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Regional Dialogue 1: What should we know about glacier melting and high mountain dynamics?
Join this online event, in Spanish, to hear what we should know about glacier melting and high mountain dynamics!
Third IAM Science-Policy Meeting: Promoting the Integration of Biodiversity and Climate Change in Mountains
Read the summary of the third IAM Science-Policy Meeting: Integrating Biodiversity and Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Adaptation and International Cooperation.
Launch of the Caucasus Environment Outlook 2.0
What are the policy needs and gaps of the six countries within the Caucasus Ecoregion, and how can they mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change on both society and the environment? Join this webinar for the launch of the second edition of the Caucasus Environment Outlook.
COP16 Global Mountain Governance: importance for building synergies between Biodiversity conservation and Climate Change adaptation
Date and Location 🕗Wednesday, October 23 📅 18:00 a 19:20 (Bogotá, Lima, Quito)🟢 JUSCANZ Hall, Blue Zone COP-16 - Side Event #5908...
International Conference ‘Mountains: Biodiversity, landscapes and cultures
Take part in this international conference to engage with experts, share insights, and contribute to a sustainable future for mountain regions worldwide. The conference will cover global mountain biodiversity, ecological problems, mountain cultures, and mountain tourism & economic impacts.
Strengthening socio-environmental monitoring in the Andes
Explore recommendations and proposals on socio-environmental monitoring in the Andes made by the research community in this policy brief.
Diversity, structure and dynamics of tropical montane forests: Insights from permanent-plot monitoring in the Venezuelan Andes
Explore monitoring data from two mountain ranges of the Venezuelan Andes and understand what the results mean for their future sustainable management and conservation in this journal article.
Pastoralism in the high tropical Andes: A review of the effect of grazing intensity on plant diversity and ecosystem services
What are the impacts of grazing on biodiversity and ecosystem services in the tropical Andes? Explore the findings of this systematic review.
A roadmap for integrating theory and field observations in South America montane 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.
Pioneering study analyzes how plant communities throughout the High Andes are responding to climate change
Explore a new study by the GLORIA-Andes monitoring network to learn about how climate change is transforming summit plant communities in the High Andes, and what the key drivers of these changes are.