Description of a new leaf litter toad of Leptobrachella (Anura, Megophryidae) from Hunan, China by Jie Huang, Fang-Peng Zhang, Wan-Sheng Jiang, Yong-Xiang Tian, Xing-Long Huang, Ya-Lan Xu, Jing Liu, Xin-Yu Li, You-Xiang Zhang, Tao Wu

“…The discovery of the new species not only enhances the species diversity of the Wuling Mountains, but also suggests the hidden species diversity in the area.…”
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Filtering Data of High-Resolution Terrestrial Laser Scanner and Effects of Filtrations on the Landslide Monitoring by Mustafa Zeybek, İsmail Şanlıoğlu, Aşır Genç

“…Research was carried out on a landslide zone which occurred in the Middle Taurus Mountains. When previous studies were examined, deformations reaching up to 5m were formed in the region. …”
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Mine Geological Environment Monitoring and Risk Assessment in Arid and Semiarid Areas by Jiaqi Jin, Chicheng Yan, Yixuan Tang, Yilong Yin

“…From the distribution of surface subsidence in the study area, surface subsidence disasters mainly occur in the eastern and central mountainous areas rich in coal resources, as well as in the mining areas west of the Yellow River, and the subsidence basins are distributed in a series of irregular concentric ovals. …”
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Diurnal Variation Characteristics of Raindrop Size Distribution Observed by a Parsivel2 Disdrometer in the Ili River Valley by Yufei Jiang, Lianmei Yang, Jiangang Li, Yong Zeng, Zepeng Tong, Xiaomeng Li, Haoyang Li

“…The purpose of this study is to advance our understanding of precipitation microphysics in arid mountainous region.…”
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Identification of Heat Waves and Analysis of Their Temporal-Spatial Variations in Iran by Nasibeh Baharvandi, Firouz Mojarrad, Jafar Masompour

“…The results of the study showed that the highest number of heat waves occurs in the western part of the Zagros Mountains and then the Kavir Plain; while the maximum magnitude of heat waves belong to the south-east and central parts of the country. …”
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Experimental Study of Site-Specific Soil Water Content and Rainfall Inducing Shallow Landslides: Case of Gakenke District, Rwanda by Martin Kuradusenge, Santhi Kumaran, Marco Zennaro, Albert Niyonzima

“…They are mostly triggered by rainfall in mountainous areas where precipitation used to be abundant. …”
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Design and Implementation of a Chatbot for Kurdish Language Speakers Using Chatfuel Platform by Hemn Karim Ahmed, Jamal Ali Hussein

“…The proposed chatbot is tested on an electronic tourist guide that helps visitors to the religious places in the mountainous village of Barzanja that is located in Iraqi Kurdistan. …”
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Landslide Susceptibility Zonation Mapping Using Machine Learning Algorithms and Statistical Prediction at Hunza Watershed Basin, Pakistan by A. Khan, G. Khan, M. Minhas, S. A. Hussain Gardezi, J. Ahmed and N. Abbas

“…The mountainous region of the Hunza River watershed basin, especially along the Karakorum highway, and also known as a third pole for the high accumulation of glaciers, which leads to huge devastating landslides occurring every year. …”
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Spatiotemporal patterns and driving factors of NDVI changes in the central and Western Asia economic corridor over the past decade by Kaimin Wang, Kaimin Wang, Min Xu, Shaohua Wang, Lin Wang, Haijing Tian, Sornkitja Boonprong, Xiaotong Gao, Xiaotong Gao, Xinwei Yang, Heyi Guo, Heyi Guo, Jingbo Li, Jingbo Li, Yujie Yang, Yujie Yang, Ruichen Hu, Ruichen Hu, Yu Zhang, Yu Zhang, Chunxiang Cao

“…Significant degradation was observed in the hilly areas of northern Kazakhstan, the low-altitude areas bordering the Tian Shan and Hindu Kush mountains, and the central part of the corridor. Conversely, significant restoration was concentrated in the hinterland of Kazakhstan and the coastal areas of the Caspian Sea. …”
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Presence of the Anopheles culicifacies complex species A in southeast Iran by Seyed Massoud Madjdzadeh, Nahid Behi, Mohammad Amin Gorouhi, Arsalan Amirkafi, Mohammad Ali Oshaghi

“…Results Data analysis revealed a positive correlation between An. culicifacies s.l. specimens and altitude, with most specimens collected from mountainous areas. Both allele-specific PCR and sequencing PCR confirmed the presence of species A in the study areas of Kerman Province. …”
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Defining the sensitivity of cosmic ray muons to groundwater storage changes by Tramontini, Matías, Rosas-Carbajal, Marina, Zyserman, Fabio Iván,  Longuevergne, Laurent, Nussbaum, Christophe, Marteau, Jacques

“…In this work we employ for the first time, the muography method to investigate groundwater variations at the scale of 100 m. We study a mountainous karstic aquifer in the Mont Terri Underground Rock Laboratory (URL), Switzerland. …”
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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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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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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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