''eco.mont – Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management'' is a

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Overview

The journal was established by the Alpine Network of Protected Areas, the International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the

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s are Axel Borsdorf and Günter Köck. The journal covers research on protected areas in the Alps and in other mountain regions. From 2015 the journal is published as open access and from 2017 it is listed in the

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the

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/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences,

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