Biophysical landscapes of the Río La Virgen watershed in the Ocosingo municipality, Chiapas, Mexico by Elí Obed Gutiérrez-Solís, Horacio Morales-Iglesias, Luis Giovanni Ramírez-Sánchez, Ángel Guadalupe Priego-Santander, Miguel Ángel Alatorre-Ibargüengoitia

“…The main differentiating factors of the landscapes are the tectonics processes, which generate tectonic-karstic and tectonic-accumulative mountains; however, the inventory also reports landscapes of fluvio-torrential and fluvio-accumulative origin in temperate humid, semi-warm humid, and warm humid climates. …”
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Late Pleistocene to Holocene glacial, periglacial, and paraglacial geomorphology of the upper Río Limarí basin (30–31° S) in the Andes of central Chile by Javiera Carraha, Juan-Luis García, Samuel U. Nussbaumer, Hans Fernández-Navarro, Isabelle Gärtner-Roer

“…We present a field-based reconstruction of the geomorphology in the Subtropical Andean mountains of the Limarí basin, semiarid central Chile (30–31° S). …”
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BICYCLE TOURISM IN COUNTY OF ŠIBENIK-KNIN by Darijo Šego, Ana-Mari Poljičak, Martina Ljubić Hinić

“…Attractive and diverse natural environment, rich cultural and historical heritage, favorable climate, proximity to large markets, good transport links, poorly used macadam roads, and forest roads unburdened by hiking and mountaineering demand, provide the Republic of Croatia and the County of Šibenik-Knin with many advantages for the development of this form of tourism.…”
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The Process‐Oriented Understanding on the Reduced Double‐ITCZ Bias in the High‐Resolution CESM1 by Enze Dong, Fengfei Song, Lixin Wu, Lu Dong, Shengpeng Wang, Fukai Liu, Hong Wang

“…The better representation of terrain, such as Andes Mountains, elevates warm advection from inland to the coastal region, which maintains the inversion structure favorable for low cloud. …”
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The potentials of rural tourism in developing rural areas in Albania by Henrietta Nagy, József Káposzta, Bledar Meta

“…It could provide good development opportunities in remote mountainous areas that every day more are abandoned by the population because they do not have enough employment opportunities. …”
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Precipitation Trends Analysis in Southwest Asia during the Last Half Century by sayyed mohammad hosseini

“…The most amount of precipitation is located in the northern parts of the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea, Southeast Asia, southern coast of the Caspian and Central Zagros Mountains. Most of Middle East (about %95) have not trend and only in some parts of Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan ,central Iran, and areas in lower-latitude have positive trend and some East and northwest parts of Iran and some parts of Middle East also have decreasing trend of precipitation. …”
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New Technology and Experimental Study on Snow-Melting Heated Pavement System in Tunnel Portal by Jinxing Lai, Junling Qiu, Jianxun Chen, Haobo Fan, Ke Wang

“…Therefore, such new technology, which offers new snow-melting methods for tunnel portal, bridge, mountainous area, and large longitudinal slope in cold region, has promising prospect for extensive application.…”
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Analysis of the Mesoscale Convective Systems Characteristics in West of Iran Case Study: April 23, 2004

“…Wile puberty stages (the maturity) and their expandings were increased with the height increase; in turn, declining of the systems began by passing Zagros chain mountains. The system extention area at the system life cycle starting increases with a smooth process; whereas the reduction process of the system extention area at the declining stage was severe and sudden.…”
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L’évaluation géoécologique de l’intérêt patrimonial des sols polygonaux hérités en montagne alpine. L’exemple du Col du Noyer (Massif du Dévoluy, Hautes Alpes, France)... by Pierre Pech, Mahé Ajinca, Sylvain Abdulhak, Eric Hustache, Laurent Simon, Brigitte Talon

“…At an altitude of 1664 m, the Col du Noyer in the French Dévoluy Mountains, which is accessible in summer by road, is one of the most popular Alpine passes. …”
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Under the bridge: marking sites prove the presence of Eurasian otter Lutra lutra in the Poljanska Sora River valley, Slovenia by Rudi Kraševec, Aleksander Trajbarič, Urša Fležar

“…To confirm the presence of the species in the Slovenian Pre-Alps, we searched for otter scat – spraint, on six tributaries to the Poljanska Sora River of Polhograjsko hribovje, the Pre-Alpine mountains around Polhov Gradec. Otter marking sites were exclusively in the riverbed (100 %), with a great majority found under the bridges (83 %). …”
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Divorce, remariage et condition juridique des femmes en Moldavie (xviie siècle-début du xixe siècle) by Elena Bedreag

