Welcome to our July 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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16 July - 22 July 2022


[Report] 20 Years of Making Connections for Our Changing Mountains

700,000 years of tropical Andean glaciation

A Central Asia hydrologic monitoring dataset for food and water security applications in Afghanistan

Actor-network theory and organizational resilience to climate change in community-based tourism

Alpine plant communities differ in their seed germination requirements along a snowmelt gradient in the Caucasus

Compound post-fire flood hazards considering infrastructure sedimentation

Conceptualizing a probabilistic risk and loss assessment framework for wildfires

[Book chapter] Earth Observations of Human-Nature Interactions from a Cultural Ecosystem Service Perspective

Effects of Covid-19 on tourist’s behavior and number in mountain national park: The case of the Stołowe Mts. National Park, Poland

[Book chapter] Gendered Values, Roles, and Challenges for Sustainable Provision of Forest-Based Ecosystem Services in Nepal

Hanging glacier avalanche (Raunthigad–Rishiganga) and debris flow disaster on 7 February 2021, Uttarakhand, India: a preliminary assessment

Human populations in the world’s mountains: spatio-temporal patterns and potential controls

[e-book] If the Past Teaches, What Does the Future Learn? Ancient Urban Regions and the Durable Future

Impact of Snowpack on the Land Surface Phenology in the Tianshan Mountains, Central Asia

Measurement of light-absorbing particles in surface snow of central and western Himalayan glaciers: spatial variability, radiative impacts, and potential source regions

Modeled interactions of mountain pine beetle and wildland fire under future climate and management scenarios for three western US landscapes

Multi-proxy reconstruction of the Holocene vegetation and land use dynamics in the Julian Alps, north-west Slovenia

Name and scale matter: Clarifying the geography of Tibetan Plateau and adjacent mountain regions

Pesticide misuse among small Andean farmers stems from pervasive misinformation by retailers

Projecting end-of-century climate extremes and their impacts on the hydrology of a representative California watershed

Reconstructing the Environmental Context of Human Origins in Eastern Africa Through Scientific Drilling

Seasonal development and radiative forcing of red snow algal blooms on two glaciers in British Columbia, Canada, summer 2020

Seeing the forest for the trees: A social-ecological systems approach to managing outdoor recreation visitation in parks and protected areas

Soil depth estimation in mountainous areas by using GIS and satellite images

Spatial differentiation of determinants for water conservation dynamics in a dryland mountain

Strengthening foresight for governance of social-ecological systems: An interdisciplinary perspective

Two new species of Exetastes (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Banchinae) from the Peruvian Andes

[Book chapter] Values of Mountain Landscapes: Insights About the Blue Mountains National Park, Australia from Twitter

Volume, evolution, and sedimentation of future glacier lakes in Switzerland over the 21st century


9 July - 15 July 2022


A non-stationary extreme-value approach for climate projection ensembles: application to snow loads in the French Alps

A second-order attention network for glacial lake segmentation from remotely sensed imagery

Accounting for ecosystem service values in climate policy

Bias adjustment and downscaling of snow cover fraction projections from regional climate models using remote sensing for the European Alps

Development and evaluation of ensemble consensus precipitation estimates over High Mountain Asia

Farmers’ perspectives and context are key for the success and sustainability of farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR) in northeastern Ghana

Fire and ice: Winter flooding in a Southern Rocky Mountain stream after a wildfire

Increasing risk of cascading hazards in the central Himalayas

Landslides and Gullies Interact as Sources of Lake Sediments in a Rifting Context: Insights from a Highly Degraded Mountain Environment

[Issue Brief] Leave No Mountain Behind: Disaster Risk Reduction for All Issue Brief

[Book Chapter] Leadership in Mountain and Wildland Professions in Canada

[Book Chapter] Moving Dolomites: The heritage value of an ordinary mountain landscape

[Book] Systems Mapping: How to build and use causal models of systems

Systems thinking as a paradigm shift for sustainability transformation

Temporal beta diversity patterns reveal global change impacts in closed mountain grasslands

What drives landslide risk? Disaggregating risk analyses, an example from the Franz Josef Glacier and Fox Glacier valleys, New Zealand


