Journal of Mountain Science http://jms.imde.ac.cn General Table of Contents (Vol. 17, 2020) 1-15 Callie B. LAMBERT, Lynn M. RESLER, Yang SHAO, David R. BUTLER Vegetation change as related to terrain factors at two glacier forefronts, Glacier National Park, Montana, U.S.A. 16-30 Elena BABUSHKINA, Dina ZHIRNOVA, Liliana BELOKOPYTOVA, Eugene VAGANOV Warming induced changes in wood matter accumulation in tracheid walls of spruce 31-41 Magdalena KACPRZYK, Ewa BŁOŃSKA, Jarosław LASOTA Effect of spot burning of logging residues on the properties of mountain forest soils and the occurrence of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) 42-49 Ahmad KHAN, Ahmad SAID, Imran ULLAH Landsat based distribution mapping of high-altitude peatlands in Hindu Kush Himalayas – a case study of Broghil Valley, Pakistan 50-67 EWANE Basil Ewane, Heon Ho LEE Assessing land use/land cover change impacts on the hydrology of Nyong River Basin, Cameroon 68-82 Peyman KARAMI, Sahar REZAEI, Shabnam SHADLOO, Morteza NADERI An evaluation of central Iran's protected areas under different climate change scenarios (A Case on Markazi and Hamedan provinces) 83-94 XU Bo, WANG Jin-niu, SHI Fu-sun Impacts of ontogenetic and altitudinal changes on morphological traits and biomass allocation patterns of Fritillaria unibracteata 95-116 Sareth NHEM, Young-jin LEE Exploring perspectives in assessing the quality of governance of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) pilot project in Cambodia: Use of Q Methodology 117-132 Sugandha PANWAR Vulnerability of Himalayan springs to climate change and anthropogenic impact: a review 133-146 CHEN Nan Deriving the slope-mean shielded astronomical solar radiation spectrum and slope-mean possible sunshine duration spectrum over the Loess Plateau 147-155 CHEN Yong, ZHOU Li-hua Quantification of restricting factors of agricultural development in Min County of Gansu, China 156-172 LIU Mei, ZHANG Yong, TIAN Shu-feng, CHEN Ning-sheng, MAHFUZR Rahman, JAVED Iqbal Effects of loose deposits on debris flow processes in the Aizi Valley, southwest China 173-190 WANG Tao, LIU Jia-mei, SHI Ju-song, GAO Meng-tan, WU Shu-ren Probabilistic seismic landslide hazard assessment: a case study in Tianshui, Northwest China 191-202 HE Chun-can, HU Xin-li, XU Chu, WU Shuang-shuang, ZHANG Han, LIU Chang Model test of the influence of cyclic water level fluctuations on a landslide 3184 203-215 ZHANG Yu-xin, WANG Yu-kuan, FU Bin, LI Ming, LU Ya-feng, DIXIT Amod Mani, CHAUDHARY Suresh, WANG Shan Changes in cultivated land patterns and driving forces in the Three Gorges Reservoir area, China, from 1992 to 2015 216-229 HUANG Bo-lin, WANG Jian, ZHANG Quan, LUO Chao-lin, CHEN Xiao-ting Energy conversion and deposition behaviour in gravitational collapse of granular columns 230-243 QU Li-ming, DING Xuan-ming, WU Chong-rong, LONG Yong-hong, YANG Jin-chuan Effects of topography on dynamic responses of single piles under vertical cyclic loading 244-260 XU Jing-song, XU Hua, SUN Run-fang, ZHAO Xiang-wei, CHENG Yin Seismic risk evaluation for a planning mountain tunnel using improved analytical hierarchy process based on extension theory 261-270 KROH Paweł Identification of landing sites for rescue helicopters in mountains with use of Geographic Information Systems 271-288 TELBISZ Tamás, BRANKOV Jovana, ĆALIĆ Jelena Topographic and lithologic controls behind mountain depopulation in Zlatibor District (Western Serbia) 289-303 CHENG Lin-lin, LIU Mei, ZHAN Jia-qi Land use scenario simulation of mountainous districts based on Dinamica EGO model 304-315 GUO Yuan-zhi, ZHOU Yang, LIU Yan-sui The inequality of educational resources and its countermeasures for rural revitalization in southwest China 316-328 BAI Yong-jian, WANG Yun-sheng, GE Hua, TIE Yong-bo Slope structures and formation of rock–soil aggregate landslides in deeply incised valleys 329-339 CHEN Ning-sheng, ZHANG Yong, TIAN Shu-feng, DENG Ming-feng, WANG Tao, LIU Li-hong, LIU Mei, HU Gui-sheng Effectiveness analysis of the prediction of regional debris flow susceptibility in post-earthquake and drought site 340-357 ZHANG Yi-xing, LAN Heng-xing, LI Lang-ping, WU Yu-ming, CHEN Jun-hui, TIAN Nai-man Optimizing the frequency ratio method for landslide susceptibility assessment: A case study of the Caiyuan Basin in the southeast mountainous area of China 358-372 LI Ning, TANG Chuan, YANG Tao, CHEN Ming Analysing post-earthquake landslide susceptibility using multi-temporal landslide inventories — a case study in Miansi Town of China 373-383 Alejandro LOYDI, Flavia A. FUNK, Andrés GARCÍA Vegetation recovery after fire in mountain grasslands of Argentina 384-396 SUN Ju-ying, SUN Xiang-yang, HU Zhao-yong, WANG Gen-xu Exploring the influence of environmental factors in partitioning evapotranspiration along an elevation gradient on