Chapter 1 Guideline for Describing Soil Profiles in Mountain Ecosystems

Chapter 2 Peripheral Plant Population Survival in Polar Regions

Chapter 3 Climate Change and High Mountain Vegetation Shifts

Chapter 4 Regeneration of Whitebark Pine in the Timberline Ecotone of the Beartooth Plateau, U.S.A.: Spatial Distribution and Responsible Agents

Chapter 5 Structure and the Composition of Species in Timberline Ecotones of the Southern Andes

Chapter 6 Pocket Gopher — Actor under the Stage. Studies on Niwot Ridge, Colorado Front Range, U.S.A.

Chapter 7 The Impact of Seed Dispersal by Clark’s Nutcracker on Whitebark Pine: Multi-scale Perspective on a High Mountain Mutualism

Chapter 8 Humus Forms and Reforestation of an Abandoned Pasture at the Alpine Timberline (Upper Engadine, Central Alps, Switzerland)

Chapter 10 Woodland Recolonisation and Postagricultural Development in Italy

Chapter 11 Isolated Mountain Forests in Central Asian Deserts: A Case Study from the Govi Altay, Mongolia

Chapter 12 The Upper Timberline in the Himalayas, Hindu Kush and Karakorum: a Review of Geographical and Ecological Aspects