Characterising the rural-urban gradient through the participatory mapping of ecosystem services: insights for landscape planning by Sara Palomo-Campesino, Ignacio Palomo, Javier Moreno, José González

“…In this study, we developed a process of participatory mapping of ES in a rural-urban gradient in southern Spain, which comprises the Sierra Nevada mountain range, the Granada valley and the city of Granada. …”
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Doubling diversity: a cautionary tale of previously unsuspected mammalian diversity on a tropical oceanic island by Lawrence Richard Heaney, Danilo S. Balete, Mariano Roy M. Duya, Melizar V. Duya, Sharon A. Jansa, Scott J. Steppan, Eric A. Rickart

“…The number of species on a mountain is strongly correlated with the elevation of the peak, and the number of endemic species on a mountain range is strongly correlated with the maximum elevation of the range. …”
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Using snow depth observations to provide insight into the quality of snowpack simulations for regional-scale avalanche forecasting by S. Horton, S. Horton, P. Haegeli

“…Snow depths in the Coast Mountain range were systematically overpredicted by the model, while snow depths in many parts of the interior Rocky Mountain range were underpredicted. …”
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A glacier inventory for the western Nyainqentanglha Range and the Nam Co Basin, Tibet, and glacier changes 1976–2009 by T. Bolch, T. Yao, S. Kang, M. F. Buchroithner, D. Scherer, F. Maussion, E. Huintjes, C. Schneider

“…A glacier inventory for the whole mountain range was generated for the year around 2001 using automated remote sensing and GIS techniques based on Landsat ETM+ and SRTM3 DEM data. …”
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Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae, Scinax cardosoi (Carvalho-e- Silva and Peixoto, 1991): distribution extension by Antônio Linares, Marcelo Henrique Batemarque, Humberto Mello, Luciana Nascimento

“…We report the geographical distribution extension of Scinax cardosoi to the central region of the State of Minas Gerais, at Espinhaço Mountain Range. During field work in November and December 2009 at the Municipality of Conceição do Mato Dentro, we collected some S. cardosoi specimens associated to temporary ponds, near to permanent streams in open and forested areas, in a transitional area of Atlantic Forest and Cerrado domains. …”
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Dos novedades de Marruecos: Linaria imzica Gómiz, sp. nov. (Scrophulariaceae): y Centaurea austromaroccana (Förther & Podlech): Gómiz, comb. & stat. nov. (Compositae) by Francisco Gómiz García

“…Linaria imzica of the western end of the mountain range of Antiatlas (S of Morocco) is described. …”
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Lentibulariaceae, Serra de São José, Minas Gerais, Brazil by Nílber Silva, Ruy José Alves, Jorge Pereira, Fernando Rivadavia

“…The Serra de São José is a mountain range within Cerrado (Brazilian savanna) biome, situated in the south of Minas Gerais state, Brazil. …”
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A dwarfish new species of Phylloicus (Trichoptera: Calamoceratidae) from Southeastern Brazil by Leandro L. Dumas, Jorge L. Nessimian

“…Phylloicus monneorum sp. nov. is described and illustrated based on specimens collected in the Mantiqueira mountain range, Itatiaia, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. …”
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Agriculture, grazing and land changes at the Serra de Tramuntana Karstic Mountains. by Ginés Angel

“…Good examples of polje-like depressions, dolines, karstic gorges and karrenfields are widely distributed over the mountain range. Owing to karrenfields occupying a large surface area in the Serra to the exclusion of arable land, the traditional activity based on the repetitive burning of the Ampelodesmos mauritanica brushwoods for cattle-raising promotes hastening deforestation and soil removal.…”
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First records of two rain frogs, genus Pristimantis (Anura, Craugastoridae), for Colombia by Fabio Meza-Joya

“…Although these species have been expected to occur in the Colombian side of this mountain range, no evidence of their presence was available to date. …”
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Désenchantement dans les Tatras. La vulnérabilité des « Alpes de poche » (Slovaquie) by Michel Lompech

