Erratum to: Spatio-temporal changes in the six major glaciers of the Chitral River basin (Hindukush Region of Pakistan) between 2001 and 2018

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The article Spatio-temporal changes in the six major glaciers of the Chitral River basin (Hindukush Region of Pakistan) between 2001 and 2018, written by Jawaria GUL, Sher MUHAMMAD, LIU Shi-yin, Siddique ULLAH, Shakeel AHMAD, Huma HAYAT and Adnan Ahmad TAHIR, was originally published Online First without Open Access. After publication in volume 17, issue 3, page 572-587, the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an Open Access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to © The Author(s) 2020 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The original version of this article has been revised due to a retrospective Open Access order.

Land use and Cover Changes in the Northern Mountains of Pakistan; A Spatio-Temporal Change using MODIS (MCD12Q1) Time Series

“…Mountain possess complex ecosystems. The mountain environment in the Hindu Kush, Karakoram, and Himalayan (HKH) regions is being influenced by natural and human factors such as climate change, population growth, urbanization, economic development (Ahmad et al, 2017;Chettri et al, 2020;Wang et al, 2020) and natural disasters like flash floods, glacial lake floods, landslides, and mudslides, degrading mountainous environment (Ahmad et al, 2018;Gul et al, 2020;Mukherji et al, 2019).…”