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July issue of eco.mont journal now available

15.07.2016

The July 2016 issue of “eco.mont – The Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management” is now available online. The journal was founded as a joint initiative of the Alpine Network of Protected Areas (ALPARC), the International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps (ISCAR), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the University of Innsbruck. It offers a platform specifically for scientists and practitioners working in and on protected mountain areas in Europe and overseas where to publish their work. Target audiences of the journal are scientists from all related disciplines, managers of protected areas and an interested public including practitioners, visitors and teachers.

This issue of “eco.mont” has an emphasis on articles with a comparative approach:
• Peter Strasser takes a closer look at the many types of protection found in the Alpine Convention area.
• Chiao Yin et al. examine fish diversity across 14 nature reserves in Jiangxi Province, China.
• Isabelle Arpin et al. look at the role and diverse composition, organization, activities and formation of scientific councils in protected areas in the Alps.
• Eduard Inglès Yuba et al. analyse governance in conflict situations triggered by sports practice in two protected mountain areas in Catalonia, Spain.
• Daniel Kreiner and Alexander Maringer look back on ten years of published research in Gesäuse National Park, with a thematic focus on management-relevant research as well as on vertebrates and higher plants within the forests.
• Joanna Siwek reports on the effect of wastewater from tourist lodges on the streams in Tatra National Park in Poland.
• Axel Borsdorf et al. track the encroachment of real estate activities on the Dunes of Concón, Chile.
• Michael Duda summarizes landscape management measures to support land snails in Wienerwald Biosphere Reserve.

The July 2016 issue of “eco.mont” was published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press and Innsbruck University Press, and new issues are published biannually. Those interested in publishing a paper are invited to visit the “eco.mont” website www.oeaw.ac.at/ecomont/ for more information.

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