Climate change aggravates the challenges of sustainable development in mountain regions and calls for deeper insights into impacts on the vulnerability of mountain people and their options for adapting to changing conditions. ...

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, ...

Large cities are both centers of demand for cultural ecosystem services (CES) and a source of environmental impacts. Assessing CES yields information to reduce the vulnerability of these services to such environmental impacts ...

Se presentan el informe del taller de trabajo Evaluación del posible impacto del cambio climático sobre la biodiversidad en ecosistemas de montaña en Cuba (proyecto “Conectando Paisajes”). The report of the workshop ...

The high mountain ecosystems of South America represent one of the main hotspots of biodiversity. There is an increasing interest in disentangling global patterns of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). Recently studies ...