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Mountain pastures increase the resilience of livestock farming to extreme events in the Ariège department, France
Mountain pastures are embedded in highly sensitive mountain ecosystems and provide forage for livestock during summer. In years when forage in the...
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Agro-climatic profiles of summer mountain pastures in the French Alps: towards a monitoring tool to contribute to climate risk assessment
Summer mountain pastures (also called alpages ) are a central element for many agro-pastoral livestock systems in the alpine region, by providing the...
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The Palatability of Plant Communities as One of the Criteria for the Qualitative Assessment of Pastures in Mongolia
AbstractThe study of the state and economic value of pasture ecosystems in Mongolia in the context of their progressive degradation continues to be...
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Nitrogen translocation by Highland cattle grazing in Alnus viridis-encroached pastures
During the last decades, Alnus viridis has expanded over former montane pastures and meadows, due to land use and abandonment. This nitrogen-fixing...
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Management linked to ecological intensification supports insect pollinators in Iberian wood-pastures
ContextIberian wood-pastures ( dehesas ) constitute important habitats for flower-visiting insects, thus supporting the delivery of essential...
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Forest management and former land use have no effect on soil fungal diversity in uneven-aged mountain high forests
Key messageMetabarcoding analysis of soil fungal communities in French mountain forests revealed that harvesting intensity, time since last harvest...
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Structure of dung beetle assemblages (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in native forest and exotic pastures in the Southwest of the Brazilian Amazon
The implementation of exotic pastures is responsible for significant deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. The pasturelands in the Amazon are...
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Lowland and Mountain Heaths
As ecosystems created by traditional land use in past centuries, lowland and mountain heaths in Central and Western Europe today have a high nature...
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Same, but different: similar states of forest structure in temperate mountain regions of Europe despite different social-ecological forest disturbance regimes
ContextEcosystem services provided by mountain forests are critically linked to forest structure. Social-ecological disturbance regimes (i.e., the...
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Plant Invasion Dynamics in Mountain Ecosystems Under Changing Climate Scenario
Under changing climate scenario, it is anticipated that the distribution of various native and invasive species will be shifting to different novel...
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Dynamics of Microbiological Diversity of Soils in the Chu Valley during Land Use Change in Pastures
AbstractSoil microflora is one of the first to feel a negative impact and can serve as a biological indicator of changes in the soil structure and...
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Vegetation overview of meadows and pastures of north-west Šar-Planina Mountain (Serbia)
This paper is the result of years of research flora and vegetation of Šar-Planina Mountain state monitoring, endeavoring to preserve and improve this...
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World Heritage and Mountain Sites
This chapter focuses on UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage Sites considered as mountain...
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Population trend and distribution of mountain (Lepus timidus) and brown hares (Lepus europaeus) in Central Alps (N-Italy, 1980–2020)
Mountainous regions are very vulnerable to climate changes, as they experience higher temperature increases than the surrounding environments. A...
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Same landscape, different connectivity: contrasting patterns of gene flow in two sympatric ungulates in a mountain area
Comparative landscape genetics studies provide insights on the impact of landscape elements on gene flow patterns of different species inhabiting the...
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Population Structure of the Snow Sheep (Ovis nivicola, Artiodactyla, Bovidae) in the Kodar Mountain Ridge, Transbaikalia, Russia
AbstractA small isolated population of the snow sheep ( Ovis nivicola Eschscholtz 1829) inhabits the Kodar Mountain Ridge in Transbaikalia; it has...
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Tropical grass and legume pastures may alter lamb meat physical and chemical characteristics
The present study assessed the influence of the type of the tropical pastures on lamb body weight (BW) gain and meat quality. Fifty-four lambs were...
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Mountain sheep grazing systems provide multiple ecological, socio-economic, and food quality benefits
Pastoral systems face increasing pressure from competing global markets, food sector industrialization, and new policies such as Europe’s post-2020...
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Mountain Waterscapes: Geographies of Interactions, Transformations, and Meanings
Mountains play key roles in the world’s water cycle. They interact with the atmosphere to capture water and, as the world’s “water towers,” store and...
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Alternative states in the structure of mountain forests across the Alps and the role of disturbance and recovery
ContextStructure is a central dimension of forest ecosystems that is closely linked to their capacity to provide ecosystem services. Drivers such as...
