LIVEMOUNT aims to indicate sustainable livestock farming regimes ensuring biodiversity and ecosystem function maintenance in the Mediterranean mountainous grasslands, under climate change.
Seventy years of Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) monitoring reveal the complexity of environmental change effects on population dynamics
Long-term monitoring of Alpine ibex in Gran Paradiso National Park (Italy) showed that milder winters led to increased adult survival and decreased kid survival rates.
Managing Decline – Where to Draw a Line by Prioritizing Investments in Mountain Villages?
The depopulation of mountain villages threatens cultural heritage. This research opens a discussion about criteria for prioritizing villages for investments in the reality of managing rural decline.
Indigenous Perspectives on a Traditional Cultural Landscape: incorporating oral histories, landscapes and archaeological data at the Wiggins Fork Buffalo Jumps Complex.
Bringing together tribal members and archaeologists, to explore a culturally significant landscape to tell the history of the area through both scientific data and oral traditions.
Indigenous Youth Leadership in Climate and Development Initiatives of the Mountains
This research explores the causes of Indigenous youth migration from mountain regions, emphasizing the importance of including them in decision-making and fostering skills to preserve traditional know
Conservation Policies in the Qilian Mountains Natural Reserve: Implications for Climate Change Mitigation and Desertification Control in the Shiyang River Basin
GIS and Geodetector analyzed environmental and human impacts on Qilian Mountains ecosystem, with a greening trend observed due to conservation efforts despite the odds of climate and water shortage.Cl
A youth-based glacio-hydrological monitoring program in Tongait KakKasuangita SilakKijapvinga (Torngat Mountains National Park), Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada
We report on a youth-based participatory glacio-hydrological research program that aims to establish mass balance, meteorological, and watershed monitoring for a glacier in the Torngat Mountains.
Vegetation changes after 15 yrs. along an elevational gradient in the Andes of central Chile
After 15 years, the number of native plants species in the lower part of an elevational gradient in the Andes of central Chile decreased whilst the number of exotics increased
Tackling biological invasions in mountains under the Kunming-Montreal GBF: Gaps in data, policies and management tools.
We present an initial assessment of how mountain regions are addressing Target 6 and identify key gaps in data, policies, and management tools to combat the threat of biological invasions.
Climate regulating benefits of mountain systems: A case study of the Yellowstone to Yukon region
The presentation demonstrates the out-sized climate regulating benefits of North America’s Rocky Mountain region and invites comparative analyses from other mountain areas globally.