ExtreMo focuses on establishing empirical understanding on locally perceived impacts of extreme drought on the productivity and conservation of mountain pastoral systems.
Providing Safe Drinking Water in the Himalayas: A Tale of Two Cities
This study focuses on the analysis of water quality and market and policy failures in water governance.
Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) in the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains: Spatial Distribution, Applications, and Early Climate trends
This study assesses the advantages of automatic weather stations in the mountainous regions. It evaluates the applications of weather data on sectors that are climate-sensitive.
Understanding the role and impacts of non-academic actors’ involvement in natural hazard and disaster risk research: Insights from Nepal
This study examines how non-academic actors contribute to natural hazards and disaster risk research in Nepal, analyzing participation strategies, methodological challenges, and potential impacts.
Community Resistance and Resilience through Appalachian Mountain Music Traditions
This presentation explores the use of community-based traditional music and arts in the Appalachian Mountains as part of placemaking efforts and social/environmental movements for the land and people.
Climate, not land-use, drives a recent acceleration of larch expansion at the forest-grassland ecotone in the southern French alps
This study investigates treeline shifts in the southern French Alps, showing how climate change accelerates tree establishment, reinforcing a dynamic initially triggered by historical land-use changes
Cooperatives´ contribution to resiliency of alpine family farming in South Tyrol
I am goingo to explain how cooperatives are a key factor in assuring resiliency in cases of market shocks and instabilities as well as shortcuts deriving from a lower independency in farm managem.
Critical Comments on the Papers in the Session “Mountain Echoes Beyond Boundaries”
My task in this section is to summarize the various papers, to comment on them critically and to show how they are related.
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Plot-scale homogenization of alpine vegetation masks loss of rare species under warming and colonization from competitive lowland species
Warming and transplant experiment in Norwegian mountain sites shows that alpine species losses due to competitive lowland colonizers are masked by a plot-scale richness increase due to homogenization.
Thermophilization and ecosystem colonization sensitivity on mountain summits in Filefjell, Norway
Vegetation resampling of 12 Filefjell mountain summits in Norway documents clear thermophilization over the last 14 years and differences in colonization sensitivity among alpine ecosystem types.