“…The present research is focused on Moldavia (the former historic province, bordered by the Carpathian Mountains to the West and the Dniester river to the East) mainly on the 17th and 18th centuries, but it also goes up to the beginning of the 19th century, that is to say until the Organic Regulations. …”
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Analysis of the Pile-Soil Combined Effect of Micropiles in Strengthening Expansive Soil Landslide in Southern Shaanxi Based on the Dynamic Soil Arch Model by Xiao Ding, Hui He, Yonglong Qu, Yixuan Yang

“…Southern Shaanxi region is mountainous and landslide disasters are frequent. Micropile reinforcement technology is widely used in landslide management, especially in landslide emergency rescue projects, due to easy construction, small soil disturbance, and strong site adaptability. …”
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Mixing knowledge to negotiate with and on a volcano by Jean-Baptiste Bing

“…The Javanese world is organized in the form of hierarchical concentric circles, with one of its limits being in the mountains. This particular limit is the realm of the supra-human (gods, spirits) as much as the infra-human (animals and wild plants) and should be approached with caution, through continual negotiation with the forces that inhabit the area. …”
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Infrared Temperature Law and Deformation Monitoring of Layered Bedding Rock Slope under Static Load by Zhigang Tao, Kuiming Liu, Xuebin Cui, Xiaobing Qiao, Xiaoming Sun

“…China is a mountainous and hilly country with frequent large-scale landslides with complicated mechanisms and serious damage. …”
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Les espaces verts de la ville d’Assise by Giulia Giacchè

“…Three examples are used to figure out : the first, which involves the planning of natural and open spaces around the town, the second, which interest a project of green space inside the city and the third, which considered the management of olive tree in the Regional Park of Subasio Mountains. The richness of this case study is that it combines two viewpoints on the landscape. …”
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IDENTIFICATION DE RÉGIONS HOMOGÈNES DU POINT DE VUE HYDROLOGIQUE. ÉTUDE DE CAS: LA RÉGION DE LA COURBURE DE L’ARC CARPATIQUE by LILIANA ZAHARIA

“…The conclusions are the following ones: i) the ensemble of the study area is heterogeneous from the point of view of the conditions of formation of the maximum flows; ii) inside this area on we can separate two sub-regions – hilly and mountainous –which heterogeneity is much more reduced, the hilly region being able to even be considered as homogeneous.…”
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A Multiyear Record of Rainfall and Ionic Composition along an Elevation Gradient in Northeastern Puerto Rico by Elvis Torres-Delgado, Grizelle González, Ernesto Medina, María M. Rivera

“…Abstract This study analyzes multiyear data recorded by 21 stations along an elevation gradient (0–1045 m a.s.l.) in the Luquillo Mountains on the rainfall and the rainwater chemistry. …”
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Quality schemes and pastoralism in France by Claire Aubron, Marceline Peglion, Marie-Odile Nozières, Jean-Pierre Boutonnet

“…This is particular true for territories known for their harsh terrain. In mountainous Mediterranean hinterland regions, numerous quality schemes have been developed which rely in a more or less explicit manner on pastoralism. …”
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Increasing vulnerability of an endemic Mediterranean-climate conifer to changing climate and fire regime by Frank W. Davis, Anne-Marie Parkinson, Max A. Moritz, Max A. Moritz, Isaac W. Park, Carla M. D’Antonio

“…We used species distribution modeling and wildfire probability models to assess the potential vulnerability of Pseudotsuga macrocarpa (Bigcone Douglas fir, hereafter BDF), a restricted-range conifer of southern California mountains that is a species of concern because of its ecological importance and recent mortality due to drought and wildfire. …”
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Numerical Analysis of Seismic Site Effects in Loess Region of Western China under Strong Earthquake Excitations by Tuo Chen, Zhijian Wu, Yanhu Mu, Ping Wang, Qiyin Zhu

“…Observations from past strong earthquakes, particularly the Minxian–Zhangxian and Wenchuan earthquakes, have shown distinctive evidence of seismic site effects in the mountainous area of southeastern Gansu province. In this study, seismic damage in the loess areas of southeastern Gansu province induced by these earthquakes was investigated and briefly described. …”
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