This special issue of Quaternary International concerns the Human Occupations in Mountain Environments (hereafter HOME). This topic gives the name of one of the commissions of the International Union of Prehistoric and ...

High mountain areas are critical for water security and natural hazard dynamics, as well as glacier and ecosystem conservation in a warming world. We present a brief account of the methodological steps for geomorphological ...

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 ...

This article analyzes the resulting geographic, socioeconomic and political environment from the predominance of an extensive network of roads that articulated the territory between the Pacific Coast to the Plains of ...

In this chapter the role of mountain ecosystems in the dynamics and fate of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) will be described. POPs are a group of chemicals released into the environment by anthropogenic processes, ...