Eriocaulaceae from Serra da Canastra, Minas Gerais, Brazil by Mariane da Silva Freitas, Marcelo Trovó, Livia Echternacht

“…Abstract Eriocaulaceae exhibit wide diversity within the Campo Rupestre, with the Serra do Espinhaço as their richest region. However, other mountain ranges featuring Campo Rupestre, like Serra da Canastra, also harbor a significant number of species. …”
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Natural hazards and urban policies in Mexico City by François Mancebo

“…Mexico City is located at an altitude of over 2 000 metres where it occupies an attractive but hazardous site hemmed in by the Sierra Madre and volcanic mountain ranges.The site is one of the most disaster-prone locations in the world, threatened by a combination of natural hazards, poorly controlled technological hazards created by the city’s heavy industry, pollution – particularly air pollution and diminishing local resources, the most seriously threatened being water. …”
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Des risques « naturels » aux politiques urbaines à Mexico by François Mancebo

“…Mexico City is located at an altitude of over 2 000 metres where it occupies an attractive but hazardous site hemmed in by the Sierra Madre and volcanic mountain ranges.The site is one of the most disaster-prone locations in the world, threatened by a combination of natural hazards, poorly controlled technological hazards created by the city’s heavy industry, pollution – particularly air pollution and diminishing local resources, the most seriously threatened being water. …”
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De l’ascension à la descension, deux manières d’aborder le paysage ? by Xavier Cailhol

“…The creation, this winter, of steep ski slopes in the Valgaudemar mountain area as well as other mountain ranges, raises the question of the notion of the landscape as a supporting space (in the sense of Joliveau, 1994) and as a kind of representation of nature. …”
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Application of the ESRI Geostatistical Analyst for Determining the Adequacy and Sample Size Requirements of Ozone Distribution Models in the Carpathian and Sierra Nevada Mountains by Witold Fraczek, Andrzej Bytnerowicz, Michael J. Arbaugh

“…Models of O3 distribution in two mountain ranges, the Carpathians in Central Europe and the Sierra Nevada in California were constructed using ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst extension (ESRI, Redlands, CA) using kriging and cokriging methods. …”
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Expériences paysagères et pratique du ski de randonnée dans les Alpes françaises by Stéphane Marpot, Laine Chanteloup, Clémence Perrin-Malterre

“…In this article, we propose to examine the landscape experiences of cross-country skiers visiting various alpine mountain ranges. We will show that, for these skiers, the landscape can be considered in several ways. …”
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Snowfall in the Northwest Iberian Peninsula: Synoptic Circulation Patterns and Their Influence on Snow Day Trends by Andrés Merino, Sergio Fernández, Lucía Hermida, Laura López, José Luis Sánchez, Eduardo García-Ortega, Estíbaliz Gascón

“…On the Iberian Peninsula, the Castilla y León region in the northwest consists of a central plateau surrounded by mountain ranges. This creates snowfalls that are considered both an important water resource and a transportation risk. …”
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Predicting climate-change impacts on the global glacier-fed stream microbiome by Massimo Bourquin, Hannes Peter, Grégoire Michoud, Susheel Bhanu Busi, Tyler J. Kohler, Andrew L. Robison, Mike Styllas, Leïla Ezzat, Aileen U. Geers, Matthias Huss, Stilianos Fodelianakis, The Vanishing Glaciers Field Team, Tom J. Battin

“…Combining 2,333 prokaryotic metagenome-assembled genomes with climatic, glaciological, and environmental data collected by the Vanishing Glaciers project from 164 GFSs draining Earth’s major mountain ranges, we here predict the future of the GFS microbiome until the end of the century under various climate change scenarios. …”
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Genetic differentiation at extreme latitudes in the socially plastic sweat bee Halictus rubicundus. by Bas A Michels, Mariska M Beekman, Jeremy Field, Jodie Gruber, Bart A Pannebakker, Charlotte Savill, Rebecca A Boulton

“…Alongside typical physical barriers, including mountain ranges and oceans, the climate may also impose restrictions on gene flow in this species. …”
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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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Geographic risk assessment of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans invasion in Costa Rica as a means of informing emergence management and mitigation. by Henry C Adams, Katherine E Markham, Marguerite Madden, Matthew J Gray, Federico Bolanos Vives, Gerardo Chaves, Sonia M Hernandez

“…The Central and Talamanca mountain ranges, in particular, have habitats predicted to be highly suitable for the pathogen. …”
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Estimating the Geological Strength Index (GSI) in Regional Seismic-Landslide Zonation Using the Empirical Regression Model by M. E. Mirabedini, E. Haghshenas, N. Ganjian

