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Global Change and Mountain Regions

An Overview of Current Knowledge

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Editors:
  1. Uli M. Huber

    1. University of Bern, Switzerland

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  2. Harald K. M. Bugmann

    1. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

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  3. Mel A. Reasoner

    1. The Mountain Research Initiative, Bern, Switzerland

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  • A comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in this important field of scientific research

Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 23)

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Table of contents (63 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: The International Year of Mountains Challenge and Opportunity for Mountain Research

    1. Introduction: The International Year of Mountains Challenge and Opportunity for Mountain Research

      • Thomas Hofer
      Pages 1-8

  3. Paleoenvironmental changes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-10
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    2. A Dynamical Perspective on High Altitude Paleoclimate Proxy Timeseries

      • Keith Alverson, Christoph Kull, G. W. K. Moore, Patrick Ginot
      Pages 11-20

    3. Understanding the Spatial Heterogeneity of Global Environmental Change in Mountain Regions

      • Sarah L. Shafer, Patrick J. Bartlein, Cathy Whitlock
      Pages 21-30

    4. Ice Cores from Tropical Mountain Glaciers as Archives of Climate Change

      • Lonnie G. Thompson, Mary E. Davis, Ping-Nan Lin, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Henry H. Brecher
      Pages 31-38

    5. The Contribution of Cosmogenic Nuclides to Unraveling Alpine Paleoclimate Histories

      • John C. Gosse
      Pages 39-49

    6. Holocene Glacier Fluctuations and Winter Precipitation Variations in Southern Norway

      • Atle Nesje, Svein Olaf Dahl, Øyvind Lie, Jostein Bakke
      Pages 51-60

    7. Glacier and Climate Variability in the Mountains of the Former Soviet Union during the last 1000 Years

      • Olga N. Solomina
      Pages 61-72

    8. Glacier-Climate Models as Palaeoclimatic Information Sources: Examples from the Alpine Younger Dryas Period

      • Hanns Kerschner
      Pages 73-81

    9. Holocene Environmental Change in the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau Region: Lake Sediments and the Future

      • J. Overpeck, K. B. Liu, C. Morrill, J. Cole, C. Shen, D. Anderson et al.
      Pages 83-92

    10. Water Resources in the Arid Mountains of the Atacama Desert (Northern Chile): Past Climate Changes and Modern Conflicts

      • Martin Grosjean, Heinz Veit
      Pages 93-104

    11. Palaeolimnological Investigations in the Alps: The Long-Term Development of Mountain Lakes

      • André F. Lotter
      Pages 105-112

    12. High Mountain Lakes and Atmospherically Transported Pollutants

      • Richard W. Battarbee, Simon Patrick, Martin Kernan, Roland Psenner, Hansjoerg Thies, Joan Grimalt et al.
      Pages 113-121

    13. Trace Metals, Fly-ash Particles and Persistent Organic Pollutants in European Remote Mountain Lakes

      • Neil L. Rose, Handong Yang, Pilar Fernández, Joan O. Grimait
      Pages 123-132

    14. Long-term Responses of Mountain Ecosystems to Environmental Changes: Resilience, Adjustment, and Vulnerability

      • Willy Tinner, Brigitta Ammann
      Pages 133-143

    15. Climate Fluctuations Derived from Tree-rings and Other Proxy-records in the Chilean Andes: State of the Art and Future Prospects

      • Antonio Lara, Alexia Wolodarsky-Franke, Juan Carlos Aravena, Ricardo Villalba, Maria Eugenia Solari, Liliana Pezoa et al.
      Pages 145-156

    16. Biogeographical Consequences of Recent Climate Changes in the Southern Andes of Argentina

      • Ricardo Villalba, Mariano H. Masiokas, Thomas Kitzberger, José A. Boninsegna
      Pages 157-166

  4. Cryospheric changes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-168
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    2. Mountain Glaciers in Global Climate-related Observing Systems

      • Wilfried Haeberli
      Pages 169-175
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About this book

Mountain regions occupy about a quarter of the global terrestrial land surface and provide goods and services to more than half the humanity. Global environmental change threatens the integrity of these systems and their ability to provide the goods and services upon which humanity has come to depend. This book gives an overview of the state of research in fields pertaining to the detection, understanding and prediction of global change impacts in mountain regions. More than 60 contributions from paleoclimatology, cryospheric research, hydrology, ecology, and development studies are compiled in this volume, each with an outlook on future research directions.

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"The challenge of global climate change is engaging scientists across a wide range of disciplines and has become an important issue for politicians and environmental agencies around the world. … This book is an essential collection of papers on important mountain-directed themes. … The editors and contributors are to be congratulated on the production of this timely book which will be a key text in tackling the challenges posed by climate change." (Wishart Mitchell, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 27 (1), 2007)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bern, Switzerland

    Uli M. Huber

  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

    Harald K. M. Bugmann

  • The Mountain Research Initiative, Bern, Switzerland

    Mel A. Reasoner

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