200 years of Darwin wasp research (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in Southern Lower Saxony (Germany) with an annotated checklist by Mike Kuschereitz

“…It can be assumed that the communities of Darwin wasps in the two main natural regions in Southern Lower Saxony, the Weser-Leine Uplands and Harz Mountains, differ in their composition, but this cannot be confirmed with certainty due to the low resolution and the different scope of the data. …”
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ICESat-2 Reveals Accelerated Global Glacier Mass Loss Except Alaska From 2019 to 2023 by Yubin Fan, Lanhua Luo, Chang-Qing Ke, Genyu Wang

“…Accelerated but contrasting patterns of glacier mass change have been observed, with an accelerated mass loss found in regions such as Svalbard, Russian Arctic, the High Mountain Asia, and the southern Andes. In contrast, Alaska exhibited a decelerated mass loss, and some Antarctic glaciers experienced a slight mass gain. …”
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The Southern Pine Beetle Dendroctonus frontalis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) by Demian Gomez, Jiri Hulcr, Jeffrey Eickwort

“…From 1998 to 2002, a four-year outbreak in the southern Appalachian Mountains affected more than 1 million acres with an economic loss of more than $1 billion (Clarke and Nowak 2009). …”
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Attributing the effects of climate change and forest disturbance on runoff using distributed modeling and indicators of hydrological alteration in Central European montane basins by Jakub Langhammer, Jana Bernsteinová

“…Study region: Eight unregulated basins in the headwaters of five mid-latitude mountain ranges in Central Europe, including the Šumava Mts. …”
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A case study on risk assessment and novel anchoring technology for potential collapse of high and steep giant dangerous rock mass by Zhang Yufang, Cui Jian, Yuan Kun, Liu Bo, Li Jian, Fan Jiawei, Liu Mengjia

“…Abstract Dangerous rock masses in mountainous areas seriously threaten the construction and operation of engineering with potential disaster hazards, especially the unpredictability and sudden occurrence of rockfall, which poses a huge challenge. …”
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Globally scalable glacier mapping by deep learning matches expert delineation accuracy by Konstantin A. Maslov, Claudio Persello, Thomas Schellenberger, Alfred Stein

“…Assessing the spatial, temporal and cross-sensor generalisation shows that our best strategy achieves intersection over union  >0.85 on previously unobserved images in most cases, which drops to  >0.75 for debris-rich areas such as High-Mountain Asia and increases to  >0.90 for regions dominated by clean ice. …”
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Variations in Postpartum Hemoglobin Values in Maternal Patients Residing at High Altitude by Jhofre Vinicio Prado Quilambaqui, Ximena Elizabeth Trujillo Romero, Olga Cristina Solis Solis

“…<br /><strong>Method:</strong> a descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out on patients treated at a health center in the province of Tungurahua, belonging to a hospital in the Ecuadorian mountains between January and December 2022. The sample consisted of 124 patients. …”
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Construction of the Giant Panda National Park corridor and restoration of edible bamboo: A case study of from the Chengdu area region by Xing Wang, Yu-Ting Yang, Yan Wu, Yu Xie, Pei Tu, Mei-Ling Liu, Mei-Jiao Zhang, Tao Lu

“…Results revealed that (1) the habitat suitability index was high in the study region’s central area but low at the periphery, with fragmentation observed, particularly in the northeastern mountains; (2) eight giant panda habitat patches (C1–C8) and nine potential ecological corridors were identified, where C1–C6 patches were small and corridors exhibited low connectivity; and (3) four bamboo species were suitable for planting in the corridors, identified by overlaying corridor layers with bamboo suitability maps. …”
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Temporal Trends and Spatial Patterns of Temperature and Its Extremes over the Beijing-Tianjin Sand Source Region (1960–2014), China by Wei Wei, Baitian Wang, Kebin Zhang, Zhongjie Shi, Genbatu Ge, Xiaohui Yang

“…All extreme temperature indices showed warming trends at most stations; a higher warming slope in extreme temperature mainly occurred along the northeast border and northwest border and in the central-southern mountain area. As extreme low temperature events decrease, vegetation damage due to freezing temperatures will reduce and low cold-tolerant plants may expand their distribution range northward to revegetate barren areas in the BTSSR. …”
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Compilation and mapping of hydrogeological data for the Tadla irrigation perimeter by Iharzi Chaimae, Najine Abdessamad, Kassou Amina, Benmoussa Amroumousa, Mouzoun Ouafae, Essahlaoui Ali, Khrabcha Abdelali

“…With its lush fields and neighboring mountains, the Tadla Plain in central Morocco is an important agricultural area. …”
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Analysis of the Localization of physical expansion in Germi city, using VIKOR by Fariba Esfandiari, Soghra Jedi Gheshlagh Ilkhchi, Elnaz Piroozi

