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61 Citations
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Agritourism in Mountainous Regions—Insights from an International Perspective

  • Emilio Chiodo,
  • Andrea Fantini,
  • Lori Dickes,
  • Temitope Arogundade,
  • R. David Lamie,
  • Lucilene Assing,
  • Corinne Stewart and
  • Rita Salvatore

7 July 2019

Based on the research activity within the ISLE International Sustainability Network, this paper represents a step forward aiming to find some contacts points in the experiences some international cases (USA, Brazil, Italy and France) have grown in th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,005 Views
26 Pages

GIS-Based Approach for Modeling Vineyard and Apple Orchard Suitability in Mountainous Regions

  • Armand Casadó-Tortosa,
  • Felicidad de Herralde,
  • Robert Savé,
  • Miquel Peris,
  • Jaume Lordan,
  • Antoni Sánchez-Ortiz,
  • Elisenda Sánchez-Costa,
  • Adrià Barbeta and
  • Inmaculada Funes

27 October 2025

Climate change is expected to negatively impact agricultural production, leading to phenological and metabolic changes, increased water demands, diminished yields, and changed organoleptic characteristics, restricting the positive geographic producti...

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  • Open Access
940 Views
22 Pages

26 August 2025

Mountainous regions with complex terrain often generate mixed pixels, reducing the accuracy of land use classification. This study evaluates the applicability and performance of eight commonly used Land Use Products (LUPs) with resolutions from 10 m...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,659 Views
40 Pages

3 July 2025

The scenario adaptability of agricultural machinery chassis in hilly and mountainous regions has become a key area of innovation in modern agricultural equipment development in China. Due to the fragmented nature of farmland, steep terrain (often exc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,653 Views
17 Pages

Development and Test of a Self-Propelled Peanut Combine Harvester for Hilly and Mountainous Regions

  • Liang Pan,
  • Hongguang Yang,
  • Zhaoyang Yu,
  • Haiyang Shen,
  • Man Gu,
  • Weiwen Luo,
  • Feng Wu,
  • Fengwei Gu,
  • Guiying Ren and
  • Zhichao Hu

20 February 2025

Addressing the issue of complex terrain and small field plots in hilly and mountainous regions where large combine harvesters are not suitable, this paper presented the design and development of a semi-feed self-propelled peanut combine harvester. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,048 Views
21 Pages

30 March 2018

It is of great significance to explore landscape pattern changes around urban areas to maintain regional ecological security and encourage sustainable development. Few studies have focused on the small cities located in the mountain regions. In this...

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  • Open Access
2,046 Views
16 Pages

Nutritional Practices Among Ethnic Minority High School Students in Mountainous Regions, Vietnam

  • Nhung Thi Ninh,
  • Chinh Thi Kieu Pham,
  • Nga Thi Thanh Nguyen,
  • Tu Thi Thanh Pham,
  • Huong Thi Lan Dao,
  • Lien Phuong Vu,
  • Minh Thi Tran and
  • Quang Van Mai

Background: Vietnam is experiencing a significant “double burden” of malnutrition, characterized by the persistent challenge of undernutrition, particularly stunting in ethnic minority and mountainous regions, alongside a rising prevalenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,932 Views
20 Pages

8 November 2019

Spectral reflectance distortions caused by terrain and solar illumination seriously reduce the accuracy of mapping forest carbon density, especially in mountainous regions. Many models have been developed for mitigating or eliminating the terrain eff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
3,697 Views
18 Pages

The quantitative assessment of ecosystem health is important for interpreting the ecological effects of land use changes and formulating effective measures of sustainable ecological development by policymakers. This study investigated the response of...

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  • Open Access
1,074 Views
26 Pages

3 November 2025

The rational management of vacant rural housing is critical for optimization of Territorial Spatial Patterns. Although the issue of rural housing vacancy (RHV) has attracted widespread attention, systematic investigations in mountainous regions remai...

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  • Open Access
42 Citations
3,840 Views
19 Pages

26 June 2022

The mountainous vegetation is important to regional sustainable development. However, the topographic effect is the main obstacle to the monitoring of mountainous vegetation using remote sensing. Aiming to retrieve the reflectance of frequently-used...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,497 Views
14 Pages

30 July 2023

Applying rock-filled gabion to buildings in cold regions with mountainous climates has multiple potentials, such as utilizing rock resources, improving building sustainability and saving building energy. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the ther...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,871 Views
11 Pages

Cloud obscuration is a major problem for using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) images in different applications. This issue poses serious difficulties in monitoring the snow cover in mountainous regions due to high cloudiness in...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,768 Views
20 Pages

7 September 2023

In cold mountainous regions of China, the construction of highways is challenging, owing to frost damage of weak subgrade soils and the difficulties posed from dealing with waste materials derived from tunnel excavation. In order to address these iss...

