Table of Contents

​The world’s mountains in the Anthropocene.- Climate change and response processes of mountain environments Introduction to Section I.- Markers of climate change: analyzing extreme temperature indices over the Himalayan mountains and adjoining Punjab plains.- Spatial variations and long-term trends of rainfall across Uttarakhand Himalaya, India.- Spatio-temporal heterogeneity in glaciers response across Western Himalaya.- Temporal variability of the Satopanth glacier facies at sub-pixel scale, Garhwal Himalaya, India.- Anticipated shifting of thermal and moisture boundary under changing climate across Nepal.- Quantifying uncertainties in climate change projection and its impact on water availability in the Thuli Bheri river basin, Nepal.- Glaciers, climate, and people: Holocene transitions in the Stubai Valley.- Environmental and socio-economic consequences of recent mountain glacier fluctuations in Norway.- Paraglacial time scale and sediment fluxes for hillslope land systems in the northern Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Canada.- Distance from retreating snowfields influences alpine plant functional traits at Glacier National Park, Montana.- Environmental drivers of species composition and tree species density of a near-natural Himalayan treeline ecotone. Implications for the response to climate change.- Modelling the ecological niche of a treeline tree species (Betula utilis) in the Himalayas - a methodological overview.- Conifer growth during warming hiatus in the Altay-Sayan Mountain Region, Siberia.- Climate-induced fir (Abies sibirica Ledeb.) mortality in the Siberian Mountains.- Climate change and dynamics of vegetation in the Lesser Caucasus: An overview.- Changing climate scenario in high altitude regions: Comparison of observed trends and perceptions of agro-pastoralists in Darma Valley, Uttarakhand, India.- Current crisis and future woes: The case of climate change in the Drakensberg Mountains region of southern Africa and its socio-economic impacts.- Section II: Response processes of mountain environments to land use change Introduction to Section II.- Assessment and prediction of land use/land cover changes of Beas Basin using a modelling approach.- Dynamics of land use/land cover changes in Mizoram, eastern extension of the Himalaya.