Manfred Bardy-Durchhalter,¹ Oliver Bender,^2,3 Giulia Bertolotti,^2,4 Domenico Branca,^2,5 Valerie Braun,² Pascal Bohleber,^2,6 Daniela Festi,² Andrea Fischer,^2,* Andreas Gschwentner,^2,4 Lea Hartl,² Andreas Haller,² Kay Helfricht,² Clemens Hiller,^2,7 Kati Heinrich,² Andrina Janicke,² Margreth Keiler,^2,3 Günter Köck,² Armin Kratzer,² Andrea Lamprecht,^1,8 Harald Pauli,¹ Annemarie Polderman,² Jan Pfeiffer,² Fernando Ruiz Peyré,² Patrick Saccone,¹ Brigitte Scott,² Bernd Seiser,² Martin Stocker-Waldhuber,² Thomas Zieher<sup>2

1</sup>GLORIA, Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences & Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Silbergasse 30/3, 1190 Vienna, Austria
²Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innrain 25/3, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
³Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52f, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
⁴Institute of Geology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52f, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
⁵Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sassari, Via Roma, 151, 07100, Sassari, Italy
⁶Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Scientific Campus, via Torino 155, 30172 Mestre (VE), Italy
⁷Unit of Hydraulic Engineering, Department of Infrastructure, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 13, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
⁸Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Silbergasse 30/3, 1190 Vienna, Austria

^*Corresponding author: andrea.fischer@oeaw.ac.at