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.
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
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