Welcome to our April-May 2024 round-up of new publications! This list contains articles relevant to mountain research that you won’t want to miss this month.

Is there an article that the mountain research community should know about? Email your suggestions to mri@mountainresearchinitiative.org!

Please note: The publications listed below may not necessarily have been published this month, but rather have come to our attention at this time.

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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

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Cover image by Nitin Karolla