Extensively managed grasslands are recognized globally for their high biodiversity and their
social and cultural values. However, their capacity to deliver multiple ecosystem services …

High altitude grazing is widespread around the globe and also has a long tradition in
European mountain regions. One-third of the Swiss farmland consists of summer pastures …

Recent declines in biodiversity have given new urgency to questions about the relationship
between land‐use change, biodiversity and ecosystem processes. Despite the existence of …

Scenic beauty of mountain landscapes contributes to human well-being. Valuation of natural
scenery and specific landscape properties by perception studies is complex and time …

Serving as “natural laboratories”, altitudinal gradients can be used to study changes in the
distribution of microorganisms in response to changing environmental conditions that …

Since 1990, a series of fundamental political and socioeconomic transformations in
Romania have led to important structural and functional changes in the land use/cover …

Geomatics and satellite remote sensing offer useful analysis tools for several technical-
scientific fields. This work, with reference to a regional case of study, investigates remote …

The deterioration of alpine grassland has great impact on ecosystem services in the alpine
region of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. However, the effect of grassland degradation on …

Three themes in global mountain geomorphology have been defined and reinforced over
the past decade:(a) new ways of measuring, sensing, and analyzing mountain …

This study aims at (1) detecting the main agricultural land-use/land-cover (LULC) trends that
have occurred across the Alps since the 19th century and (2) assessing how landscape …