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Global change and mountain regions

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: The International Year of Mountains Challenge and Opportunity for Mountain Research
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    Chapter 2 A Dynamical Perspective on High Altitude Paleoclimate Proxy Timeseries
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    Chapter 3 Understanding the Spatial Heterogeneity of Global Environmental Change in Mountain Regions
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    Chapter 4 Ice Cores from Tropical Mountain Glaciers as Archives of Climate Change
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    Chapter 5 The Contribution of Cosmogenic Nuclides to Unraveling Alpine Paleoclimate Histories
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    Chapter 6 Holocene Glacier Fluctuations and Winter Precipitation Variations in Southern Norway
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    Chapter 7 Glacier and Climate Variability in the Mountains of the Former Soviet Union during the last 1000 Years
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    Chapter 8 Glacier-Climate Models as Palaeoclimatic Information Sources: Examples from the Alpine Younger Dryas Period
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    Chapter 9 Holocene Environmental Change in the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau Region: Lake Sediments and the Future
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    Chapter 10 Water Resources in the Arid Mountains of the Atacama Desert (Northern Chile): Past Climate Changes and Modern Conflicts
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    Chapter 11 Palaeolimnological Investigations in the Alps: The Long-Term Development of Mountain Lakes
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    Chapter 12 High Mountain Lakes and Atmospherically Transported Pollutants
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    Chapter 13 Trace Metals, Fly-ash Particles and Persistent Organic Pollutants in European Remote Mountain Lakes
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    Chapter 14 Long-term Responses of Mountain Ecosystems to Environmental Changes: Resilience, Adjustment, and Vulnerability
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    Chapter 15 Climate Fluctuations Derived from Tree-rings and Other Proxy-records in the Chilean Andes: State of the Art and Future Prospects
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    Chapter 16 Biogeographical Consequences of Recent Climate Changes in the Southern Andes of Argentina
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    Chapter 17 Mountain Glaciers in Global Climate-related Observing Systems
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    Chapter 18 Mountain Glaciers are at Risk of Extinction
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    Chapter 19 Low Latitude Glaciers: Unique Global Climate Indicators and Essential Contributors to Regional Fresh Water Supply. A Conceptual Approach
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    Chapter 20 Glaciers of the Tropical Andes: Indicators of Global Climate Variability
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    Chapter 21 Glacier Recession in the Peruvian Andes: Climatic Forcing, Hydrologic Impact and Comparative Rates Over Time
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    Chapter 22 Climate Change, Mountain Permafrost Degradation and Geotechnical Hazard
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    Chapter 23 Glacier and Permafrost Hazards in High Mountains
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    Chapter 24 Impact of Climatic Changes on Snow Cover and Snow Hydrology in the French Alps
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    Chapter 25 Modelling the Response of Mountain Glacier Discharge to Climate Warming
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    Chapter 26 Orographic Precipitation and Climate Change
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    Chapter 27 Monitoring Climate Variability and Change in the Western United States
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    Chapter 28 Spatial Heterogeneity of Snow Conditions and Evapotranspiration in the Swiss Alps
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    Chapter 29 Runoff Processes in Mountain Headwater Catchments: Recent Understanding and Research Challenges
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    Chapter 30 Runoff Generation Processes on Hillslopes and Their Susceptibility to Global Change
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    Chapter 31 Identifying Space-time Patterns of Runoff Generation: A Case Study from the Löhnersbach Catchment, Austrian Alps
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    Chapter 32 Soil Erosion and Runoff Generation Related to Land Use Changes in the Pyrenees
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    Chapter 33 The Role of Riparian Zones in Steep Mountain Watersheds
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    Chapter 34 The Use of Hydrological Models for the Simulation of Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Hydrology
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    Chapter 35 Effects of Climate Variability and Change on Mountain Water Resources in the Western U.S.
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    Chapter 36 The Green Cover of Mountains in a Changing Environment
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    Chapter 37 The Response of Alpine Plants to Environmental Change: Feedbacks to Ecosystem Function
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    Chapter 38 Ecological Climate Impact Research in High Mountain Environments: GLORIA (Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments) — its Roots, Purpose and Long-term Perspectives
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    Chapter 39 A Global Assessment of Mountain Biodiversity and its Function
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    Chapter 40 Potential Impacts of Global Change on Vegetation in Australian Alpine Landscapes: Climate Change, Landuse, Vegetation Dynamics and Biodiversity Conservation
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    Chapter 41 Ecological Effects of Land-use Changes in the European Alps
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    Chapter 42 Climate Interactions in Montane Meadow Ecosystems
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    Chapter 43 High Elevation Ecosystem Responses to Atmospheric Deposition of Nitrogen in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA
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    Chapter 44 Mountain Lakes as Indicators of the Cumulative Impacts of Ultraviolet Radiation and other Environmental Stressors
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    Chapter 45 The Role of Mid-latitude Mountains in the Carbon Cycle: Global Perspective and a Western US Case Study
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    Chapter 46 Remote Sensing Detection of High Elevation Vegetation Change
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    Chapter 47 Monitoring Networks for Testing Model-Based Scenarios of Climate Change Impact on Mountain Plant Distribution
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    Chapter 48 Projecting the Impacts of Climate Change on Mountain Forests and Landscapes
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    Chapter 49 Assessing Climate Change Effects on Mountain Ecosystems Using Integrated Models: A Case Study
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    Chapter 50 Detecting Global Change at Alpine Treeline: Coupling Paleoecology with Contemporary Studies
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    Chapter 51 The Risks Associated with Climatic Change in Mountain Regions
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    Chapter 52 Forests in Sustainable Mountain Development
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    Chapter 53 Institutional Dynamics and Interplay: Critical Processes for Forest Governance and Sustainability in the Mountain Regions of Northern Thailand
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    Chapter 54 State Simplifications of Land-Use and Biodiversity in the Uplands of Yunnan, Eastern Himalayan Region
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    Chapter 55 Mountain Biodiversity, Land Use Dynamics and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
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    Chapter 56 Land Use Intensification around Nature Reserves in Mountains: Implications for Biodiversity
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    Chapter 57 Nature Conservation Value of European Mountain Farming Systems
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    Chapter 58 Economic Globalisation and its Repercussions for Fragile Mountains and Communities in the Himalayas
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    Chapter 59 Research Partnerships for Mitigating Syndromes of Global Change in Mountain Regions
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    Chapter 60 Monitoring and Modelling for the Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Tropical Mountain Basins: The Mount Kenya Example
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    Chapter 61 Challenges in Mountain Watershed Management
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    Chapter 62 Overcoming the Vertical Divide: Legal, Economic, and Compensation Approaches for Sustainable Management of Mountain Watersheds
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    Chapter 63 Future Research Directions
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Title
Global change and mountain regions
Published by
Springer Science & Business Media, March 2006
DOI 10.1007/1-4020-3508-x
ISBNs
978-1-4020-3508-1, 978-1-4020-3506-7, 978-1-4020-3507-4
Authors

Huber, Uli. M, Bugmann, Harald K. M, Reasoner, Mel A

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Huber, Uli M., Bugmann, Harald K. M., Reasoner, Mel A.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Ecuador 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Philippines 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 148 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 23%
Researcher 26 16%
Student > Bachelor 21 13%
Student > Master 19 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 7%
Other 28 18%
Unknown 17 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 40 25%
Environmental Science 39 25%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 38 24%
Engineering 6 4%
Social Sciences 5 3%
Other 7 4%
Unknown 23 15%