“…Although tourism in this mountain range started in the mid-19th century, different stages over the course of the 20th century accelerated the transformation of the mountainous surroundings into an urban and recreational area. …”
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A new record for Brachycephalus nodoterga (Amphibia, Anura, Brachycephalidae) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil by Arthur Abegg, Flora Ortiz, Bruno Rocha, Thais Condez

“…Four specimens were collected north of Osasco, in the mountain range of the São Roque group, São Paulo, Brazil. …”
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Eumenes II and Apollonioucharax by Peter Thonemann

“…The inscription concerns a series of privileges granted by the Attalid monarch Eumenes II to the settlers at the military katoikia of Apollonioucharax, the site of which is thereby fixed at or near the modern village of Taşkuyucak, in the Keçi Dağı mountain range north of Lake Koloe/Gygaia (Marmara Gölü). …”
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New distribution records of the critically endangered frog Telmatobufo bullocki Schmidt, 1952 (Anura: Calyptocephalellidae) in southern Chile by Felipe Rabanal, Virginia Moreno-Puig

“…In an effort to assess the current geographic distribution of the critically endangered frog Telmatobufo bullocki Schmidt, 1952, we conducted several field surveys in the Nahuelbuta mountain range in central-south Chile. We surveyed historic localities cited in the literature, and potential new localities in private forestry areas. …”
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As guerrilhas miguelistas do Algarve no contexto da guerra civil de 1832-34 by António Monteiro Cardoso

“…A strong feeling of identity between the populations of the mountain range and a leadership capable of mobilizing them allowed the emergence of an important social movement, once the circumstances of civil war offered a favourable opportunity. …”
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The Roman Conquest of Asturias: A New approach by Narciso Santos Yanguas

“…Therefore we think the military actions could be developed in the Cantabrian mountain range (into the territory of the Asturian people) and in the littoral strip (the participation of the Roman fleet). …”
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The influence of sea areas upon mean air temperatures in Fennoscandia (1921-1950) by Kyösti Laaksonen

“…The pattern of the residuals obtained provides indications of the additional influence of factors such as sea water temperature, sea ice, warm and cold advection, cloud cover, snow cover and the major regional climatic factor, the Kölen mountain range, enabling these to be taken into account in the construction of the maritimity maps. …”
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Calceolaria flavida (Calceolariaceae) a new endemic species to central Chile by Nicolás Lavandero, Ludovica Santilli, Fernanda Pérez

“…The species is only known from the Natural Sanctuary Cerro El Roble, which is part of the coastal mountain range of central Chile and can be considered as Critically Endangered (CR) under the IUCN categories and criteria.…”
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STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS AND ACCEPTANCE ON MULLER ECOSYSTEM REGION MANAGEMENT AS A BIOSPHERE RESERVE IN GUNUNG MAS DISTRICT, CENTRAL KALIMANTAN PROVINCE by , AMALIA ANINDIA, , Much. Taufik Tri Hermawan, S.Hut, M.Si.

“…Muller Ecosystem Region (MER) is a landscape located in Muller mountain range that is registered in five districts â��including Gunung Mas Districtâ�� with various land tenures. …”

DEEP STRUCTURE OF THE SIBERIAN PLATFORM – CENTRAL ASIAN MOBILE BELT TRANSITION ZONE FROM TELESEISMIC DATA by V. V. Mordvinova, M. M. Kobelev, A. V. Treussov, M. A. Khritova, D. S. Trynkova, E. A. Kobeleva, O. F. Lukhneva

“…At depths from 150 to 250 km, it is in contact with the area under the Khamar-Daban mountain range. In the southeast, according to the SE velocity section PASSCAL_1992 across the South Baikal basin and the Khamar-Daban mountain range, the Siberian craton thickness is reduced from 270 to 150 km at the contact of the Siberian platform with the Baikal folded area. …”
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