To warm on the rocks, to cool in the wind: Thermal relations of a small-sized lizard from a mountain environment

This HKH Call to Action is based on the HKH Assessment, which was drafted in response to requests from governments in the region, meeting a demand for a comprehensive assessment of the region’s mountains, environments, and livelihoods and proposes actions towards a shared vision for the future of the HKH region, in which its societies and its people are prosperous, healthy, peaceful, and resilient in a healthy environment. To realize this vision, this HKH Call to Action elaborates six urgent actions, including: 1) promote and strengthen regional cooperation at all levels to sustain mountain environment and livelihoods; 2) recognize and prioritize the uniqueness of the HKH mountain people; 3) take concerted climate actions; 4) take accelerated actions to achieve the SDGs, consistent with the nine mountain priorities; 5) take decisive actions to enhance ecosystem resilience; and 6) promote regional data and information sharing.

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Supplementary material to "Glacier-permafrost relations in a high-mountain environment: 5 decades of kinematic monitoring at the Gruben site, Swiss Alps"

10.5194/tc-2021-208-supplement ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Isabelle Gärtner-Roer ◽

Nina Brunner ◽

Reynald Delaloye ◽

Wilfried Haeberli ◽

Andreas Kääb ◽

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Keyword(s):

Swiss Alps ◽

High Mountain ◽

Mountain Environment ◽

Supplementary Material

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Probabilistic downscaling of precipitation data in a subtropical mountain area: a two-step approach

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics ◽

10.5194/npg-18-223-2011 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 223-234 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

R. Haas ◽

K. Born

Keyword(s):

Complex Terrain ◽

Large Scale ◽

Distribution Functions ◽

Data Availability ◽

Cumulative Distribution ◽

Second Step ◽

Mountain Area ◽

Investigation Area ◽

Distribution Parameters ◽

Mountain Environment

Abstract. In this study, a two-step probabilistic downscaling approach is introduced and evaluated. The method is exemplarily applied on precipitation observations in the subtropical mountain environment of the High Atlas in Morocco. The challenge is to deal with a complex terrain, heavily skewed precipitation distributions and a sparse amount of data, both spatial and temporal. In the first step of the approach, a transfer function between distributions of large-scale predictors and of local observations is derived. The aim is to forecast cumulative distribution functions with parameters from known data. In order to interpolate between sites, the second step applies multiple linear regression on distribution parameters of observed data using local topographic information. By combining both steps, a prediction at every point of the investigation area is achieved. Both steps and their combination are assessed by cross-validation and by splitting the available dataset into a trainings- and a validation-subset. Due to the estimated quantiles and probabilities of zero daily precipitation, this approach is found to be adequate for application even in areas with difficult topographic circumstances and low data availability.

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The Pastures of the Bénou Plateau (Bilhères-en-Ossau), France. One Form of Exploitation of Salt Resources in a Mountain Environment

Continuity and Change in Cultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments - Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation ◽

10.1007/978-1-4614-5702-2_4 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 31-42

Author(s):

Jean-François Chopin ◽

Jean-Claude Roux ◽

David Billon

Keyword(s):

Mountain Environment

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The First Neolithic Occupation of La Cova del Randero (Pedreguer, Alicante, Spain)

Open Archaeology ◽

10.1515/opar-2020-0206 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 1492-1505

Author(s):

Consuelo Roca de Togores Muñoz ◽

Laura M. Sirvent Cañada ◽

Silvia Martínez Amorós ◽

Olga Gómez Pérez ◽

Virginia Barciela González ◽

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Keyword(s):

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Ovis Aries ◽

Upper Palaeolithic ◽

Early Neolithic ◽

Specific Nature ◽

Environmental Characteristics ◽

Farming Communities ◽

Multidisciplinary Study ◽

Pastoral Communities ◽

Mountain Environment

Abstract The excavations at “Cova del Randero” (Pedreguer, Alicante, Spain) began in 2007 within the programme of archaeological interventions of the Archaeological Museum of Alicante. The cavity, located in one of the valleys that connect the coast with the inland mountains, presents a wide sequence of occupations that begins in the Upper Palaeolithic and continues throughout the different phases of the Neolithic. The results of a multidisciplinary study, carried out in an archaeological context associated with the first Neolithic presence of the cavity, are presented here. This occupation is defined by a unique combustion structure to which a set of artefacts and biofacts are linked. This archaeological context, probably of a specific nature, is related to the first agro-pastoral communities settled in the area. The fireplace is well defined stratigraphically and sedimentologically because of its reddish soil, which corresponds to hunter-gatherer occupation levels of the cavity, and under the greyish sediments that characterise the use of the cave as a fold during the Middle Neolithic. This occupation event was dated both by the associated materials, among which a fragment of cardial ceramic was found, and by radiocarbon dating of a metacarpus of Ovis aries around 5075–4910 cal BC (epicardial Early Neolithic). This data allows us to link the occupation of the cavity at this time with pastoral activity in a medium mountain environment. However, it also allows us to infer the environmental characteristics in which the first farming communities of the mountains of Alicante were developed.

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Loss of Tree Biomass in Jure Landslide, Sindhupalchowk, Nepal

Journal of Institute of Science and Technology ◽

10.3126/jist.v21i1.16052 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 65-70

Author(s):

Smrita Acharya ◽

Udhab Raj Khadka

Keyword(s):

Tree Species ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Allometric Equation ◽

Total Biomass ◽

Tree Biomass ◽

Loss Mitigation ◽

Shorea Robusta ◽

Mountainous Regions ◽

Mountain Environment ◽

Total Tree

Landslide causes massive loss of lives and properties along with intangible losses in mountainous regions. Yet such intangible losses in ecosystems are rarely considered. The present study assesses the tree biomass lost due to Jure landslide in Sindhupalchowk that destroyed 71 hectare of land. Altogether, 12 plots (250 m2) were sampled through systematic and purposive sampling technique. The total tree biomass was estimated using allometric equation. The study recorded 21 tree species in which Schimawallichiii (Korth.), Lagerstroemia parviflora (Roxb.), Shorea robusta (Gaertn.), Alnus nepalensis (D. Don), Phyllanthus emblica (Linn.) and Celtius australis (Linn.) were dominant. Schima wallichiii had the highest density (320 individual ha-1) and frequency (92%). The total biomass of tree species was 216 ton ha-1 in which Schima wallichiii constituted the highest total tree biomass (82 ton ha-1). In 71 ha landslide area, the landslide caused loss of 15,336 tons of total tree biomass, which equals to 56,283 tons CO2 equivalents. These findings are relevant for assessing post-landslide impacts on the mountain environment. Furthermore, to reduce carbon emissions resulting from forest loss, mitigation of landslide is crucial.Journal of Institute of Science and TechnologyVol. 21, No. 1, 2016,Page: 65-70

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