“…An empirical regression model was presented to estimate the Geological Strength Index (GSI) with an implication on geological quadrangle of Gorgan region at Alborz mountains range (north of Iran). Two main sets of data were applied in this study: (1) geomorphological data including the slope height, aspect, and distance from faults and distance from thrusts and (2) the physical and mechanical properties of rocks including the unit weight, uniaxial compressive strength (σci), and the petrographic constant (mί) of intact rock. …”
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Assessing climate sensitivity of the Upper Indus Basin using fully distributed, physically-based hydrologic modeling and multi-model climate ensemble approach by Hamna Hasan, Muhammad Zia ur Rahman Hashmi, Syed Imran Ahmed, Muneer Anees

“…Abstract The Upper Indus Basin (UIB) of Pakistan is home to three largest mountain ranges: Karakoram, Hindukush, and the Himalayas. …”
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Traces of archaic mitochondrial lineages persist in Austronesian-speaking Formosan populations. by Jean A Trejaut, Toomas Kivisild, Jun Hun Loo, Chien Liang Lee, Chun Lin He, Chia Jung Hsu, Zheng Yan Lee, Marie Lin

“…We assessed mtDNA variation in 640 individuals from nine tribes of the central mountain ranges and east coast regions of Taiwan. In contrast to the Han populations, the tribes showed a low frequency of haplogroups D4 and G, and an absence of haplogroups A, C, Z, M9, and M10. …”
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Revisiting ice-marginal positions north-east of Feldberg, southern Black Forest, south-west Germany by F. M. Hofmann, F. Preusser

“…Recent studies have shown that reconstructing former glaciers in the mid-elevation mountain ranges in central Europe, calculating equilibrium line altitudes (ELAs), and using of empirical relationships between summer temperature and precipitation at the ELAs of modern glaciers could be a promising avenue to fill this gap. …”
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New Resinogalea species from Araucaria araucana resin in Chile and reclassification of the genus in the Cryptocaliciomycetidae by Felipe Balocchi, Irene Barnes, Michael J. Wingfield, Rodrigo Ahumada, Cobus M. Visagie

“…Abstract Araucaria araucana is an ancient conifer, native to the mountain ranges in Chile and Argentina. These trees host a large number of organisms, mainly insects, strongly or even exclusively associated with them. …”
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Influence of human settlements factors on the spatial distribution patterns of traditional villages in Liaoning province by Guiqiao Tao, Xueming Li, Shenzhen Tian, Hang Li, Yishan Song

“…At the municipal scale, the distribution is relatively uneven and primarily located in the cities of Chaoyang, Jinzhou, Huludao, Panjin, Anshan, and Dalian. (3) The majority of traditional villages are distributed along the southwest–northeast axis of the standard deviation ellipse, which corresponds with the main mountain ranges of Liaoning. (4) The distribution density features a western continuous clustering, central and eastern scattered clustering, and edge clustering pattern. (5) The spatial distribution patterns of traditional villages in Liaoning are influenced by various human settlements factors, with spatial variation in the nature and intensity of the effects of these factors. (6) The natural factors of human settlements are the dominant factors in the spatial distribution patterns of traditional villages, while the humanistic factors of human settlements have a dual impact on these patterns. …”
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The added value and potential of long-term radio occultation data for climatological wind field monitoring by I. Nimac, J. Danzer, G. Kirchengast, G. Kirchengast

“…Exceptions are found in winter in the monsoonal area and above larger mountain ranges in the free troposphere, as well as above the northern polar regions in the mid-stratosphere. …”
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Relationship Between a Heavy Rainfall and Gravity Wave in Sichuan Basin by Xu Yizhou, Li Guoping, Zhang Xiaoyu, Xie Xin, Dong Yuanchang

“…Numerical experiments conducted on flattening various mountain ranges in the southern part of the Basin indicate that precipitation initially occurs in the transition zone between the northern foothills and the plain. …”
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The very-high-resolution configuration of the EC-Earth global model for HighResMIP by E. Moreno-Chamarro, E. Moreno-Chamarro, E. Moreno-Chamarro, T. Arsouze, T. Arsouze, M. Acosta, P.-A. Bretonnière, M. Castrillo, E. Ferrer, A. Frigola, D. Kuznetsova, E. Martin-Martinez, P. Ortega, S. Palomas

“…In contrast to LR and HR, VHR shows a reduced equatorial Pacific cold tongue bias, an improved Gulf Stream representation with a reduced coastal warm bias and a reduced subpolar North Atlantic cold bias, and more realistic orographic precipitation over mountain ranges. By contrast, VHR shows a larger warm bias and overly low sea ice extent over the Southern Ocean. …”
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