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  • Open Access
1,385 Views
16 Pages

1 February 2025

Understanding post-fire vegetation recovery dynamics is crucial for damage assessment and recovery planning, yet spatiotemporal patterns in complex plateau environments remain poorly understood. This study addresses this gap by focusing on Yunnan Pro...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,490 Views
23 Pages

29 April 2024

SAR imagery plays a crucial role in geological and environmental monitoring, particularly in highland mountainous regions. However, inherent geometric distortions in SAR images often undermine the precision of remote sensing analyses. Accurately iden...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,290 Views
19 Pages

9 September 2022

Carrying out mountain-hazards developing environment research is helpful for understanding the spatial characteristics of the mountain hazards so as to contribute to mountain-hazards prevention and mitigation and the safety of infrastructures and maj...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,145 Views
18 Pages

30 November 2022

Mountainous ecosystems provide humans with multiple ecosystem services (ESs), but global changes and anthropogenic activities threaten the supply of such services in arid regions. To maintain regional ecological security and achieve ecosystem sustain...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
811 Views
14 Pages

Soil Structure Characteristics in Three Mountainous Regions in Bulgaria Under Different Land Uses

  • Milena Kercheva,
  • Tsvetina Paparkova,
  • Emil Dimitrov,
  • Katerina Doneva,
  • Kostadinka Nedyalkova,
  • Jonita Perfanova,
  • Rosica Sechkova,
  • Emiliya Velizarova and
  • Maria Glushkova

26 June 2025

Soil structure has an important role in storing and transporting substances, providing natural habitats for soil microorganisms, and allowing chemical reactions in the soil. A complex investigation on factors affecting soil structure characteristics...

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  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,860 Views
18 Pages

15 August 2019

After World War II, the economic recovery of Western Europe implied a swift economic transition for all regions, including the area of the Alps, although affecting various parts at different paces and stages. The resulting out-migration led to popula...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,806 Views
27 Pages

Flash Flood Regionalization for the Hengduan Mountains Region, China, Combining GNN and SHAP Methods

  • Yifan Li,
  • Chendi Zhang,
  • Peng Cui,
  • Marwan Hassan,
  • Zhongjie Duan,
  • Suman Bhattacharyya,
  • Shunyu Yao and
  • Yang Zhao

7 March 2025

The Hengduan Mountains region (HMR) is vulnerable to flash flood disasters, which account for the largest proportion of flood-related fatalities in China. Flash flood regionalization, which divides a region into homogeneous subdivisions based on flas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,446 Views
19 Pages

26 January 2023

Clarifying the interrelationship between climate and land use/land cover (LULC) changes on water yield in mountainous areas is very urgent due to the dramatic decrease in the water availability of mountainous areas. In this study, the InVEST model wa...

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  • Open Access
103 Citations
5,171 Views
21 Pages

17 April 2019

Snowmelt in the mid-latitude European mountains is undergoing significant spatiotemporal changes. Regional snow line elevation (RSLE) is an appropriate indicator for assessing snow cover variations in mountain areas. To derive regional snow line dyna...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,147 Views
17 Pages

An Assessment of Stratospheric Intrusions in Italian Mountain Regions Using STEFLUX

  • Paolo Cristofanelli,
  • Piero Di Carlo,
  • Eleonora Aruffo,
  • Francesco Apadula,
  • Mariantonia Bencardino,
  • Francesco D’Amore,
  • Paolo Bonasoni and
  • Davide Putero

22 October 2018

The Mediterranean basin is considered a global hot-spot region for climate change and air quality, especially concerning summer-time ozone (O3). Previous investigations indicated that the Mediterranean basin is a preferred region for stratosphere-to-...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,699 Views
18 Pages

13 May 2021

The ecosystem services (ESs) provided by mountain regions can bring about benefits to people living in and around the mountains. Ecosystems in mountain areas are fragile and sensitive to anthropogenic disturbance. Understanding the effect of land use...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,193 Views
20 Pages

