Welcome to our April 2021 round-up of new publications! This list, updated each week, contains articles relevant to mountain research that you won’t want to miss this month.
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Please note: The publications listed below may not necessarily have been published this month, but rather have come to our attention at this time.
24-30 April 2021
Accelerated global glacier mass loss in the early twenty-first century
Andean mountain building since the Late Cretaceous: A paleoelevation reconstruction
Brief communication: New evidence further constraining Tibetan ice core chronologies to the Holocene
Changes in Ground Temperature and Dynamics in Mountain Permafrost in the Swiss Alps
Event and seasonal hydrologic connectivity patterns in an agricultural headwater catchment
Multi‐year observations of the high mountain water cycle in the Langtang catchment, Central Himalaya
Snow Processes and Climate Sensitivity in an Arid Mountain Region, Northern Chile
The Concept, Practice, Application, and Results of Locally Based Monitoring of the Environment
Using dialogue to contextualize culture, ecosystem services, and cultural ecosystem services
17-23 April 2021
A new automatic approach for extracting glacier centerlines based on Euclidean allocation
Advancing a toolkit of diverse futures approaches for global environmental assessments
Mature Andean forests as globally important carbon sinks and future carbon refuges
Mountain building, mantle convection, and supercontinents: Holmes (1931) revisited
Novel responses of diatoms in neotropical mountain lakes to indigenous and post-European occupation
On the attribution of industrial-era glacier mass loss to anthropogenic climate change
People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years
Seeing the Ice. An Overview of Alpine Glacier Tourism Sites, Between Post- and Hyper-Modernity
10-16 April 2021
Climate variability and adaptation among small holder banana farmers in mountain regions of Kenya
Effects of past landscape changes on aesthetic landscape values in the European Alps
Endemism increases species’ climate change risk in areas of global biodiversity importance
Harnessing the potential of vulnerability assessments for managing social-ecological systems
Preparing for floods on the Third Pole
Reflecting on the Anthropocene: The Call for Deeper Transformations
Revitalization plans for mountain ecological villages in South Korea
Risk perception of climate change and natural hazards in global mountain regions: A critical review
Seismological rockslide warnings in the Himalaya
Trait-based responses of bryophytes to the decaying logs in Central European mountain forests
1-9 April 2021
Fungal decomposition of river organic matter accelerated by decreasing glacier cover
Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness
Heinrich Stadial aridity forced Mediterranean-wide glacier retreat in the last cold stage
Human domination of the global water cycle absent from depictions and perceptions
Pan-European meteorological and snow indicators of climate change impact on ski tourism
Permafrost evolution in a mountain catchment near Santiago de Chile
Predictive mapping of plant diversity in an arid mountain environment (Gebel Elba, Egypt)
Recent evolution of the Vignemale glaciers (2013-2017)
Reflections and projections on a decade of climate science
Remote Detection of Surge-Related Glacier Terminus Changeacross High Mountain Asia
Restoration management of cattle resting place in mountain grassland
Signature of modern glacial lake outburst floods in fjord sediments (Baker River, southern Chile)
Setting the mountain ablaze? The Royal Highland Festival in Bhutan from the semi-nomads’ perspective
Space–time variability in soil moisture droughts in the Himalayan region
The importance of warm habitat to the growth regime of cold-water fishes
Winter melt trends portend widespread declines in snow water resources
Cover image by Martin Hogarth.