape: Comparing Lifestyle Movers and Lifestyle Farmers in the Remote European Eastern Alps 

Cover image by Wonderlane.