Mountain Biodiversity (eBook, PDF)

A Global Assessment
Redaktion: Korner, Ch.; Spehn, E. M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 2002, Mountain Biodiversity deals with the biological richness, function and change of mountain environments. The book was birthed from the first global conference on mountain biodiversity and was a contribution to the International Year of Mountains in 2002. The book examines biological diversity as essential for the integrity of mountain ecosystems and argues that this dependency is likely to increase as environmental climates and social conditions change. This book seeks to examine the biological riches of all major mountain ranges, from around the world and using existing knowledge on mountain biodiversity, examines a broad range of research in diversity, including that of plants, animals, human and bacterial diversity. The book also examines climate change and mountain biodiversity as well as land use and conservation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000698299
• Artikelnr.: 58131487

Autorenporträt

Ch. Korner, E.M. Spehn

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Mountain Biodiversity, its Causes and
Function: An Overview Part II: How Much Mountain Biodiversity is there and
Why? 2. Intraspecific Genetic Diversity in Alpine Plants 3. Causes and
Consequence of Alpine Vascular Plant Diversity in the Rocky Mountains 4.
Biodiversity of the Vascular Timberline Flora in the Rocky Mountains of
Alberta, Canada 5. Plant Species Richness and Endemism of Upper Montane
Forests and Timberline Habitats in the Bolivian Andes 6. Biotope Patterns,
Phytodiversity and Forestline in the Andes, based on GIS and Remote Sensing
Data 7. Multi-Scale Patterns in Plant Species in Richness of European High
Mountain Vegetation 8. Environmental Determinants of Vascular Plant Species
Richness in the Swiss Alpine Zone 9. Plant Diversity and Endemism in High
Mountains of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Siberia 10. Cold Spots in the
Highest Mountains of the World - Diversity Patterns and Gradients in the
Flora of the Karakorum 11. Patterns of Plant Species Diversity in the
Northeastern Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai, China 12. Factors Influencing the
Spatial Restriction of Vascular Plant Species in the Alpine Archipelagos of
Australia 13. Biodiversity of the Subalpine Forest-Grassland Ecotone of the
Andringitra Massif, Madagascar 14. Diversity in Primary Succession: The
Chronosequence of a Glacier Foreland 15. Status and Trends in Diversity of
Alpine Vertebrates in the Northwestern United States 16. Biodiversity of
Human Populations in Mountain Environments Part III: Climate Changes and
Mountain Biodiversity 17. Potential Effects of Climate Change on Alpine and
Nival Plants in the Alps 18. Variations in Community Structure and Growth
Rates of High-Andean Plants with Climactic Fluctuations 19. A Scenario for
Mammal and Bird Diversity in the Snowy Mountains of Australia in Relation
to Climate Change 20. Modelling and Monitoring Ecosystem Responses to
Climate Change in Three North American Mountain Ranges 21. Scenarios of
Plant Diversity in South African Mountain Ranges in Relation to Climate
Change 22. Biodiversity in Mountain Medicinal Plants and Possible Impacts
of Climatic Change Part IV: Mountain Biodiversity, Land Use and
Conservation 23. Land Use and Biodiversity in Upland Pastures in Ethopia
24. Balancing Conservation of Biodiversity and Economic Profit in the High
Venezuelan Andes: Is Fallow Agriculture an Alternative? 25. Conserving
Mountain Biodiversity in Protected Areas 26. How Effective is Protected
Area Management in Mountains? 27. National Action Plans for Mountain
Biodiversity Conservation and Research Part V: Synthesis 28. A Global
Assessment of Mountain Biodiversity: Synthesis