All articles for the topic: mountain ecosystem services

Field work at a plot in La Mucuy, Venezuela

Integrating theory and data in South America ecosystems

Learn about the empirical and theoretical approaches currently used to quantify the ecosystem service provision in South American montane forests and alpine environments. A broad roadmap for the creation of a trandisciplinary network that can bridge the gap between the needs of modelling and data availability is proposed, in order to facilitate the implementation of mountain vegetation into Dynamic Global Vegetation Models that are used in Earth System Models.

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Allgäuer Moorallianz in a lime green square with a brown outline of a spiky tree above.

Allgäuer Moorallianz

The Allgäuer Moorallianz is a major nature conservation project. The aim of large-scale nature conservation projects is to protect important landscapes and habitats nationwide and to preserve them

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Mountain with a snowy peak and a pink cloud sky

IPCC WGII Sixth Assessment Report Cross-Chapter Paper 5: Mountains

Explore the new evidence on observed and projected climate change impacts in mountain regions, their associated key risks and adaptation measures in this IPCC cross-chapter paper on mountains.

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Cover photo: Goods had to be transported by boat after the Atta Abad landslide flooded 25 km of the Karakoram Highway, Pakistan, in 2010 (D. Butz)

Safer lives and livelihoods in mountains

This publication highlights 15 cases of good practice in development and applied research from mountain regions, and illustrates how the Sendai Framework’s four priorities can be put into practice. 

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