Welcome to our October 2021 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.


A bibliometric analysis of mountain ecosystem services, 2000–2019

A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States

Advancing climate resilient development pathways since the IPCC’s fifth assessment report

Against the Tide: The Future of Transhumant Herders in the Kailash Sacred Landscape of Nepal

Assessing the learning process in transdisciplinary research through a novel analytical approach

Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing

Biases Beyond the Mean in CMIP6 Extreme Precipitation: A global Investigation

Closing the Adaptation Gap in Mountains

Closing the Water Cycle from Observations across Scales: Where Do We Stand?

Current Expansion of Juniperus sibirica Burgsd. to the Mountain Tundras of the Northern Urals

Debris Emergence Elevations and Glacier Change

Detectability of rainfall characteristics over a mountain river basin in the Himalayan region from 2000 to 2015 using ground- and satellite-based products

Divergent trends of water bodies and their driving factors in a high-latitude water tower, Changbai Mountain

Dynamics of Tree and Shrub Vegetation in the Eastern Sayan Mountain Tundra

Earlier snowmelt and reduced summer precipitation alter floral traits important to pollination

[Report] UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On.

Evaluation of the snow cover detection in the Copernicus High Resolution Snow & Ice Monitoring Service

Explanations for tropical diversity gradients are rooted in the deep past

Factors influencing distributional shifts and abundance at the range core of a climate-sensitive mammal

[Book chapter] Fire Ecology of Rocky Mountain Forests

Factors influencing distributional shifts and abundance at the range core of a climate-sensitive mammal

Geoethical implications of water pollution by road de‐icing: lessons and way forward in a mountain protected area (Serra da Estrela, Central Portugal)

Ground-based vertical profile observations of atmospheric composition on the Tibetan Plateau (2017–2019)

High-resolution inventory to capture glacier disintegration in the Austrian Silvretta

Impact of lateral groundwater flow on hydrothermal conditions of the active layer in a high-Arctic hillslope setting

Improving regional flood risk assessment using flood frequency and dendrogeomorphic analyses in mountain catchments impacted by tropical cyclones

Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest

Increasing risk of ecological change to major rivers of the world with global warming

Institutions for reoperating reservoirs in semi-arid regions facing climate change and competing societal water demands: insights from Colorado

Iterative scenarios for social-ecological systems

[Report]  IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions : a user-friendly framework for the verification, design and scaling up of NbS

Land-based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country

Microplastic pollution in mountain terrains and foothills: A review on source, extraction, and distribution of microplastics in remote areas

Mountain grassland restoration using hay and brush material transfer combined with temporary wheat cover

Mountain Permafrost in the Tropical Andes of Peru: The 0°C Isotherm as a Potential Indicator

Natural disturbance impacts on trade-offs and co-benefits of forest biodiversity and carbon

Nature-dependent people: Mapping human direct use of nature for basic needs across the tropics

Mountain Watch: How LT(S)ER Is Safeguarding Southern Africa’s People and Biodiversity for a Sustainable Mountain Future

Patterns and determinants of lichen abundance and diversity across a subarctic to arctic latitudinal gradient

Projected Changes to Hydroclimate Seasonality in the Continental United States

Snow modulates winter energy use and cold exposure across an elevation gradient in a montane ectotherm

Social-ecological resilience in remote mountain communities: toward a novel framework for an interdisciplinary investigation

[Report] State of the Cryosphere 2021: A Needed Decade of Urgent Action 

State of Himalayan cryosphere and implications for water security

The magnitude, direction, and tempo of forest change in Greater Yellowstone in a warmer world with more fire

The socio-ecological legacies of centuries-old charcoal making practices in a mountain forest of the northern Pyrenees

Transformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well-being in Latin America

Using Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) approaches to support climate change adaptation of Swiss Ski Resorts

Upslope migration of snow avalanches in a warming climate

Vulnerability assessments of mountain forest ecosystems: a global synthesis

[Report] What near-term climate impacts should worry us most? Supporting the most exposed and vulnerable societies to reduce regional and global climate risks


Image by Trond Giæver Myhre.

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