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Adish Khezri, Rohan Bennett and Jaap Zevenbergen
Community-based Adaptation Programs (CAPs) that involve the participation of communities are being actively promoted in mountainous areas. These areas are climate sensitive and are often heavily influenced by landslides, floods, and drought. This researc...
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Natasha Caverley
The mountain pine beetle (MPB) infestation has created momentum for change in British Columbia. Over the past 3 - 4 years, the formation of collaborative networks and other innovative partnerships, such as the First Nations Mountain Pine Beetle Initiativ...
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Yurong Yang, Miao Dong, Yaping Cao, Jinlong Wang, Ming Tang and Yihui Ban
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Haoran Wang, Yongcan Chen, Zhaowei Liu, Dejun Zhu
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The main objective of this study was to quantify the impacts of the run of river (ROR) scheme on the instream habitat and macroinvertebrate community. We sampled the macroinvertebrate assemblages and collected the habitat variables above and below an ROR...
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Shankar Adhikari, Himlal Baral and Craig Nitschke
Rural mountain communities in developing countries are considered particularly vulnerable to environmental change, including climate change. Forests and agriculture provide numerous ecosystem goods and services (EGS) to local communities and can help peo...
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David Huggard
Large wildfires near communities in southern BC, and the extensive outbreak of mountain pine beetle (MPB) throughout pine forests of the BC Interior, have created many new issues for forest managers. A particular concern is managing the cumulative effect...
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Stella M. Moreiras, Sergio A. Sepúlveda, Mariana Correas-González, Carolina Lauro, Iván Vergara, Pilar Jeanneret, Sebastián Junquera-Torrado, Jaime G. Cuevas, Antonio Maldonado, José L. Antinao and Marisol Lara
This review paper compiles research related to debris flows and hyperconcentrated flows in the central Andes (30°?33° S), updating the knowledge of these phenomena in this semiarid region. Continuous records of these phenomena are lacking through the And...
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Climate change and related hazards affect the livelihoods of people and their vulnerability to shocks and stresses. Though research on the linkages between a changing climate and vulnerability has been increasing, only a few studies have examined the cas...
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Darcy Mitchell,Tom Hobby
Non-timber forest resources (NTFRs) are increasingly recognized globally as important in supporting the livelihoods of forest-dependent, often Aboriginal communities, in fostering natural resource conservation, and in providing ecosystem services. As Bri...
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Anna Marino, Francesca Bona, Stefano Fenoglio and Tiziano Bo
Of all the environmental elements that influence the biological communities of rivers, water flow characteristics are undoubtedly the most important. Unfortunately, natural hydrological characteristics are increasingly threatened by human activities, esp...
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Timothy R. Seastedt and Meagan F. Oldfather
The populations, species, and communities in high elevation mountainous regions at or above tree line are being impacted by the changing climate. Mountain systems have been recognized as both resilient and extremely threatened by climate change, requirin...
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Shyang-Woei Lin, Chia-Feng Yen, Chih-Hsin Chang, Li-Jin Wang and Hung-Ju Shih
In East Taiwan, coastal settlements are scattered and narrowly confined between the Coastal Mountain and the Pacific Ocean. These settlements are currently at risk as there is no room for retreat. Therefore, it is essential to conduct a comprehensive and...
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Sonja C. Jähnig, Jonathan D. Tonkin, Maria Gies, Sami Domisch, Daniel Hering and Peter Haase
Given the scientific consensus that climate change is impacting biodiversity, estimates of future climate change effects on stream communities and assessments of potential biases are necessary. Here, we propose a simple technique to approximate changes i...
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Sonja C. Jähnig, Jonathan D. Tonkin, Maria Gies, Sami Domisch, Daniel Hering, Peter Haase
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Given the scientific consensus that climate change is impacting biodiversity, estimates of future climate change effects on stream communities and assessments of potential biases are necessary. Here, we propose a simple technique to approximate changes i...
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Emanuele Pintaldi, Csilla Hudek, Silvia Stanchi, Thomas Spiegelberger, Enrico Rivella and Michele Freppaz
The skiing industry often represent the main contribution to mountain regions? economy, by providing several economic benefits and the improvement of services and infrastructure. Ski resorts also play a crucial role as an impacting factor, causing severe...
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Fengqing Li, Deep Narayan Shah, Steffen U. Pauls, Xiaodong Qu, Qinghua Cai and Ram Devi Tachamo Shah
Climate warming threatens biodiversity at global, regional and local levels by causing irreversible changes to species populations and biological communities. The Himalayan region is highly vulnerable to climate warming. This calls for efficient environm...
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Franz K. Huber, Michael Morlok, Caroline S. Weckerle and Klaus Seeland
This paper investigates the socio-ecological differences and interactions between upland and lowland areas in Shaxi Valley, Yunnan Province, Southwest China. As an analytical tool we used an extended Human?Environment System Framework by focusing particu...
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Pedro Tíscar Oliver
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Aim of study: This study aimed to determine the influence of topography and stand-structure on the characteristics of shrub communities and tree regeneration in a Mediterranean forest.Area of study: The Navahondona forest in Cazorla mountain range (SE Sp...
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Mayssara El Bouhissi, Zoheir Mehdadi, Wael El Zerey
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The change in the structure of species communities along environmental gradients is a privileged field of ecology as it allows exploring a continuous progression of situations often in a small area, in this context, we are interested in studying the impa...
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José Miguel Deformes, Jorge Núñez, Jerry P. Fairley, José Luis Arumí and Ricardo Oyarzún
This study utilized the Random Forest (RF) algorithm to assess groundwater potential (GWP) in the mid-mountain region of the Coquimbo region, north-central Chile. A comprehensive evaluation of twenty-one factors, primarily derived from Digital Elevation ...
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