Volume 20, issue number 9 of the Journal of Mountain Science is now available online.

The Journal of Mountain Science, started in 2004, is an international English-language journal on mountain sciences. There are 20 articles in this issue:

1. Glacial reconstruction and periglacial dynamics at the end of Late Pleistocene on the surface of Cofre de Perote volcano, México: a climatological retrospective

2. Dominant species of mid-elevation grasslands of the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park are predicted to be largely immune to climate change

3. Influence of local and landscape environmental factors on alpha and beta diversity of macroinvertebrates in Andean rivers

4. Driving forces and their interactions of soil erosion in soil and water conservation regionalization at the county scale with a high cultivation rate

5. Elevation, bedrock exposure, land use, interbedded limestone and clastic rock, and vegetation coverage dominate the spatiotemporal variability of soil erosion in karst basin

6. A novel gully network extraction method combining hydrological confluence process and surface morphology

7. Impact of invasive Ageratina adenophora on relative performance of woody vegetation in different forest ecosystems of Kumaun Himalaya, India

8. Accumulation behavior of heavy metals by Bidens pilosa L. from metallurgical slag: effects on plant physiology and absorption characteristics

9. Influence of slope position and aspect on the vegetation attributes and tree-water relations in forests of the central Himalayas

10. Integrating predictive modeling techniques with geospatial data for landslide susceptibility assessment in northern Pakistan

11. Influence of rheological characteristics on the fluidization catastrophe of tailings flows

12. Assessment of earthquake-induced landslide hazard zoning using the physics-environmental coupled Model

13. A methodological framework of landslide quantitative risk assessment in areas with incomplete historical landslide information

14. Prediction of landslide block movement based on Kalman filtering data assimilation method

15. Spatial distribution and potential poverty-returning factors of former poverty-stricken villages in the Liangshan Mountains, China

16. Effects of anti-pull ties on the bearing behaviors of shallow tunnel-type anchorages in soft rock

17. Numerical simulation on the impact characteristics between rockfalls of different shapes and gravel cushions

18. Theoretical study on stability evolution of soft and hard interbedded bedding reservoir slopes

19. Soil-water characteristic surface model of soil-rock mixture

20. Fractional derivative statistical damage model of unsaturated expansive soil based on unified hydraulic effect.

     

Volume 20, issue 9 (September 2023) is now available online.

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Cover image by Aniket Deole.