Mount Gongga, eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Platea, China 397-409 Gheyur GHEYRET, Anwar MOHAMMAT, TANG Zhi-yao Elevational patterns of temperature and humidity in the middle Tianshan Mountain area in Central Asia 410-422 LI Fa-Yong, YUAN Cheng-yu, YUAN Zi-Qiang, YOU Yong-jun, HU Xue-fei, WANG Shan, LI Guo-yu Bioavailable phosphorus distribution in alpine meadow soil is affected by topography in the Tian Shan Mountains 423-434 ZHANG Xiao-yun, WU Kai-xian, FULLEN Michael A., WU Bo-zhi Synergistic effects of vegetation layers of maize and potato intercropping on soil erosion on sloping land in Yunnan Province, China 435-447 DING Xin-hui, LIU Xiao-ying, LIU Guang-quan, NING Dui-hu, XIE Yong-sheng, HAO Xiao-dong, ZHOU Wei 3185 Evaluation of soil erosion from chestnut forests: A case study in the Yanshan Mountains, China 448-463 XIANG Juan, ZHOU Jun-ju, YANG Jun-cang, HUANG Mei-hua, FENG Wei, LI Qiao-qiao, XUE Dong-xiang, ZHAO Ya-ru, ZHU Guo-feng Applying multivariate statistics for identification of groundwater chemistry and qualities in the Sugan Lake Basin, Northern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China 464-479 CAI Shun, GENG Hao-peng, PAN Bao-tian, HONG Yang, CHEN Li-ping Topographic controls on the annual runoff coefficient and implications for landscape evolution across semiarid Qilian Mountains, NE Tibetan Plateau 480-491 Kiyoumars ROUSHANGAR, Saman SHAHNAZI Determination of influential parameters for prediction of total sediment loads in mountain rivers using kernel-based approaches 492-500 Recep KILIÇ, Koray ULAMIŞ Toppling and sliding in volcanic bimrocks around Bayrakli (Izmir, Turkey) 501-515 Răzvan VOICU, Artur RADECKI-PAWLIK, Tomasz TYMIŃSKI, Marian MOKWA, Robbin SOTIR, Liliana VOICU A potential engineering solution to facilitate upstream movement of fish in mountain rivers with weirs: Southern Carpathians, the Azuga River 516-527 WANG Ming-feng, TIAN Feng-xia, HE Xiu-bin, Raheel ANJUM, BAO Yu-hai, Adrian L. COLLINS Dry cropland changes in China's Three Gorges Reservoir Region during the period 1990 to 2015 528-541 Abdolreza PARTABIAN, Sasan BAGHERI, Fariba MORSHEDI, Timothy M. KUSKY Documentation of the Sirjan Orocline in the southeast Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone, Iran 542-555 BHATTARAI Prakash, BHATTA Kuber Prasad, ZHANG Yang-jian, VETAAS Ole Reidar Microtopography driven plant species composition in alpine region: a fine-scale study from Southern Norway 556-571 Naveed AHMED, WANG Gen-xu, Adeyeri OLUWAFEMI, Sarfraz MUNIR, HU Zhao-yong, Aamir SHAKOOR, Muhammad Ali IMRAN Temperature trends and elevation dependent warming during 1965 – 2014 in headwaters of Yangtze River, Qinghai Tibetan Plateau 572-587 Jawaria GUL, Sher MUHAMMAD, LIU Shi-yin, Siddique ULLAH, Shakeel AHMAD, Huma HAYAT, Adnan Ahmad TAHIR Spatio-temporal changes in the six major glaciers of the Chitral River basin (Hindukush Region of Pakistan) between 2001 and 2018 588-601 Raafat H. ABD El-WAHAB, Mohammed A. BIHZAD, Alham J. AL-LANGAWI Effects of geomorphology and soil conditions on vegetation structure in conserved desert wadis: A case study of Jal Al-Zor escarpment, Kuwait 602-613 SHARMA Prasad Krishna, TIWARI Achyut, SHRESTHA Babu Bharat Changes in regeneration and leaf traits of Rhododendron campanulatum along a treeline ecotone in central Nepal 614-623 HAO Chun-ming, HUANG Yue, MA Deng-jun, FAN Xing Hydro-geochemistry evolution in Ordovician limestone water induced by mountainous coal mining: A case study from North China 624-640 Muhammad BABUR, Sangam SHRESTHA, Binod BHATTA, Avishek DATTA, Hayat ULLAH Integrated assessment of extreme climate and landuse change impact on sediment yield in a mountainous transboundary watershed of India and Pakistan 641-652 HAN Zhen, CHEN Xiao-yan, HUANG Yu-han, LUO Bang-lin, XING Hang, HUANG Yong-chao 3186 Effect of slope gradient on the subsurface water flow velocity of sand layer profile 653-669 MINEO Simone Comparing rockfall hazard and risk assessment procedures along roads for different planning purposes 670-685 CHEN Tao, ZHU Li, NIU Rui-qing, TRINDER C John, PENG Ling, LEI Tao Mapping landslide susceptibility at the Three Gorges Reservoir, China, using gradient boosting decision tree, random forest and information value models 686-708 ZHANG Ze-lin, WANG Tao, WU Shu-ren Distribution and features of landslides in the Tianshui Basin, Northwest China 709-723 SVAJDA Juraj, MALAC Lukas, KHARTISVILI Lela Balancing development and conservation needs of stakeholders in the Tusheti Protected Landscape 724-739 Neetu KAPOOR, Minakshi JAIN, Vijay Kumar BANSAL A methodological approach for weighting factors in land suitability assessment: a tool for facilitating spatial planning 740-752 Luca MATASSONI, Andrea FIASCHI Assessment of seismic ground motion amplification and liquefaction