“…The city due to its geographical location and placed on the steep and mountainous zone has numerous limitations. Therefore, investigating and analyzing natural phenomena and human factors area and will ultimately provide control measures and logical approach and limits of this process is essential. …”
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Attitudes des éleveurs et sensibilité des systèmes d'élevage face aux sécheresses dans les Alpes françaises by Baptiste Nettier, Laurent Dobremez, Jean-Luc Coussy, Thomas Romagny

“…For the grazing periods, the high mountain livestock breeders and the dairy systems of the Northern Alps rely above all on extending and over-sizing the pasture areas in relation to the needs of the herds. …”
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Preparation of the Digital Elevation Model using open source Geographic Information Systems tools for 3D prints by Chwiałkowski Cyprian, Zydroń Adam

“…The presented scheme can be used anywhere in the world, however, for the purpose of illustrating its capabilities, a case study of a selected area – the Tatra Mountain range – was conducted in this paper. As part of the study, a 3D model was developed based on a Digital Elevation Model obtained from an open source, i.e. …”
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Topographic and hydrological controls on partial and full surges of Little Kluane Glacier, Yukon by Brittany Main, Luke Copland, Gwenn Elizabeth Flowers, Christine Fiona Dow, Wesley Van Wychen, Sergey Samsonov, William Kochtitzky

“…We demonstrate that a ~20 km long valley glacier in the St. Elias Mountains, Yukon, can experience both partial and full surges, likely controlled by the presence of a topographic constriction and the formation and drainage of supraglacial lakes. …”
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Influence of Base Rock Deterioration on Tunnel Bottom Structure Damage under Train Excitation by Zi-Qiang Li, Wei-Wei Huang, Zheng Li, Jian-Wen Feng, Hang Zhang, Qi Li

“…In the ground of the preliminary study of the Taihangshan Mountain Tunnel, it was observed that under water-rich conditions, the long rolling of heavy-haul trains would deteriorate the surrounding rock, thereby causing damage to the bottom structure. …”
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Statistical Analysis of Snow Cover Characteristics in the Middle Zagros Region by Moslem Seidy Shahivandi, Kamal Omidvar

“…One of the most important forms of precipitation in the hydrological cycle of mountainous regions is snow. In this research, after collecting statistics and information related to days with snow during the statistical period (1989-2018) in stations located in the three provinces of Kermanshah, Ilam and Lorestan. …”
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Characteristics of Precipitation, Streamflow, and Sediment Transport of the Hangman Creek in the Pacific Northwest, USA: Implication for Agricultural Conservation Practice Implemen... by Yongping Yuan, Sean Kanyuk

“…In this study, we investigated long-term precipitation, streamflow, and suspended sediment load patterns within the Hangman Creek watershed, draining from the Rocky Mountains in Idaho to Washington, to identify the magnitude of changes with the goal of better understanding the links between these processes and the potential effects of agricultural conservation practices (ACPs) implemented since the 1990s. …”
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An eastern Congolian endemic, or widespread but secretive? New data on the recently described Afrixalus lacustris (Anura, Hyperoliidae) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Tadeáš Nečas, Gabriel Badjedjea, Janis Czurda, Václav Gvoždík

“…The Great Lakes spiny reed frog (Afrixalus lacustris) was recently described from transitional (submontane) forests at mid-elevations of the Albertine Rift mountains in the eastern Congolian region. Previously, because of its similarity, it had been understood to represent eastern populations of the unrelated A. laevis, which is known mainly from Cameroon. …”
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Effects of Physicochemical Variables of Superficial Waters on the Abundance of the North African Freshwater Crab Potamon algeriense (Bott, 1967) by Soufiane Fadlaoui, Ouahid El Asri, Mustapha Bouterfas, Mohammed Melhaoui

“…This study discloses the global quality of the surface waters and the effect of physicochemical variables on the abundance of the African freshwater crab Potamon algeriense inhabiting Zegzel watercourse, a mountain stream in the northeast of Morocco. Physicochemical variables including streamflow, water temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, suspended matter, chloride, calcium, magnesium, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, orthophosphate, and organic matter were evaluated monthly for one year (October 2017–September 2018). …”
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Maternal F1 antibodies and cytokines in mother-neonate dog pairs in the Marmota himalayana plague focus by Deming Tang, Asaiti Bukai, Shuai Qin, Ran Duan, Dongyue Lyu, Zhaokai He, Xiaojin Zheng, Weiwei Wu, Junrong Liang, Haifu Qu, Aidai Bieke, Peng Zhang, Dan Zhang, Haonan Han, Qun Duan, Huaiqi Jing, Xin Wang

“…In this study, we investigated the F1 antibody against Yersinia pestis in the sera of mother-neonate shepherd dog pairs in the Marmota himalayana plague focus of the Altun-Qilian Mountains, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. Seropositive shepherd dogs lived in plague-endemic regions, where marmots were infected with Y. pestis, whereas seronegative dogs lived in non-endemic regions. …”
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