High mountain conservation in a changing world. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jordi Catalan, Josep M. Ninot, M. Mercè Aniz, editors.
• Editors: Catalán, Jordi (Jordi F. Catalán Aguilà); Ninot i Sugrañes, Josep Maria; Aniz, Mercè
• Contents: Introduction -- 1. Trade-offs in the high-mountain conservation -- 2. Present phylogeorgraphic patterns in European mountains resulting from past large climatic oscillations -- 3. The early human occupation of the high mountain -- 4. Millenial socio-ecological trajectories in high mountain and land use -- 5. Non-equilibrium in alpine plan assemblages, current shifts in summit floras -- 6. Diversity assembly in alpine plant communities -- 7. Regional forest idiosyncrasy and the response to global change -- 8. Life-history responses to the altitudinal gradient in mountain fauna -- 9. Towards a microbial conservation perspective in high-mountain lakes -- 10. On defence of fishless high mountain lakes -- 11. Atmospheric chemical loadings in the high mountain: current forcing and legacy pollution -- 12. High soil carbon stocks in mountain grasslands may be compromised by land use changes -- 13. Why recovering large carnivore populations in high mountains? -- 14. The role of environmental history in high mountain landscape conservation -- 15. Conservation lessons from long-term studies of the bearded vulture -- 16. Monitoring global change in the high mountain -- 17. Evaluating global change effects on high mountain snow and the impact on water resources -- 18. A modelling approach to the understanding of past, present and future shifts in vegetation -- 19. Challenges for conservation in a changing world, perspective from the high mountains.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 413 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 577.5/3; Mountain biodiversity conservation; Mountain ecology; Mountain biodiversity conservation; Mountain ecology; Environment; Nature Conservation; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Conservation Biology/Ecology; Ecosystems; Environmental Geography; Environmental economics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319559827; 3319559826
• Related ISBNs: 9783319559810; 3319559818
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 11, 2017).
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