Human populations in the world's mountains: Spatio-temporal patterns and potential controls.

ABSTRACT: Changing climate and human demographics in the world's mountains will have increasingly profound environmental and societal consequences across all elevations. Quantifying current human populations in and near mountains is crucial to ensure that any interventions in these complex social-ecological systems are appropriately resourced, and that valuable ecosystems are effectively protected. However, comprehensive and reproducible analyses on this subject are lacking. Here, we develop and implement an open workflow to quantify the sensitivity of mountain population estimates over recent decades, both globally and for several sets of relevant reporting regions, to alternative input dataset combinations. Relationships between mean population density and several potential environmental covariate

SUBMITTER: Thornton JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9299344 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature