Metagenomic analysis of fungal assemblages at a regional scale in high-altitude temperate forest soils: alternative methods to determine diversity, composition and environmental dr... by Stephanie Hereira-Pacheco, Itzel Arias-Del Razo, Alejandra Miranda-Carrazco, Luc Dendooven, Arturo Estrada-Torres, Yendi E. Navarro-Noya

“…Our study used environmental metagenomics to determine fungal communities in mountainous forest soils in the central highlands of Mexico. …”
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Assessing Short-term Flood Impact on Land Use Dynamics in Iran’s Central Zagros: A Case Study of Sefid Kuh Protected Area by Soheyl Moradi, Hossein Moradi, Jafar Dolatshah, Azita Rezvani

“… Floods are extreme events that can alter the land cover and land use patterns in mountainous regions, with significant consequences for biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being. …”
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Effect of Rock Particle Content on the Mechanical Behavior of a Soil-Rock Mixture (SRM) via Large-Scale Direct Shear Test by Longqi Liu, Xuesong Mao, Yajun Xiao, Qian Wu, Ke Tang, Feifei Liu

“…The mechanical strength of the landslide deposits directly affects the safety and operation of the roads in the western mountainous area of China. Therefore, the research is aimed at studying the mechanisms of a landslide deposit sample with different rock particle contents by analyzing its characteristics of the stress-strain behavior, the “jumping” phenomenon, the volumetric strain, and the shear strength parameters via a large-scale direct shear test. …”
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Spatiotemporal range dynamics and conservation optimization for endangered medicinal plants in the Himalaya by Fu-Lv Liu, Winnie Wanjiku Mambo, Jie Liu, Guang-Fu Zhu, Raees Khan, Abdullah, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Lu Lu

“…Global climate change threatens the spatiotemporal distribution and resilience of species, especially those in mountainous regions. The Himalaya, a global biodiversity hotspot, harbors one of the richest medicinal plant communities, which are economically significant and contribute to human well-being through their health benefits. …”
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OW-YOLO: An Improved YOLOv8s Lightweight Detection Method for Obstructed Walnuts by Haoyu Wang, Lijun Yun, Chenggui Yang, Mingjie Wu, Yansong Wang, Zaiqing Chen

“…Walnut detection in mountainous and hilly regions often faces significant challenges due to obstructions, which adversely affect model performance. …”
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Robust Time-Series InSAR Deformation Monitoring by Integrating Variational Mode Decomposition and Gated Recurrent Units by Peifeng Ma, Zeyu Jiao, Zherong Wu

“…However, the original TS-InSAR measurements, being a superposition of trend, seasonal, and noise signals, often suffer from outlier and annual seasonal variations due to the influences of atmospheric delay, especially in coastal and mountainous areas, resulting in skewed monitoring if neglected. …”
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Alternate partial root-zone irrigation combined with nitrogen fertilizer: An adaptive surge root irrigation and nitrogen strategy to improve apple yield, water-nitrogen use efficie... by Kun Hao, Wei Zhang, Shijiang Zhu, Youliang Peng, Yun Zhong, Feilong Jie, Lihua Liu, Yalin Gao, Lin Zhou, Chuang Liu, Fangyuan Shen

“…A reasonable combination of water and nitrogen application under appropriate and use of water-saving irrigation techniques is essential for improving the apple quality and yield in the mountainous areas of the Loess Plateau. This study, which was conducted from 2019 to 2020, utilized seven-year-old Hanfu apples as experimental material. …”
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Simulation of Flax Threshing Process by Different Forms of Threshing Drums in Combined Harvesting by Ruijie Shi, Leilei Chang, Wuyun Zhao, Fei Dai, Zhenwei Liang

“…These findings indicate that the T₂ model has a higher potential for flax harvesting in hilly and mountainous regions, especially in improving threshing efficiency and operational stability, providing an important theoretical basis for optimizing threshing equipment design.…”
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Carbon finance for forest resilience in California by Micah Elias, Ethan Yackulic, Katharyn Duffy, Katharyn Duffy, Phil Saksa, Daniel L. Sanchez, Nicholas Pevzner, Spencer Plumb, Jillian Dyszynski, Carina Bracer

“…Restoring a resilient forest structure in California’s American River watershed in the Sierra Nevada mountains can generate up to $6,100 per acre in carbon revenue from increased forest carbon and market-ready biomass utilization pathways, potentially fully funding forest management. …”
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Production-living-ecological functions measurement and spatio-temporal evolution of the coastal zone under the perspective of land-sea coordination: a case study of Liaoning Coasta... by Lina Ke, Lei Wang, Quanming Wang, Zhiyu Ren, Yao Lu, Shusheng Yin, Yu Zhao, Qin Tan, Yibo Li

“…The results show that: (1) The production and living spaces on land are concentrated near the coastline, and the ecological space is mainly distributed in the mountainous forest area. The sea is dominated by the production space, and the living and ecological spaces occupy a relatively small proportion. (2) While the land has significant multifunctionality, the sea has a single PLEF, with the production function dominating and accounting for more than 90%. (3) In the period 2005–2010, the frequency of mutual transformation of the different PLES was the highest. …”
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Tracing the Origin of Groundwater Nitrate in an Area Affected by Acid Rain Using Dual Isotopic Composition of Nitrate by Tianming Huang, Zhenbin Li, Baoqiang Ma, Yin Long

