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New Mountain Research and Development issue now online

13.03.2014

Papers in Volume 34, Issue 1, which is now available online and open access, address issues from governance to human-nature interaction and assessments of biophysical dynamics in mountains. They explore how international environmental initiatives focusing on mountains have helped shape region-building in southeast Europe; how ecotourism unintentionally brings non-native plants to Aconcagua Park, Argentina, on vehicles, clothing, and in pack animals’ dung; how indigenous soil and water conservation practices in Sikkim, India, still pay off today; which areas along the Upper Mekong River in Yunnan, China, are most affected by soil erosion; how regression equations, land use maps, and digital elevation models can be combined to determine rainfall erosivity across Costa Rica on a watershed scale; and why the glacier area in the Fedchenko glacier system in Tajikistan has increased slightly between 1992 and 2006. The issue also provides an overview of what the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) is doing on sustainable mountain development and watershed management.

Volume 34, Issue 1 is available online and open access: http://www.bioone.org/toc/mred/34/1

Read about the journal’s section policies, guidelines, and submission procedure at: http://www.mrd-journal.org/