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Mountains under Pressure

Mountain forests and alpine ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and endemism, and they are also large global carbon stores. They are highly threatened by climate change, population growth and land use change. Mountains represent an ideal natural laboratory in which the evolution of social–ecological...

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Language:English
Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
Subjects:
environmental perceptions
land function
rural space
karst mountain area
Mediterranean
Montenegro
mountain
katun
traditional architecture
vernacular heritage
transhumance
extensive cattle rearing
ecological indices
land abandonment
land management
meadows
mountain agroecosystems
mowing tolerance
mountain vegetation
pastures
spreadsheet
fractal characteristics
natural geographical features
water-facing distribution
suitable space
rural mountain settlements
population
population trends
urbanisation
sustainable development
deforestation
shifting cultivation
traditional fallow
swiddens
land-use change
spatial effects
small-scale context
socio-economic drivers
policy assessment
CAP
policy trade-offs
mitigation policies
gully agricultural production transformation
rural development
sustainable land use
geographically and temporally weighted regression
gully land consolidation
farmer
Chagga
gender
East Africa
local knowledge
Kilimanjaro
Hehe
Udzungwa
wealth groups
alpine and montane ecosystems
austral perspective
environmental sustainability
global change
long-term research
mountain observatories
multi-disciplinary research
social context
socio-ecological coupling
Southern Africa
model complexity
model validation
Landsat
satellite data
species distribution models
connectivity
fragmentation
Maxent
functional traits
environmental drivers
mycorrhizas
fourth corner
RLQ
Andean forests
alpine
mountains
climate change
experimental manipulations
PRISMA
precipitation
drought
vegetation
New Zealand
hill country
poplar
kānuka
agroforestry
silvopasture
soil conservation
erosion
ecosystem services
alien species
biological invasions
citizen science
elevation
species abundance
tree invasions
woody plant encroachment
adaptation strategies
ethnicity
farmers
Itombwe Mountains
perceptions
wealth group
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thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography
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