Mountain regions provide diverse goods and services to human society. At the same time,
mountain ecosystems are sensitive to rapid global development. Over the past 2 decades …

Andean cities are increasingly subjected to landslide susceptibility and events,
accompanied by population and urban growth and uncertain extreme climate events. In light …

In Nepal, community forestry is part of a national strategy for livelihoods improvement and
environmental protection. However, analysis of the social, economic and environmental …

This paper describes a spatially explicit, physically based global model for water balance. Its
key innovations include the fact that it comes with all data required for application, is very …

Awareness of potential natural vegetation (PNV) is imperative in ecological restoration.
Extensive global and national PNV simulation with coarse spatial resolution is increasingly …

Abstract Fractional Vegetation Coverage (FVC) is an essential indicator that captures
variations in vegetation and documents the impacts of climate change and human activity for …

Sustainable land-use management must account for the potential trade-offs between
biodiversity conservation, productive land uses and ecosystem services. In this study, we …

Nature-based solutions (NbS) are gaining attention as viable strategies for restoring water-
rich ecosystems such as the páramo. However, the lack of evidence on their effectiveness …

Global declines in large-bodied terrestrial vertebrates are widely linked to human
disturbance and habitat loss. Identifying remaining opportunities to conserve areas wherein …

Climate and land cover change are driving a major reorganization of terrestrial biotic
communities in tropical ecosystems. In an effort to understand how biodiversity patterns in …