The cryosphere is an important component of global organic contaminant cycles. Snow is an
efficient scavenger of atmospheric organic pollutants while a seasonal snowpack, sea ice …

Mountain ecosystems are sensitive and reliable indicators of climate change. Long-term
studies may be extremely useful in assessing the responses of high-elevation ecosystems to …

Upland waters are located upstream of the areas of direct human disturbance and intensive
land use through industry, agriculture and urbanisation and are valued particularly as …

Sediment accumulation rate (SAR) is an important physical parameter in all lakes and
increases have been observed in many over the last c. 100 years. This has been ascribed to …

Glaciers and rock glaciers supply water and bioavailable nutrients to headwater mountain
lakes and streams across all regions of the American West. Here we present a comparative …

Although anthropogenic activities affect the ecological conditions of mountain lakes
worldwide, the impacts on human wellbeing, in terms of ecosystem services provided by …

We investigated modern-littoral and subfossil sediment-core diatoms in the shallow (max
depth 6.4 m) high-mountain Lake Balma in the Orsiera Rocciavrè Nature Park (Italian …

High altitude lakes (HALs) of Kashmir Himalaya are the important ecosystems in the
mountain ecology of the broader Hindukush Himalayan region. This article provides a …

The south‐east margin of Tibet is highly sensitive to global environmental change
pressures, in particular, high contemporary reactive nitrogen (Nr) deposition rates (ca. 40 kg …

The study mainly focuses on heavy metals' quantification, investigation of physicochemical
characteristics, source apportionments, human health risk assessment, and connectivity …