2 July - 8 July 2022


A comparison of hydrological models with different level of complexity in Alpine regions in the context of climate change

Burn Severity in Canada's Mountain National Parks: Patterns, Drivers, and Predictions

Characteristics of Chemical Solutes and Mineral Dust in Ice of the Ablation Area of a Glacier in Tien Shan Mountains, Central Asia

Disaster risk reduction in mountain areas: an initial overview on seeking pathways to global sustainability

Diversity patterns of cushion plants on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: A basic study for future conservation efforts on alpine ecosystems

Dynamics and drivers of post-windthrow recovery in managed mixed mountain forests of Slovenia

Exposure to global change pressures and potential impacts on ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps

Hiking and livestock favor non-native plants in the high Andes

Identification of degradation factors in mountain semiarid rangelands using spatial distribution modelling and ecological niche theory

Land- to lake-terminating transition triggers dynamic thinning of a Bhutanese glacier

240Pu/239Pu signatures allow refining the chronology of radionuclide fallout in South America

Quantifying water-related ecosystem services potential of the Kangchenjunga Landscape in the eastern Himalaya: a modeling approach

Multitemporal landslide inventory analysis of an intertropical mountain in west-central Mexico — Basis for hazard management

Relation between regional drought and mountain dust deposition revealed by a 10-year record from an alpine critical zone

Soil organic carbon stocks in the high mountain permafrost zone of the semi-arid Central Andes (Cordillera Frontal, Argentina)

The challenges of dynamic vulnerability and how to assess it

The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change

Tree growth at gap edges. Insights from long term research plots in mixed mountain forests

What Does the Future Hold for Páramo Plants? A Modelling Approach


25 June - 1 July 2022


Aboveground carbon stocks, woody and litter productivity along an elevational gradient in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda

Airborne polar pesticides in rural and mountain sites of North-Eastern Italy: An emerging air quality issue

Climate-Streamflow Relationship and Consequences of Its Instability in Large Rivers of Pakistan: An Elasticity Perspective

[Editorial] Disaster risk reduction in mountain areas: a research overview

Estimation of Snow Cover over Mountain Region based on the Surface Wet-bulb Temperature Measurements

Framework for geospatial flood exposure mapping of schools in Himalayan region for climate change adaptation and resilient school design

From sink to source: changing climate and disturbance regimes could tip the 21st century carbon balance of an unmanaged mountain forest landscape

Glacier fluctuations in the northern Patagonian Andes (44°S) imply wind‑modulated interhemispheric in‑phase climate shifts during Termination 1

Getting ahead of climate change for ecological adaptation and resilience

Global change re-structures alpine plant communities through interacting abiotic and biotic effects

Harnessing the potential of nature-based solutions for mitigating and adapting to climate change

High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability

Lessons from the 2018–2019 European droughts: a collective need for unifying drought risk management

Microbiome assembly in thawing permafrost and its feedbacks to climate

More than a safety net: Ethiopia’s flagship public works program increases tree cover

Nitrogen fixation rates in forested mountain streams: Are sediment microbes more important than previously thought?

Projected climate in coffee-based farming systems: implications for crop suitability in Uganda

Rainfall-induced landslide early warning system based on corrected mesoscale numerical models: an application for the southern Andes

Rapid changes to global river suspended sediment flux by humans

Report on the Southern African Mountain Conference 2022, Southern African mountains – their value and vulnerabilities

Risks to biodiversity from temperature overshoot pathways

Russian Mountain Glaciers in a “Thawing” World: The First Estimates of the Balance of Greenhouse Gases in the Caucasus and Altai

Spring snowmelt affects changes of alpine tundra vegetation in Changbai Mountains

The delicate balance of river sediments

Three different glacier surges at a spot: what satellites observe and what not

Tourismus, freizeitorientierte Migration und Wohnimmobilienmarktentwicklung [Tourism, leisure-oriented migration and housing market development]

Towards accurate quantification of ice content in permafrost of the Central Andes – Part 2: An upscaling strategy of geophysical measurements to the catchment scale at two study sites

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