Euro-Mediterranean torrents : case studies on tools that can improve their management / Dimitris Emmanouloudis [and others] -- Altered community dynamics in Rocky Mountain whitebark pine forests and the potential for accelerating declines / Shawn T. McKinney and Diana F. Tomback -- Mountains ecosystems as a temporal sink for persistent organic pollutants / Ricardo Barra and Roberto Quiroz -- Impact of land-use change on seasonal dynamics of total protein flow from roots of mountain meadow plant communities / Valerie Vranova [and others] -- Atmospheric carbon dioxide transport over mountainous terrain / Jielun Sun and Stephan F.J. De Wekker