17 October 2022

Regional cooperation has been increasingly recognized as indispensable in promoting coordinated regional development in China’s new urbanization. The “city-helps-city” cooperation arises as an important type of regional approach to...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,187 Views
25 Pages

26 June 2025

Against the historical background of the rural revitalization strategy and coordinated regional development, rural characteristic industries constitute the fundamental impetus and strategic avenue for rural spatial commodification processes in the mo...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,550 Views
12 Pages

23 November 2021

The western Tianshan Mountains region in China has a complex topography where basins, mountains and glaciers co-exist. It is of great significance to study the sensitivity of meteorological factors in this region to different parameterization schemes...

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  • Open Access
1,427 Views
24 Pages

The Future Climate Change Projections for the Hengduan Mountain Region Based on CMIP6 Models

  • Cuihua Bian,
  • Xinlan Liang,
  • Bingchang Li,
  • Zhiqiang Hu,
  • Xiaofan Min and
  • Zihao Yue

8 June 2025

Amid accelerating global climate change, research quantifying the uncertainty of mountain ecosystems in relation to CMIP6 multi-model ensemble (MME) simulations remains limited. This study addresses this gap by evaluating future temperature and preci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,588 Views
15 Pages

27 March 2018

The regulation and management of ecosystem services are fundamental for sustainable development in mountain areas. Although no obvious vertical band spectrum exists in Taihang Mountain region, vertical differentiation of ecological characteristics in...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,839 Views
21 Pages

Ecosystem services are closely related to human wellbeing—which refers to the basic material conditions required to maintain high standards of quality of life, of health, and of safety and security, as well as good social relationships, and fre...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,080 Views
20 Pages

5 September 2022

Extreme precipitation events can lead to severe mountain hazards, and they have therefore received widespread attention. The study of extreme precipitation can be hindered by the insufficient number and uneven distribution of rain gauge stations, esp...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,067 Views
16 Pages

28 June 2018

This research demonstrated a significant method for measuring tourist behavior in terms of social media use for rural mountain region tourism. This study proposed a quantitative method for establishing tourists’ main activities during the trave...

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  • Open Access
184 Views
28 Pages

Cryosphere Ecological Vulnerability in the Qilian Mountains Region: Trends, Drivers, and Adaptation

  • Xiaoya Yi,
  • Xingyu Xue,
  • Changsheng Lu,
  • Bowen Li,
  • Mengyuan Liu,
  • Jizu Chen,
  • Youyan Jiang and
  • Wentao Du

14 January 2026

The rapid shrinkage of the climate-regulating cryosphere, driven by global warming and anthropogenic activities, underscores the urgency of understanding its impact on regional ecological vulnerability. This study develops a Sensitivity–Resilie...

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  • Open Access
1,263 Views
31 Pages

Ecological Zoning in Mountainous Areas Based on Ecosystem Service Trade-Offs and Landscape Ecological Risk: A Case Study of the Hengduan Mountain Region

  • Xiaoyu Zhao,
  • Erfu Dai,
  • Kangning Kong,
  • Yuan Tian,
  • Yong Yang,
  • Zhuo Li,
  • Jiachen Liu,
  • Baolei Zhang and
  • Le Yin

24 August 2025

Ecological zoning is a key approach to promoting regional ecological protection and sustainable development. At present, landscape ecological risk (LER), driven by both natural and anthropogenic factors, continues to intensify, thereby disrupting eco...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,163 Views
17 Pages

7 July 2023

Mining-induced or enhanced geo-hazards (MGHs) pose significant risks in rural mountainous regions with underground mining operations by harming groundwater layers, water circulation systems, and mountain stability. MGHs occurring in naturally contami...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,395 Views
14 Pages

29 March 2024

The Qilian Mountains, located in northwest China and serving as a crucial water recharge area, have exhibited significant regional differences in precipitation patterns in recent decades. However, the limited temporal coverage of instrumental data ha...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,946 Views
28 Pages

Internet of Things Adoption in Technology Ecosystems Within the Central African Region: The Case of Silicon Mountain

  • Godlove Suila Kuaban,
  • Valery Nkemeni,
  • Onyeka J. Nwobodo,
  • Piotr Czekalski and
  • Fabien Mieyeville

16 October 2024

The Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a transformative technology with the potential to revolutionize various sectors and industries worldwide. Despite its global significance, the adoption and implementation of IoT technologies in emerging tec...

