Welcome to our January 2023 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. 


1 - 31 January 2023

A funding mosaic for loss and damage

A spatial fingerprint of land-water linkage of biodiversity uncovered by remote sensing and environmental DNA

Accuracy of mutual predictions of plant and microbial communities vary along a successional gradient in an alpine glacier forefield

Assessing a data-driven approach for monthly runoff prediction in a mountain basin of the Central Andes of Argentina

[Report] BAMS Special Report: Explaining Extreme Events in 2021 and 2022 from a Climate Perspective

Baseflow Trends for Midsize Carpathian Catchments in Poland and Slovakia in 1970–2019

[Report] UN World Tourism Organization: Baseline Report on Climate Action in Tourism

Braiding Knowledges: The Canadian Mountain Network Experience

Bridging the Gap Between Simple Metrics and Model Simulations of Climate Change Impacts on Land Hydrology

Biogeographic origins and drivers of alien plant invasions in the Canary Islands

Climate Change and Mountain Environment in Context of Sustainable Development Goals in Nepal

Connecting hydrological modelling and forecasting from global to local scales: Perspectives from an international joint virtual workshop

Decrypting the stream periphyton physical habitat of recently deglaciated floodplains

Disentangling the factors of spatio-temporal patterns of wildfire activity in south-eastern France

‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why

Elevational patterns of microbial carbon use efficiency in a subtropical mountain forest

Evaluation of recent land-use and land-cover change in a mountain region

Everyday adaptation practices by coffee farmers in three mountain regions in Africa

Exploring Residents’ Perceptions towards Tourism Development—A Case Study of the Adjara Mountain Area

Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters

Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model

[Policy Brief] Harnessing the socio-ecological potential of mountain biosphere reserves for biodiversity conservation. UNESCO - World Network Mountains Biosphere Reserves

High-resolution SnowModel simulations reveal future elevation-dependent snow loss and earlier, flashier surface water input for the Upper Colorado River Basin

How much biodiversity is concealed in the word ‘biodiversity’?

[Policy brief] How to govern Europe’s forests for multiple Forest Ecosystem Services?

Hydrological Drought Generation Processes and Severity Are Changing in the Alps

Isolating climatic, tectonic, and lithologic controls on mountain landscape evolution

Joint problem framing: a transdisciplinary methodology for a sustainable future in mountain areas

Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity

Land Use Affects the Local Climate of a Tropical Mountain Landscape in Northern Ecuador

Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems

[Book] Montology Palimpsest: A Primer of Mountain Geographies

Mountain Graticules: Bridging Latitude, Longitude, Altitude, and Historicity to Biocultural Heritage

Mountain Landscape and Human Settlement in the Pindus Range: The Samarina Highland Zones of Western Macedonia, Greece

Nation-wide mapping of tree-level aboveground carbon stocks in Rwanda

Resampling alpine herbarium records reveals changes in plant traits over space and time

Review: mountain lakes as freshwater resources at risk from chemical pollution

[Book] Progress in Landslide Research and Technology (Volume 1 Issue 1; Volume 1 Issue 2)

Projected impact of increased global warming on heat stress and exposed population over Africa

Recent waning snowpack in the Alps is unprecedented in the last six centuries

Regional and tele-connected impacts of the Tibetan Plateau surface darkening

[Report] Report of the Sixth Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership

River ecosystem metabolism and carbon biogeochemistry in a changing world

Rural Depopulation and Empty Rural Houses in Bhutan: How Different Stakeholders Interpret the Local Term Gungton

Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Future Scenario Simulation of the Trade-offs and Synergies of Mountain Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of the Dabie Mountains Area, China

[Report] Sustainable mountain development: Euromontana’s 2023 booklet of good practices

The benefits of mountain woodland restoration

The deployment of snowmaking in the French ski tourism industry: a path development approach

The misuse of colour in science communication

The Mount Washington Observatory Regional Mesonet: A Technical Overview of a Mountain-Based Mesone

The outsized role of California’s largest wildfires in changing forest burn patterns and coarsening ecosystem scale

Towards a landscape-metabolism model for the tropical Andes. Application in the metropolitan region of Cali (Colombia)

Unravelling biotic versus abiotic processes in the development of large sulfuric-acid karst

Unraveling the Differences in Landcover Patterns in High Mountains and Low Mountain Environments within the Valdivian Temperate Rainforest Biome in Chile

Vanishing evidence? On the longevity of geomorphic GLOF diagnostic features in the Tropical Andes


Cover image by Denise Metz

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