“…This study evaluated the dual isotopic composition of nitrate (δ15N-NO3- and δ18O-NO3-) from precipitation to groundwater in a rural mountainous area affected by acid rain. The average concentration for NH4+ is 1.25 mg/L and NO3- is 2.59 mg/L of acid rain. …”
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Triple burden of malnutrition among Vietnamese 0·5–11-year-old children in 2020–2021: results of SEANUTS II Vietnam by Nga Thuy Tran, Van Khanh Tran, Duong Thanh Tran, Tu Tran Ngoc Nguyen, Son Duy Nguyen, Ha Thu Nguyen, Tu Song Nguyen, Tung Van Thanh Le, Phuong Thi Lan Nguyen, Hanh Thi Dang, Hoa Anh Le, Gerard Wong, Ilse Khouw

“…Setting: A multistage cluster systematic random sampling method was implemented in different regions in Vietnam: North Mountainous, Central Highlands, Red River Delta, North Central and Coastal Area, Southeast and Mekong River Delta. …”
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Genetic diversity of Rhododendron dauricum based on morphological traits and SSR markers by Dan Wang, Ying Ma, Xueli Zhao, Ling Wang

“…Wild R. dauricum populations are mainly distributed in Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains in Heilongjiang, China. The diversity of R. dauricum germplasm resources in these areas has not been determined and it can be dynamic due to increasing climate change and human activities, which poses a challenge to effective conservation efforts. …”
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Spatial Distribution of the Probability of Satisfying the Chill Requirements of Pistachio in Iran Using ERA5-Land Reanalysis Data by Ebrahim Asadi Oskouei, Saeedeh Kouzegaran, Mansoureh Kouhi, Hossein Hokmabadi, Mohsen Eslami

“…The results showed the Kalle-Ghuchi cultivar could be potentially cultivated in almost every location of Iran, except coastal and mountainous areas where the chilling requirements would not be met. …”
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Coupling analysis of multi-systems urbanization: Evidence from China by Junqiang Luo, Weijing Ma, Shuang An, Zining Zhang, Yanchuan Fu, Hejun Huang, Genying Chang

“…Low-coordination cities are mainly found in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the border areas of Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, and Hubei, the Hetao area of the Yellow River Basin, the agricultural regions of the Huanghuaihai Plain, and the southeastern hilly and mountainous areas. (2) The degree of uneven urbanization development initially expands and then contracts, with intra-regional imbalances following the pattern: “Eastern Coastal Area > Northeast Area > Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River Area > Northern Coastal Area > Middle Reaches of the Yellow River Area > Southwest Area > Southern Coastal Area > Northwest Area.” (3) The coupling and coordinated development of urbanization is closely related to the economic foundation and production energy usage. …”
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Complete chloroplast genomes of 13 species of the Impatiens genus for genomic features and phylogenetic relationships studies by Qinqin Yong, Meijun Li, Zhi Li, Chao Luo, Jinling Zhang, Xinxiang Bai

“…Abstract Impatiens spp. are well-known ornamental and medicinal plants that are widely distributed in the highlands and mountains of southwestern China. This area is one of the hotspots for the distribution of Impatiens species, with typical karst landforms and abundant wild resources. …”
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Enhancing environmental models with a new downscaling method for global radiation in complex terrain by A. Druel, J. Ruffault, H. Davi, A. Chanzy, O. Marloie, M. De Cáceres, A. Olioso, F. Mouillot, C. François, K. Soudani, N. K. Martin-StPaul

“…The influences of surrounding mountains' shade on direct radiation and the “bowl” (deep valley) effect (or sky-view factor) on diffuse radiation are then considered. …”
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Altitudinal patterns of bacterial communities across soil layers in the alpine meadows of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by Zhiyuan Chen, Yeteng Xu, Xinyue Wang, Tong Ma, Yang Liu, Xiang Qin, Wei Zhang, Tuo Chen, Guangxiu Liu, Binglin Zhang

“…This study employed high-throughput sequencing to examine bacterial communities across various soil layers along an altitudinal gradient in the alpine meadow ecosystem of the Qilian Mountains. The α-diversity of surface soil bacteria demonstrated a hump-shaped altitudinal trend (P < 0.05), whereas subsurface bacterial α-diversity followed a U-shaped distribution along the altitude gradient (P < 0.001). …”
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Phytocenotic arrangement of the common hop in the south of western Siberia by M. M. Silantyeva, O. N. Mironenko, N. V. Ovcharova, I. G. Chukhina, Yu. R. Poltaratskaya, A. V. Nebylitsa, O. V. Bychkova, E. P. Myakisheva

“…Over the southwest of Siberia, common hop presently occurs within various phytocenoses situated in the steppe and forest-steppe zones, and the southern taiga subzone of the forest zone, from low to medium mountains. Hop has a significant range of habitats, from undisturbed forest phytocenoses to urbanized areas. …”
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Development of the algal pigment-based salinity transfer function for lakes on the Tibetan Plateau and evaluation of the quantitative reconstruction by Xinyao Sun, Qi Lin, Chenliang Du, Shixin Huang, Ke Zhang, Ji Shen

“…Fossil pigments in lake sediments have been widely used to track the response process of algae communities to climatic and environmental changes, but their potential in quantitative reconstructions is rarely explored, particularly in remote mountains with monitoring data scarcity. Here, the relationship between water environmental variables and surface sediment pigment assemblage identified by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) covering 95 Tibetan lake sampling sites was investigated based on multivariate statistical analysis. …”
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