Welcome to our March 2022 round-up of new publications! This list 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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26 March – 1 April 2022

A hierarchical inventory of the world’s mountains for global comparative mountain science

A millennium of climatic and floristic dynamics in the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes

Aosta Valley Mountain Springs: A Preliminary Analysis for Understanding Variations in Water Resource Availability under Climate Change

Characteristics of mountain glaciers in the northern Japanese Alps

Coincident evolution of glaciers and ice-marginal proglacial lakes across the Southern Alps, New Zealand: Past, present and future

Contrasting responses of forest growth and carbon sequestration to heat and drought in the Alps

Detrainment and braking of snow avalanches interacting with forests

Engaging with complexity in resilience practice

Ethics of Probabilistic Extreme Event Attribution in Climate Change Science: A Critique

Governing the ‘Water Tower of Asia’: The Case for a System of Integrated Knowledge for the Hindu Kush Himalaya

Hiking accommodation provision in the mountain areas of Valencia Region, Spain: a tool for combating the depopulation of rural areas

Influence of Topographic Shading on the Mass Balance of the High Mountain Asia Glaciers

Importance of Fog and Cloud Water Contributions to Soil Moisture in the Andean Páramo

Knowledge Priorities on Climate Change and Water in the Upper Indus Basin: A Horizon Scanning Exercise to Identify the Top 100 Research Questions in Social and Natural Sciences

[Report] Mining Melodrama in Mongolia: A Case Study of the Gurvantes Sum [in Kyrgyz]

Multi-Decadal Glacier Area and Mass Balance Change in the Southern Peruvian Andes

Multisector Dynamics: Advancing the Science of Complex Adaptive Human-Earth Systems

Rethinking biodiversity patterns and processes in stream ecosystems

Rotational pasture management to increase the sustainability of mountain livestock farms in the Alpine region

The contribution of the commons to the persistence of mountain grazing systems under the Common Agricultural Policy

The potential for voluntary carbon offset programs in the Canadian snow-based outdoor recreation industry

Too expensive to keep — bidding farewell to an iconic mountain glacier?

Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability

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19-25 March 2022

Alpine permafrost could account for a quarter of thawed carbon based on Plio-Pleistocene paleoclimate analogue

Characteristics and mechanism of landslide-debris flow chain disaster in low mountain and hilly terrain

Evaporation enhancement drives the European water-budget deficit during multi-year droughts

Hydrological Drivers of Bedload Transport in an Alpine Watershed

Impact of forest wildfires on components of mountain landscapes of the Baikal region

Implementing the livelihood resilience framework: An indicator-based model for assessing mountain pastoral farming systems

Independent variation of avian sensitivity to climate change and trait-based adaptive capacity along a tropical elevational gradient

Recent changes in high-mountain plant community functional composition in contrasting climate regimes

Stakeholder perspectives on nature, people and sustainability at Mount Kilimanjaro

Stakeholder visions for trajectories of adaptation to climate change in the Drôme catchment (French Alps)

The Andes through time: evolution and distribution of Andean floras

The potential of European abandoned agricultural lands to contribute to the Green Deal objectives: Policy perspectives

Water and energy availability mediate biodiversity patterns along an elevational gradient in the tropical Andes

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12-18 March 2022

A local model of snow–firn dynamics and application to the Colle Gnifetti site

Alpine plants are on the move: Quantifying distribution shifts of Australian alpine plants through time

Assessing the climate change effects on the distribution pattern of the Azerbaijan Mountain Newt (Neurergus crocatus)

Asynchronous range shifts drive alpine plant–pollinator interactions and reduce plant fitness

Climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests

Changes in characteristics of climate extremes from 1961 to 2017 in Qilian Mountain area, northwestern China

Complex chemical cocktail, containing insecticides diazinon and permethrin, drives acute toxicity to crustaceans in mountain lakes

Editorial: Editorial: Ecosystem and Hydrological Responses in Mountain Environments to the Changing Climate

Elevational patterns of phylogenetic structure of angiosperms in a biodiversity hotspot in eastern Himalaya

Evaluation of Northern Hemisphere snow water equivalent in CMIP6 models during 1982–2014

Land management explains major trends in forest structure and composition over the last millennium in California’s Klamath Mountains

Large-eddy Simulations of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer over an Alpine Glacier: Impact of Synoptic Flow Direction and Governing Processes

Locomotion behavior of dairy cows on traditional summer mountain farms in comparison with modern cubicle housing without access to pasture

Nature-based solutions in mountain catchments reduce impact of anthropogenic climate change on drought streamflow

Potential impacts of climate change on an aquifer in the arid Altiplano, northern Chile: The case of the protected wetlands of the Salar del Huasco basin

Renewable energy development threatens many globally important biodiversity areas

