Anthropogenic climate change is rapidly altering high mountain environments, including
changing the frequency, dynamic behavior, location, and magnitude of alpine mass …

The global retreat of glaciers is dramatically altering mountain and high-latitude landscapes,
with new ecosystems developing from apparently barren substrates,,–. The study of these …

Rockwall erosion by rockfall is largely controlled by frost weathering in high alpine
environments. As alpine rock types are characterized by crack‐dominated porosity and high …

High mountains are climate change hotspots. Quickly rising temperatures trigger vegetation
shifts such as upslope migration, possibly threatening mountain biodiversity. At the same …

Since the end of the 20th century, each decade has been warmer than the previous one in
the European Alps. As a consequence, Alpine rock walls are generally facing high rockfall …

In dry southwestern South Tyrol, Italy, rock glaciers are dominant landforms of the high-
mountain cryosphere. Their spatial distribution and degree of activity hold critical information …

Geomorphological evidence of incised bedrock channels is widespread in all mountain
landscapes worldwide. However, the processes controlling incision and gorge formation in …

Frost weathering is a key mechanism of rock failure in periglacial environments and
landscape evolution. In high-alpine rock walls, freezing regimes are a combination of diurnal …

Climate change is contributing to the rapid warming of mountain environments, resulting in
glacial retreat, diminished snowpacks, and permafrost thaw. Such rapid changes have …

Permafrost and active layer models often cannot explain the high spatial variability,
especially in heterogeneous environments like the mountainous regions due to their scarce …