Tropical Glacier Ecosystem Rle

DISCLAIMER — Real Ecosystem-Collapse Science, Two Independent Regions, No Framework Bridge

Why no UTAC/CREP/AFET bridge: not only because the cited literature already provides the necessary quantitative structure -- a deliberate choice. This project's highly speculative AFET/UTAC experiments must never stand in the way of climate/ecology topics being accessible and usable to people who don't work inside that construct and aren't looking for renormalization groups. Real, checkable science, without the burden of an unproven framework. See PACKAGE_REGISTRY.md's "Why no UTAC/CREP/AFET bridge in the climate/ecology series" (2026-08-31) in the GenesisAeon workspace root for the full canonical note.

Status: Real, independently verified science, two geographically independent confirmations. NO UTAC/CREP/AFET bridge.

Where this package came from

Surfaced via a six-document multi-AI gap-analysis of the GenesisAeon climate/ecology portfolio (KlimaAktuell/, six independently-produced documents, 2026-09-01), cross-checked against PACKAGE_REGISTRY.md, then independently deep-dive re-verified (a second research pass specifically checking for overlooked complications/extensions -- this is where the East African confirmation was found and added) before building.

What this is

Every citation checked directly via WebSearch/WebFetch against publisher pages, 2026-09-01.

• Ferrer-Paris, J.R., Llambi, L.D., Melfo, A., Keith, D.A. (2024),
• Oryx, 58(6), 735-745, DOI: 10.1017/S0030605323001771 — real,
• peer-reviewed: the first-ever IUCN Red List of Ecosystems (RLE)
• assessment of a tropical glacier ecosystem (Cordillera de Merida,
• Sierra Nevada National Park, Venezuela). 90% ice-substrate decline
• 1998-2019 (5.173+/-0.130%/year), total di

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tropical-glacier-ecosystem-rle-utac

GenesisAeon Package 123 — real tropical glacier ecosystem collapse science, IUCN Red List of Ecosystems framing, Andes and East Africa. Deliberately has no UTAC/CREP/AFET bridge — see DISCLAIMER.md.

For a plain-language explanation of the same topic (German, no jargon, written for general audiences), see WHITEPAPER.md.

Where this package came from

Surfaced via a six-document multi-AI gap-analysis of the GenesisAeon climate/ecology portfolio (KlimaAktuell/, 2026-09-01), then independently deep-dive verified before building — alongside ocean-acidification-utac (P122), marine-compound-stressors-utac (P124), assisted-gene-flow-utac (P125), and climate-landuse-biodiversity-nexus-utac (P126). Extends the existing glacier-buffer series (glacier-buffer-utac P99 onward) into IUCN Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) collapse-diagnosis territory — a related but different question to that series' hydrological-buffer framing.

What's real here

• Ferrer-Paris, Llambi, Melfo & Keith (2024, Oryx)* — the
• first-ever IUCN Red List of Ecosystems assessment of a tropical
• glacier ecosystem (Cordillera de Merida, Venezuela): **90% ice
• decline** over 1998-2019, an annual rate of 5.173±0.130%/year,
• projected total disappearance within ~5 years of the assessment,
• and 79% of climate models predicting complete collapse by 2070.
• Status: Critically Endangered (CR) — evidence is consistent with the
• ecosystem already being Collapsed (CR-CO).
• **Hinzmann, Moelg, Braun, Cullen, Hardy, Kaser & Prinz (2024,
• Environmental Research: Climate)** — an independent geographic
• confirmation from East Africa: real 2021/2022 ice extents for
• Kilimanjaro (0.98 km², 8.6% of ~1900 extent), Mount Kenya (0.069
• km², 4.2%), and Rwenzori (0.38 km², 5.8%) — kept per-mountain, never
• collapsed into the combined 1.36 km² total.
• Project Pressure Rwenzori expedition (2025) — Mount Stanley's
• glacier surface lost 29.5% between 2020-2024; Mount Baker and Mount
• Speke's glaciers have already fully disappeared.

Deliberately not one-sided

is_ecosystem_collapse_status_the_same_question_as_water_security() returns False — the Rwenzori feeds the Nile's headwaters, relied on by ~5 million people downstream, a real and serious concern in its own right. But an ecological RLE collapse diagnosis and a hydrological water-security assessment are genuinely different questions, and this package keeps them explicitly separate rather than conflating one for the other.

Quickstart

bash pip install tropical-glacier-ecosystem-rle-utac

```python from tropical_glacier_ecosystem_rle_utac import ( ice_decline_pct_over_20_ye

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