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, ...

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 ...

Land conversion affects the delivery of ecosystem goods and services. In this study, we used a 50 years time series of land cover maps to assess the potential impacts of forest cover changes on ecosystem services. A ...