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

One of the purposes of dendrogeomorphic studies is to provide long and continuous
reconstructions of mass movements and to detect climate-induced trends in process activity …

The initial employment of tree rings in geomorphic studies was simply as a dating tool and
only rarely were other environmental information and records of damage contained within …

Rockfall in high-mountain regions is thought to be changing due to accelerating climate
warming and permafrost degradation, possibly resulting in enhanced activity and larger …

Power laws fit to rockfall frequency-magnitude distributions are commonly used to
summarize rockfall inventories, but uncertainty remains regarding which variables control …

Over the past decades, integral risk management of natural hazards has become
increasingly important. Although risk analyses have been established for the design of …

Different approaches and thresholds have been utilized in the past to date landslides with
growth ring series of disturbed trees. Past work was mostly based on conifer species …

Check dams and afforestation are two common measures for debris-flow mitigation;
however, there is a lack of methods allowing quantitative evaluation of check dam and …

Trees affected by mass movements record the evidence of geomorphic disturbance in their
growth-ring series, and thereby provide a precise geochronological tool for the …

Mountain protection forests can prevent natural hazards by reducing their onset and
propagation probabilities. In fact, individual trees act as natural barriers against …