Welcome to our December 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 December 2023

[Report] 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2023/2024

A network-based normalized impact measure reveals successful periods of scientific discovery across disciplines 

Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil-based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta-analysis 

[Report] Cascading climate risks: strategic recommendations for European resilience

Climate researchers need support to become scientist-communicators

Collaboration between women helps close the gender gap in ice core science

Deep learning in hydrology and water resources disciplines: concepts, methods, applications, and research directions

Distinct dynamics in mountain watersheds: Exploring mercury and microplastic Pollution—Unraveling the influence of atmospheric deposition, human activities, and Hydrology

Diurnal temperature range as a key predictor of plants’ elevation ranges globally

[Book] Glacier Nature and Culture

How language can be a path away from neo-colonialism in geoscience

Hunting of sika deer over six decades does not restore forest regeneration

Impacts, carbon effects, and forecasts for cropland expansion in the Northern Tianshan Mountain Economic Zone

Improving climate model skill over High Mountain Asia by adapting snow cover parameterization to complex-topography areas

[Report] Leave No Mountain Behind: The Synthesis Series - Scaling ecosystem restoration and protection: challenges and promising solutions

Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming

Measuring ecosystem services and ecological sensitivity for comprehensive conservation in Giant Panda National Park

[Report] Mountains in National Adaptation Plans – A short analysis

[Report] Restoring mountain ecosystems: Challenges, case studies and recommendations for implementing the UN Decade Principles for Mountain Ecosystem Restoration 

[Report] Safeguarding Mountain Social-Ecological Systems (Volume 1)

Shifting hotspots: Climate change projected to drive contractions and expansions of invasive plant abundance habitats

[Report] The Global Tipping Points Report

The Matterhorn, an emblematic mountain in Switzerland, the time scales of a geomorphosite

[Book] The Mountain and the Politics of Representation

The time and place of origin of South Caucasian languages: insights into past human societies, ecosystems and human population genetics

[Report] The WMO State of the Climate Report 2023

[Report] Tropical Glaciers and Climate Change, Perspectives from NDCs and adaptation: Analysis and proposals based on the scenarios of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia

What climbing means…: The diversity of climbers in 2020

Cover image by Arno Senoner