Definitions & tools

Mountain inventory v1: a standardized delineation of the world's mountains

 

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The GMBA mountain inventory is useful for various applications ranging from comparative research in mountain biodiversity to the spatial placement of biodiversity inventories and conservation planning. See below for a list of examples.

Methods

This inventory is based on the GMBA definitions of mountains and climatic belts. Details on the polygon delineation and additional information are available in Körner et al. 2017.

Versions

General information about the various files and formats, as well as log files of changes between subsequent versions are available in the online repository.

  • V1.0 includes 1003 mountain ranges with their name, coordinates, surface of mountain terrain stratified by dominant life zones, and human population estimates
  • V1.1 is identical to V1.0 but a number of polygon names in English have been corrected for typos and mistakes
  • V1.2 (latest) includes approximately 50 more polygons, primarily in Asia and South America

Applications

Citations

Citations 2017

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Citations 2018

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  • Wen et al. (2018). Abundance–occupancy and abundance–body mass relationships of small mammals in a mountainous landscape. Landscape Ecology 33(10): 1711-1724 (DOI: 10.1007/s10980-018-0695-z)
  • Antonelli et al. (2018). Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity. Nature Geoscience 11(10): 718-725 (DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0236-z)
  • Rocchia et al. (2018). Can the effect of species ecological traits on birds’ altitudinal changes differ between geographic areas? Acta Oecologica 92: 26-34 (DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2018.08.001)
  • Sayre et al. (2018). A new high-resolution map of world mountains and an online tool for visualizing and comparing characterizations of global mountain distributions. Mountain Research and Development 38(3): 240-249 (DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-17-00107.1)
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  • Zhu et al. (2018). Effects of altitude on county economic development in China. Journal of Mountain Science 15(2): 406-418 (DOI: 10.1007/s11629-017-4393-0)
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Citations 2019

  • Onditi et al. (2019). Morphological and genetic characterization of Mount Kenya brush-furred rats (Lophuromys Peters 1874); relevance to taxonomy and ecology. Mammal Research (DOI:10.1007/s13364-019-00470-1)
  • Torres et al. (2019). Mountain summit detection with Deep Learning: evaluation and comparison with heuristic methods. Applied Geomatics (DOI: 10.1007/s12518-019-00295-2)
  • Wrzesien et al. (2019). Characterizing biases in mountain snow accumulation from global data sets. Water Resources Research 55(11): 9873-9891 (DOI: 10.1029/2019WR025350)
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  • Onditi et al. (2019). Morphological and genetic characterization of Mount Kenya brush-furred rats (Lophuromys Peters 1874); relevance to taxonomy and ecology. Mammal Research (DOI: 10.1007/s13364-019-00470-1)
  • Colón López and Restrepo (2019). Water quality and socio-economic indicators are linked in a tropical watershed: emerging implications for the sustainable management of waterscapes. Wetlands (DOI: 10.1007/s13157-019-01232-0)
  • Onipchenko et al. (2019). Low floristic richness of afro-alpine vegetation of Mount Kenya is related to its small area. Alpine Botany (DOI: 10.1007/s00035-019-00229-z)
  • Lievens et al. (2019). Snow depth variability in the Northern Hemisphere mountains observed from space. Nature Communications:10(4629) (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12566-y)
  • Chakraborty (2019). Mountains as vulnerable places: a global synthesis of changing mountain systems in the Anthropocene. GeoJournal:e02862 (DOI: 10.1007/s10708-019-10079-1)
  • Ge et al. (2019). Climatic seasonality is linked to the occurrence of the mixed evergreen and deciduous broad-leaved forests in China. Ecosphere (9):e02862 (DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2862)
  • Rahbek et al. (2019). Humboldt’s enigma: What causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity? Science 365(6458)": 1108-1113 (DOI: 10.1126/science.aax0149)
  • Encalada et al. (2019). A global perspective on tropical montane rivers. Science 365(6458)": 1124-1129 (DOI: 10.1126/science.aax1682)
  • Porro et al. (2019). Could plant diversity metrics explain climate-driven vegetation changes on mountain summits of the GLORIA network? Biodiversity and Conservation. (DOI: 10.1007/s10531-019-01837-1)
  • Sati (2019). Himalaya on the Threshold of Change. Advances in Global Change Research 66 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14180-6)
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  • Bärtschi et al. (2019). Elevational richness patterns of shpingid moths support area effects over climatic drivers in a near-global analysis. Global Ecology and Biogeography (DOI: 10.1111/geb.12903)
  • Klein et al. (2019). An integrated community and ecosystem-based approach to disaster risk reduction in mountain systems. Environmental Science and Policy 94:143-152. (DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.12.034)
  • Klein et al. (2019). Catalyzing transformations to sustainability in the world's mountains. Earths' Future (DOI: 10.1029/2018EF001024)
  • Kafash, et al. (2019). Environmental predictors for the distribution of the Caspian green lizard, Lacerta strigata eichwald, 1831, along elevational gradients of the Elburz mountains in northern Iran. Turkish Journal of Zoology 43(10):106-113. (DOI: 10.3906/zoo-1808-15)
  • Vieira et al. (2019). Ecological aspects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in different habitat types of a Brazilian mountainous area. Ecological Research 34(1): 182-192 (DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.1061)
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Citations 2020

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  • Elsen et al. (2020). Topography and human pressure in mountain ranges alter expected species responses to climate change. Nature communications 11: 1984 (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15881-x)
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  • Notarnicola (2020). Hotspots of snow cover changes in global mountain regions over 2000–2018. Remote Sensing of Environment 243(111781): 364-369 (DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111781)
  • Notarnicola (2020). Observing snow cover and water resource changes in the high mountain Asia region in comparison with global mountain trends over 2000–2018. Remote Sensing 12(23): 3913 (DOI: 10.3390/rs12233913)
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  • Schoville and Rovito (2020). Biogeography of North American Highlands. Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes 530-542 (DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.11781-6)
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Citations 2021

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Citations 2022

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