Welcome to our August 2020 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. 

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22-28 August 2020 

[MAGAZINE] New issue of ANthropocene 

[BOOK] Himalaya: A Human History

[BOOK] Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions: Central Asia and Altai

Using large ensemble modelling to derive future changes in mountain specific climate indicators in a 2 and 3°C warmer world in High Mountain Asia

Assessing discourses about controversial environmental management issues on social media: Tweeting about wild horses in a national park

Automatic classification of fine-scale mountain vegetation based on mountain altitudinal belt

How to run a sustainability science research group sustainably?

Future projection of cryospheric and hydrologic regimes in Koshi River basin, Central Himalaya, using coupled glacier dynamics and glacio-hydrological models

Extrapolation and Uncertainty Evaluation of Carbon Dioxide and Methane Emissions in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Wetlands Since the 1960s

The mudflow disaster at Villa Santa Lucía in Chilean Patagonia: understandings and insights derived from numerical simulation and postevent field surveys

Evolution of the largest glacier in Mexico (Glaciar Norte) since the 50s: factors driving glacier retreat

Climate Change-Induced Changes in the Chemistry of a High-Altitude Mountain Lake in the Central Alps

Understanding population baselines: status of mountain ungulate populations in the Central Tien Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan

Social determinants of adaptive and transformative responses to climate change

Changes in rainfall partitioning caused by the replacement of native dry forests of Lithraea molleoides by exotic plantations of Pinus elliottii in the dry Chaco mountain forests, central Argentina

Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070)

Wildfires effects on organic matter of soils from Caramulo Mountain (Portugal): environmental implications

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15-21 August 2020 

[BOOK] The Hidden Life of Ice: Dispatches from a Disappearing World

Evolution of traditional agroforestry landscapes and development of invasive species: lessons from the Pyrenees (France)

Mountain specific multi-hazard risk management framework (MSMRMF): Assessment and mitigation of multi-hazard and climate change risk in the Indian Himalayan Region

Perceived benefits of nature-based experiences as mediators of connectedness with nature: the case of Mystic Mountain

Climatic changes and the fate of mountain herbivores

Ecosystem services from mountain forests: Local communities’ views in Kibira National Park, Burundi

Benefits of conservation-driven mowing for the EU policy species Gladiolus palustris Gaudin in mountain fen meadows: a case-study in the European Alps

Response of multiple mountain ecosystem services on environmental gradients: How to respond, and where should be priority conservation?

Understanding of Forest Cover Dynamics in Traditional Landscapes: Mapping Trajectories of Changes in Mountain Territories (1824–2016), on the Example of Jeleniogórska Basin, Poland

Spatio-temporal variation of ecosystem services value in the Northern Tianshan Mountain Economic zone from 1980 to 2030

The importance of habitat diversity and plant species richness for hazel grouse occurrence in the mixed mountain forests of the Western Carpathians

Increasing anthropogenic salinisation leads to declines in community diversity, functional diversity and trophic links in mountain streams

Twenty years of European mountain permafrost dynamics – the PACE legacy

Of pipe dreams and fossil fools: Advancing Canadian fossil fuel hegemony through the Trans Mountain pipeline

Evolution of Main Water Cycle Fluxes in the Karst Mountain Region of Southwest China

The Role of Snowmelt on the Spatio-Temporal Variability of Spring Recharge in a Dolomitic Mountain Group, Italian Alps

Losses and damages connected to glacier retreat in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru

A century of high elevation ecosystem change in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Identification of local water resource vulnerability to rapid deglaciation in Alberta

Geomorphology of the upper Kalguty Basin, Ukok Plateau, Russian Altai mountains

Late Glacial mountain glacier culmination in Arctic Norway prior to the Younger Dryas

Ensemble matching of repeat satellite images applied to measure fast-changing ice flow, verified with mountain climber trajectories on Khumbu icefall, Mount Everest

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8-14 August 2020

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

[REPORT] State of the Climate 

[BOOK] ECHO: Ethnographic, Cultural and Historical Overview of Yukon’s First Peoples

International Environmental Conflict Management in Transboundary River Basins

Timing, drivers and impacts of the historic Masiere di Vedana rock avalanche (Belluno Dolomites, NE Italy) 

The Great Acceleration of fragrances and PAHs archived in an ice core from Elbrus, Caucasus

Applying artificial snowfall to reduce the melting of the Muz Taw Glacier, Sawir Mountains 

Anthropogenic climate change and glacier lake outburst flood risk: local and global drivers and responsibilities for the case of lake Palcacocha, Peru 

Global snow drought hot spots and characteristics

Historical Northern Hemisphere snow cover trends and projected changes in the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble 

The evaluation of the potential of global data products for snow hydrological modelling in ungauged high alpine catchments 

Regional Geography of Glacier Mass Balance Variability Over Seven Decades 1946–2015 

Climatic Heterogeneity in the Bolivian Andes: Are Frogs Trapped? 

Ensemble matching of repeat satellite images applied to measure fast-changing ice flow, verified with mountain climber trajectories on Khumbu icefall, Mount Everest 

Potential contributions of pre-Inca infiltration infrastructure to Andean water security 

Decreasing snow cover alters functional composition and diversity of Arctic tundra 

Detrital Thermochronology Reveals Major Middle Miocene Exhumation of the Eastern Flank of the Andes That Predates the PampeanFlat Slab (33°–33.5°S) 

Evidence for elevation-dependent warming from the Chinese Tianshan Mountains 

Surface energy fluxes on Chilean glaciers: measurements and models

A century of high elevation ecosystem change in the Canadian Rocky Mountains 

Dynamic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet driven by sustained glacier retreat

Late Glacial mountain glacier culmination in Arctic Norway prior to the Younger Dryas

Alpine vegetation in the context of climate change: A global review of past research and future directions

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1-7 August 2020

[REPORT] Mountain Partnership Secretariat Annual Report 2019

First snow, glacier and groundwater contribution quantification in the upper Mendoza River basin using stable water isotopes 

Identification of local water resource vulnerability to rapid deglaciation in Alberta 

A scale-dependent model to represent changing aerodynamic roughness of ablating glacier ice based on repeat topographic surveys  

The state of rock debris covering Earth’s glaciers 

Anthropogenic warming forces extreme annual glacier mass loss 

Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism 

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Cover image: Albrecht Fietz