Keywords:
Environment
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Climate change
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Environmental geography
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Ecosystems
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Conservation biology
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Ecology
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Nature conservation
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Environment
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Nature Conservation
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Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
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Conservation Biology/Ecology
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Ecosystems
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Environmental Geography
Description / Table of 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
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIV, 413 pages)
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114 illustrations, 86 illustrations in color
ISBN:
9783319559827
URL:
https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-55982-7
Language:
English
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