Scientists' warning of threats to mountains

DS Schmeller, D Urbach, K Bates, J Catalan… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mountains are an essential component of the global life-support system. They are
characterized by a rugged, heterogenous landscape with rapidly changing environmental …

mountain lakes as freshwater resources at risk from chemical pollution

O Machate, DS Schmeller, T Schulze… - Environmental Sciences …, 2023 - Springer
Background Chemical pollution forms a severe threat for human and environmental health.
While the risks for European lowland water bodies are well known, there is little knowledge …

The legacy of metallurgical atmospheric contamination in a mountainous catchment: A delayed response of Pb contamination

F Guillevic, F Arnaud, M Rossi, J Poulenard… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Metal-rich fumes emitted during ore smelting contribute to widespread anthropogenic
contamination. Environmental archives (such as lake sediments) record fallouts deposited …

Modeling transport and fate of heavy metals at the watershed scale: State-of-the-art and future directions

L Zhou, F Wu, Y Meng, P Byrne, M Ghomshei… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
A predictive understanding of the source-specific (eg, point and diffuse sources) land-to-river
heavy metal (HM) loads and HM dynamics in rivers is essential for mitigating river pollution …

The canopy layer, a biogeochemical actor in the forest N-cycle

A Bortolazzi, L Da Ros, M Rodeghiero… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Atmospheric nitrogen (N) depositions have increased sharply since the industrial revolution.
Numerous authors forecasted severe impacts on forest ecosystem services and functioning …

The role of abiotic variables in an emerging global amphibian fungal disease in mountains

M Haver, G Le Roux, J Friesen, A Loyau… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The emergence of the chytridiomycete fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
(Bd), causing the disease chytridiomycosis, has caused collapse of amphibian communities …

Trace metal contamination in soils from mountain regions across China: spatial distribution, sources, and potential drivers

H Bing, S Qiu, X Tian, J Li, H Zhu, Y Wu, G Zhang - Soil Ecology Letters, 2021 - Springer
Trace metal contamination in soils is a threat with an uncertain limit to maintain planet safety,
and the issue of trace metal contamination in mountain soils is still of low concerned. In this …

Recent and historical pollution legacy in high altitude Lake Marboré (Central Pyrenees): A record of mining and smelting since pre-Roman times in the Iberian …

JP Corella, MJ Sierra, A Garralón, R Millán… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
We have analyzed potential harmful trace elements (PHTE; Pb, Hg, Zn, As and Cu) on
sediment cores retrieved from lake Marboré (LM)(2612 m asl, 42° 41′ N; 0° 2′ E). PHTE …

Exploring different methodological approaches to unlock paleobiodiversity in peat profiles using ancient DNA

I Fracasso, C Zaccone, N Oskolkov, L Da Ros… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Natural and human-induced environmental changes deeply affected terrestrial ecosystems
throughout the Holocene. Paleoenvironmental reconstructions provide information about the …

Biological weathering in the terrestrial system: an evolutionary perspective

DG Zaharescu, CI Burghelea… - Biogeochemical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Weathering is the process by which a solid breaks up into its building blocks when in
thermodynamic disequilibrium with the surrounding environment. Weathering plays an …