Overview
- Unique case studies from the Pyrenees providing a view of the main processes involved in the ecosystem shifts in the high mountains
- In-depth research into the high mountain experiencing increasing temperatures causing shifts related to atmospheric chemical deposition, land use, and species invasion
- A study of how high mountains hold the largest areas for nature conservation, and in many countries are still considered a wilderness
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 62)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Current Challenges of High Mountain Conservation
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Developing a Historical Perspective of the High Mountain Social-Ecological System
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Emerging Values in Mountain Conservation
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Global Change and High Mountain Conservation
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About this book
This book provides case studies and general views of the main processes involved in the ecosystem shifts occurring in the high mountains and analyses the implications for nature conservation. Case studies from the Pyrenees are preponderant, with a comprehensive set of mountain ranges surrounded by highly populated lowland areas also being considered.
The introductory and closing chapters will summarise the main challenges that nature conservation may face in mountain areas under the environmental shifting conditions. Further chapters put forward approaches from environmental geography, functional ecology, biogeography, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Organisms from microbes to large carnivores, and ecosystems from lakes to forest will be considered.
This interdisciplinary book will appeal to researchers in mountain ecosystems, students and nature professionals.
This book is open access under a CC BY license.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World
Editors: Jordi Catalan, Josep M Ninot, M. Mercè Aniz
Series Title: Advances in Global Change Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55982-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55981-0Published: 22 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85796-1Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55982-7Published: 03 August 2017
Series ISSN: 1574-0919
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 413
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 86 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nature Conservation, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Ecosystems, Environmental Geography