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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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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Evaluation of Work Efficiency of the Solar Power Plant Installed on the Roof of a House in Hanoi City by T. N. Nguyen, V. D. Sizov, M. P. Vu, T. T. H. Cu

“…Solar power has been applied in Vietnam since the 1990s but is mainly used for areas that were far from national power grid such as mountainous areas, islands. Small scale grid-tied solar power has been developed since 2010 and mainly is used for residential applications or small and medium scale consumers. …”
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Design and Optimization of a Lightweight and Simple Self-Propelled Crawler Potato Combine Harvester by Caichao Liu, Ning Wu, Guangseng Cheng, Feng Wu, Fengwei Gu, Lili Shi, Bing Wang

“…To address the inadequacies of mechanized potato-harvesting equipment on challenging terrains like hills, mountains, and small fields, a lightweight and simple self-propelled crawler potato combine harvester was developed based on the agronomic and harvesting requirements of potato cultivation. …”
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Habitat Quality Dynamics in Urumqi over the Last Two Decades: Evidence of Land Use and Land Cover Changes by Siying Chen, Ümüt Halik, Lei Shi, Wentao Fu, Lu Gan, Martin Welp

“…The habitat quality in the southern mountainous areas is significantly superior to that surrounding the northern Gurbantunggut Desert, and it exhibits greater stability. …”
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Historical biogeography and systematics of yellow-bellied toads (Bombina variegata), with the description of a new subspecies from the Balkans by Christophe Dufresnes, Simeon Lukanov, Sven Gippner, Johanna Ambu, Ilias Strachinis, Dragan Arsovski, Benjamin Monod-Broca, Hugo Cayuela, Petros Lymberakis, Daniele Canestrelli, Dan Cogălniceanu, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Spartak N. Litvinchuk, Tomasz Suchan, Mathieu Denoël, Daniel Jablonski

“…The analyses support four major lineages, one assigned to B. v. variegata (Carpathians and northwestern ranges), one assigned to B. v. pachypus (Apennine Peninsula), and two assigned to B. v. scabra (Dinarides, Hellenides and Balkanides vs. the Rhodope mountains). Spatiotemporal patterns of diversification suggest a role for a Late Miocene marine incursion in the Pannonian Plain (Paratethys) as the initial trigger of divergence, followed by a vicariance event in the Apennines and a “sky island” process of Pleistocene differentiation in the Balkan Peninsula. …”
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Taxonomic assessment of the Oxytropis species from South-East of Kazakhstan by S. Almerekova, S. Abugalieva, N. Mukhitdinov

“…Plant materials of O. almaatensis were collected from 2 populations in two neighboring Gorges in Trans Ili Alatau Mountains, O. glabra plant material was obtained from Herbarium of the Department of Biodiversity and Bioresources, al-Farabi Kazakh National University. …”
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Systematic qualitative proteome-wide analysis of lysine malonylation profiling in Platycodon grandiflorus by Qingshan Yang, Shaowei Xu, Weimin Jiang, Fei Meng, Shuting Wang, Zongping Sun, Na Chen, Daiyin Peng, Juan Liu, Shihai Xing

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Development Mode of Recreation Belt around the City: Ecological Authenticity or Fashion Creativity? by Liang Zhao, Yuanyuan Shen, Nailin Gu, Jingyu Dai

“…In the process of developing rural tourism, there are two distinct voices: one is to pay attention to the local complex and strive to let people “see mountains and water and remember nostalgia.” In the era of cultural tourism integration, we should promote rural tourism with culture, highlight rural culture with rural tourism, and give full play to the bridge between cultural tourism and rural cultural innovation. …”
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Diversity and Distribution of Avifauna in the Northeast of Addis Ababa, Central Ethiopia by Tamenut Desalegn, Belayneh Abebe

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Modeling and Mapping of Aboveground Biomass and Carbon Stock Using Sentinel-2 Imagery in Chure Region, Nepal by Ananta Poudel, Him Lal Shrestha, Niraj Mahat, Garima Sharma, Sahara Aryal, Rupesh Kalakheti, Basanta Lamsal

“…Accurate assessment of Aboveground Biomass (AGB) is critical for the sustainable management of forests, especially in the Chure region, a fragile and young mountainous in the lesser Himalaya of Nepal. This paper presents the modeling and mapping approach and shows how medium-resolution Sentinel-2 multispectral instrument (MSI) data can be used instead of hyperspectral data in inaccessible areas of the Chure region. …”
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Hydrological Behavior of an Infiltration-Induced Landslide in Colorado, USA by Alexandra Wayllace, Barbara Thunder, Ning Lu, Aziz Khan, Jonathan W. Godt

“…Infiltration-induced landslides are common in mountainous and hilly areas of the world. When they occur near transportation corridors, they can impact public safety, impede transport of goods and people, and damage transportation infrastructure. …”
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Multi-Disaster Hazard Analysis, The Case of Elazığ Province by Fethi Ahmet Canpolat

“…Moreover, rock falls occur more frequently in mountainous areas along the Hazarbaba-Akdağ axis due to erosion and physical dissolution. …”
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Lagorio’s Wall in the Crimea: pages of scientific activity of the geologist Oleksandr Lagorio by Dmytro Mikhalenok

“…Details of an excursion to the Crimean Mountains also led by Oleksandr Lagorio are briefly described. …”
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Land use and landscape pattern changes in the Fenhe River Basin, China by Ying Zhao, Bingqing Zhao, Fei Wang

“…Spatially, there was a significant increasing trend in NDVI, particularly in high-altitude mountainous areas where the vegetation cover mostly consisted of forests or grasslands. …”
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Quantitative impacts of climate change and human activities on grassland growth in Xinjiang, China by Hanyi Rui, Beier Luo, Ying Wang, Lin Zhu, Qinyuan Zhu

“…For the grassland reduction, human activities played a larger role. Overall, in mountainous and flat areas, human activities contributed more (64.29%) than climate change (35.71%), including activities such as grazing and urbanization.…”
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Biodiversité et viabilité de l'agriculture paysanne dans la Réserve de Biosphère Sierra de Manantlán, Mexique by Enrique J. Jardel Peláez, Sergio H. Graf Montero, Eduardo Santana C., Ricardo Ávila Palafox

“…The case of the Biosphere Reserve Sierra de Manantlán (SMBR), a mountainous region of western Mexico, shows both the potential and limitations of protected areas to conserve agro-biodiversity, i.e. the variety of both cultivated and wild species, and the different agro-ecosystems and associated habitats in the rural landscape. …”
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