Vegetation shifts alter soil moisture in alpine regions, with pioneer plants retaining less water than grasslands, shrubs and Forest.
25 Years of Lake Evolution and Sediment Dynamics in a Proglacial Environment: The Case of Sulzsee, Obersulzbach Valley, Austrian Alps
Glacier-fed lakes in proglacial environments offer insights into sediment dynamics and climate adaptation. Lake Sulzsee shows significant patterns of sedimentation influenced delayed ice melt.
Prospects and limitations of church forest conservation in Northern Ethiopia
Remote-sensing analysis, field surveys and interviews provide a comprehensive assessment of the ecological status, management approaches and conservation needs of a church forest in Northern Ethiopia.
Introducing Sentinel-1 SAR wet snow maps for glaciohydrological model calibration in the Himalaya-Karakoram
Present study demonstrates the use of Sentinel-1 SAR wet snow maps for calibrating the glaciohydrological model parameters for improving runoff estimates in data-scarce glacierized catchments.
Solving ordinary problems with extraordinary events? Mega-events and socio-spatial dynamics in the Alps: the case study of Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics
The redevelopment projects required to host the Olympics mismatch the needs of the hosting communities and overlook potentially more effective efforts that address present needs for these areas
Glacier Retreat and the Restructuring of Ecological Networks
Glacier retreat reshapes biodiversity, ecological networks, and ecosystem functions. Understanding these shifts is crucial for conserving biodiversity and sustaining ecosystems in mountain regions
When heritage fails: anthropological understandings from an unachieved UNESCO inscription in the Italian Western Alps
This paper explores how conflicts between institutional heritage expertise and practices of landscape stewardship in an Italian Alpine vallet could result in resistances to UNESCO heritage-making.
Effects of climate change on biological soil crusts and their ecosytem services in alpine regions.
This project explores how climate change affects biocrusts in alpine regions through field experiments and deep-learning image analyses, offering insights into their resilience and ecosystem roles.
Managing invasive Bracken fern (P.aquilinum) in the Mulanje Mountain Forest Reserve: A macroinvertebrate trait based
Mulanje Mountain Forest Reserve in southern Malawi faces increasing threats from Pteridium aquilinum. This study uses drone mapping and macroinvertebrate assessments to examine its spread.
Observing Snowfall Using High Altitude Lakes: an Example from Rofental, Alps
We describe how our method uses frozen lakes as sensing surfaces, avoiding notable measurement biases of pluviometers and snow pillows and, most importantly, covering a very much larger surface area.