Simulating fully-integrated hydrological dynamics in complex Alpine headwaters: potential and challenges

The Effects of Climate Change Scenarios on Carpinus betulus and Carpinus orientalis in Europe

Twenty-first century hydroclimate: A continually changing baseline, with more frequent extremes

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5-11 March 2022

Altitude and temperature drive anuran community assembly in a Neotropical mountain region

An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Taita Hills, Eastern Arc Mountain

Analyzing the interactions among multiple ecosystem services in a rural mining region in Central Appalachians

Analysis of the Orchidaceae Diversity in the Pululahua Reserve, Ecuador: Opportunities and Constraints as Regards the Biodiversity Conservation of the Cloud Mountain Forest

Climatic and Ecological Changes in the Subtropical High Andes During the Last 4,500 Years

Cryosphere Microbiome Biobanks for Mountain Glaciers in China

Far away and yet so close: urban–rural linkages in the context of multilocal work arrangements

Floristic composition of Jandaf Mountain as biodiversity hotspot area in southwestern Saudi Arabia

Future Lake Development in Deglaciating Mountain Ranges

Glacial burst triggered by triangular wedge collapse: a study from Trisul Mountain near Ronti glacier valley

Impacts of future land use changes on land use conflicts based on multiple scenarios in the central mountain region, China

Implementing Climate Change Adaptation Policies Across Scales: Challenges for Knowledge Coproduction in Andean Mountain Socio-ecosystems

Interdecadal variation in sediment yield from a forested mountain basin: The role of hydroclimatic variability, anthropogenic disturbances, and geomorphic connectivity

Joint Endeavor Toward Sustainable Mountain Development: Research at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Past changes in natural and managed snow reliability of French Alps ski resorts from 1961 to 2019

Should I Stay or Can I Go? Accessible Tourism and Mountain Huts in Gran Paradiso National Park

Simulation of Glacial Lake Outburst Flood in Southeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau—A Case Study of JiwenCo Glacial Lake

Spared, shared and lost—routes for maintaining the Scandinavian Mountain foothill intact forest landscapes

Temperature rather than individual growing period length determines radial growth of sessile oak in the Pyrenees

The effect of natural infrastructure on water erosion mitigation in the Andes

The importance of hydrology in routing terrestrial carbon to the atmosphere via global streams and rivers

Transforming mountains through inter- and transdisciplinary research? A workshop to trigger networking on an urgent topic for sustainability

Trends, breaks, and biases in the frequency of reported glacier lake outburst floods

Using a leverage points perspective to compare social-ecological systems: a case study on rural landscapes

Visitors’ motivations to engage in glacier tourism in the European Alps: comparison of six sites in France, Switzerland, and Austria

Warming, increase in precipitation, and irrigation enhance greening in High Mountain Asia

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26 February – 4 March 2022

Assessment spatio-temporal coupling coordination relationship between mountain rural ecosystem health and urbanization in Chongqing municipality, China

Cloud microphysical measurements at a mountain observatory: comparison between shadowgraph imaging and phase Doppler interferometry

[REPORT] Cross-Chapter Paper: MOUNTAINS. In: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/ 

Does witnessing the effects of climate change on glacial landscapes increase pro-environmental behaviour intentions? An empirical study of a last-chance destination

Effectiveness of protected areas in preventing forest loss in a tropical mountain region

Embracing mountain microbiome and ecosystem functions under global change

Four years of daily stable water isotope data in stream water and precipitation from three Swiss catchments

Future water temperature of rivers in Switzerland under climate change investigated with physics-based models

Glacial geomorphology of the central and southern Chilotan Archipelago (42.2°S–43.5°S), northwestern Patagonia

High semi-natural vegetation cover and heterogeneity of field sizes promote bird beta-diversity at larger scales in Ethiopian Highlands

Hydro-sedimentary dysfunctions as a key factor for the storage of contaminants in mountain rivers (Bienne River, Jura Mountains, France)

Joint effects of environmental filtering and dispersal limitation on the species assemblage of the Tibetan Plateau

Long-Term Monitoring of Vegetation Dynamics in the Rhodopi

Mountain Range National Park-Greece

Multi-method monitoring of rockfall activity along the classic route up Mont Blanc (4809 m a.s.l.) to encourage adaptation by mountaineers

Pastoralism, multifunctionality, and environmental agency: Insights from mountain sheep pastoralists in Northern Portugal

Projected 21st-Century Glacial Lake Evolution in High Mountain Asia

Spatiotemporal modelling of abundance from multiple data sources in an integrated spatial distribution model

Two-tiered reconstruction of Late Pleistocene to Holocene changes in the freezing level height in the largest glacierized areas of the Colombian Andes

Using a leverage points perspective to compare social-ecological systems: a case study on rural landscapes

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