This paper has three parts. The first part will summarise two decades of personal research in the fields of high altitude archaeology and anthropology of sacred mountains and provide an overview of the multiplicity of ways ...

High mountain habitats are experiencing globally significant increases in temperature, extreme weather and climate-induced habitat loss, but predicting impacts to birds is hampered by the limited information regarding avian ...

Purpose Hypoxia has been shown to reduce energy intake and lead to weight loss, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. The aim was therefore to assess changes in eating after rapid ascent to 4,559 m and to investigate ...

Ever since the establishment of national boundaries, the Andes have been defined as a "natural" and uninhabited space that determines where one country ends and another begins. The following paper examines the socio-discursive ...

The industrialized western civilization has been trained to look at mountains merely in connection to the resources that they offer to the humans: the various minerals, the glaciers as reservoirs of water, the forested ...

Chytridiomycosis is a major threat to amphibian conservation. In Argentina, the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has been recorded in several localities, and recently, it was registered in amphibians ...

Family farming plays a fundamental role in food production. However, it faces rapid processes of social-environmental change, such as the application of hegemonic agrarian modernization policies and restrictions on the ...

The number, size, and shape of lakes are key determinants of the ecological functionality of a lake district. The lake area scaling relationships with lake number and volume enable upscaling biogeochemical processes and ...

For centuries, if not millennia, people of the Andes have venerated their ice-capped mountains, which harbor within their glaciers the sacred waters upon which all life in the region is dependent. It is a tradition evident ...

Periglacial processes and features occur at high elevations inthe mountains of the Sierras Subandinas, Sierras Pampeanas,Cordillera Oriental, Puna and Cordillera del Límite of Argentina(22?28°S, 65?68°W). This paper outlines ...