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  • Open Access
324 Views
20 Pages

Land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) is a crucial indicator of environmental transformation and has significant implications for biodiversity, ecosystem services, and climate change. This study investigates land-cover changes between 2017 and 2023...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,334 Views
18 Pages

16 November 2016

Recently, land use and land cover change have received increased attention, and an approach is required that can assess agricultural land use intensity on a general basis. This study demonstrated the usefulness of a tool for characterizing and assess...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,706 Views
27 Pages

A Regional Road Network Capacity Estimation Model for Mountainous Cities Based on Auxiliary Map

  • Ruru Xing,
  • Fei Wang,
  • Xiaoyu Cai,
  • Ning Chen,
  • Tao Yang and
  • Bo Peng

24 July 2023

The focus of sustainable urban transportation development lies in realizing the untapped capacity potential of the existing road network and enhancing its operational efficiency without expanding its physical footprint. To quantify the supply capacit...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,304 Views
13 Pages

15 May 2021

In the last few decades, land use/land cover (LULC) has changed significantly under the influence of local planning and policy implementation, and this has had a profound impact on the regional ecological environment. By taking the Hengduan Mountain...

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  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,844 Views
21 Pages

Can Livestock Farming and Tourism Coexist in Mountain Regions? A New Business Model for Sustainability

  • Dino Genovese,
  • Francesca Culasso,
  • Elisa Giacosa and
  • Luca Maria Battaglini

3 November 2017

European Mediterranean mountain regions have been characterized by a sort of competition between the tourism sector and the agro-silvo-pastoral system, which in recent years has contributed to generate a continuous decline of the second one. Neverthe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,137 Views
28 Pages

Timber Harvesting in Mountainous Regions: A Comprehensive Review

  • Lucian Dinca,
  • Cristinel Constandache,
  • Ruxandra Postolache,
  • Gabriel Murariu and
  • Eliza Tupu

11 March 2025

Mountain ecosystems play a crucial role in providing ecosystem services, with some of the most important being carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, land protection, and water source preservation. Additionally, timber harvesting in these r...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,154 Views
18 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneity of Climate Warming in the Chinese Tianshan Mountainous Region

  • Xuemei Li,
  • Bo Zhang,
  • Rui Ren,
  • Lanhai Li and
  • Slobodan P. Simonovic

11 January 2022

The Chinese Tianshan mountainous region (CTMR) is a typical alpine region with high topographic heterogeneity, characterized by a large altitude span, complex topography, and diverse landscapes. A significant increase in air temperature had occurred...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,565 Views
13 Pages

15 November 2022

Tipulidae, one of the most diverse families of Diptera, is widely distributed in the world. The adults have weak flight ability, making it an ideal model for studying the formation of insect diversity. This study aims to explore the species diversity...

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  • Open Access
2,829 Views
17 Pages

Potential and Challenges in Airborne Automated External Defibrillator Delivery by Drones in a Mountainous Region

  • Christian Wankmüller,
  • Ursula Rohrer,
  • Philip Fischer,
  • Patrick Nürnberger and
  • Ewald Kolesnik

26 September 2024

Delivering an automated external defibrillator (AED) to a patient suffering from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) as quickly as possible is a critical task. In this field, airborne drones may help to overcome long response times, especially in m...

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  • Open Access
85 Citations
11,331 Views
24 Pages

Exploiting Time Series of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Imagery to Detect Meadow Phenology in Mountain Regions

  • Laura Stendardi,
  • Stein Rune Karlsen,
  • Georg Niedrist,
  • Renato Gerdol,
  • Marc Zebisch,
  • Mattia Rossi and
  • Claudia Notarnicola

6 March 2019

A synergic integration of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical time series offers an unprecedented opportunity in vegetation phenology monitoring for mountain agriculture management. In this paper, we performed a correlation analysis of radar s...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,750 Views
24 Pages

27 January 2023

The study of land use/land cover (LULC) changes plays an important guiding role in regional ecological protection and sustainable development policy formulation. Especially, the simulation study of the future scenarios may provide a hypothetical pros...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,608 Views
14 Pages

Land use/land cover (LULC) and climate change are major driving forces that impact ecosystem services and affect human well-being directly and indirectly. Under the future interaction between LULC and climate change, the impact of different land mana...

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