Annals of Glaciology 59(77) 2018 doi: 10.1017/aog.2018.26 111 © The Author(s) 2018. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Avalanche activity and socio-environmental changes leave strong footprints in forested landscapes: a case study in the Vosges medium-high mountain range Florie GIACONA,1,2 Nicolas ECKERT,2 Robin MAINIERI,3 Brice MARTIN,4 Christophe CORONA,5 Jérôme LOPEZ-SAEZ,1 Jean-Matthieu MONNET,3 Mohamed NAAIM,2 Markus STOFFEL1,6,7 1Institut des Sciences de l’Environnement – Université de Genève, 66 bd Carl Vogt, CH-1205 Genève, Suisse. E-mail:
[email protected] 2University Grenoble Alpes, Irstea, UR ETGR, 2 rue de la Papeterie-BP 76, F-38402 St-Martin-d’Hères, France 3University Grenoble Alpes, Irstea, UR LESSEM, 2 rue de la Papeterie-BP 76, F-38402 St-Martin-d’Hères, France 4Université de Haute-Alsace, Centre de recherche sur les Économies, les Sociétés, les Arts et les Techniques, 68093 Mulhouse Cedex, France 5GEOLAB, UMR6042 CNRS/Université Blaise Pascal, Maison des sciences de l’homme, 63057 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex 2, France 6dendrolab.ch, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, 13 rue des Maraîchers, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland 7Department F.A. Forel for Aquatic and Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, 66 Boulevard Carl-Vogt, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland ABSTRACT. The medium-high mountain ranges of Western Europe are undergoing rapid socio-environ- mental changes.