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Global Change and Protected Areas

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Editors:
  1. Guido Visconti

    1. Department of Physics, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

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  2. Martin Beniston

    1. University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

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  3. Emilio D. Iannorelli

    1. Regione Abruzzo, L’Aquila, Italy

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  4. Diego Barba

    1. Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico d’Abruzzo, L’Aquila, Italy

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Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 9)

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Table of contents (48 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Global Change and Mountain Regions — an IGBP Initiative for Collaborative Research

    • Alfred Becker, Harald Bugmann
    Pages 3-9

  3. Climate Variations in Italy in the Last 130 Years

    • Michele Brunetti, Letizia Buffoni, Franca Mangianti, Maurizio Maugeri, Teresa Nanni
    Pages 11-17

  4. Dendroclimatic Information on Silver Fir (Abies Alba Mill.) in the Northern Apennines

    • Michele Brunetti, Daniele Gambetti, Guido Lo Vecchio, Teresa Nanni
    Pages 19-27

  5. Trends in High Frequency Precipitation Variability in Some Northern Italy Secular Stations

    • Michele Brunetti, Letizia Buffoni, Maurizio Maugeri, Teresa Nanni
    Pages 29-36

  6. Climate Change Experiments on a Glacier Foreland in the Central Alps

    • Brigitta Erschbamer
    Pages 37-44

  7. High Mountain Summits as Sensitive Indicators of Climate Change Effects on Vegetation Patterns: The “Multi Summit-Approach” of GLORIA (Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments)

    • Harald Pauli, Michael Gottfried, Karl Reiter, Georg Grabherr
    Pages 45-51

  8. Temperature and Precipitation Trends in Italy During the Last Century

    • E. Piervitali, M. Colacino
    Pages 53-60

  9. Climate and other Sources of Change in the St. Elias Region

    • D. Scott Slocombe
    Pages 61-69

  10. Permafrost and Climate in Europe. Climate Change, Mountain Permafrost Degradation and Geotechnical Hazard

    • Charles Harris, Daniel Vonder Muhll
    Pages 71-82

  11. Thermal Variations of Mountain Permafrost: an Example of Measurements Since 1987 in the Swiss Alps

    • Daniel Vonder Mühll
    Pages 83-95

  12. Climate Change and Air Quality Assessment in Canadian National Parks

    • David Welch
    Pages 97-107

  13. Regional Clean Air Partnerships and the ETEAM

    • Erik R. Hauge
    Pages 109-117

  14. Land-Atmosphere Interactions

    • R. A. Pielke, T. N. Chase, J. Eastman, L. Lu, G. E. Liston, M. B. Coughenour et al.
    Pages 119-126

  15. Uncertainties in the Prediction of Regional Climate Change

    • Filippo Giorgi, Raquel Francisco
    Pages 127-139

  16. Gamma-Ray Spectrometer for “In Situ” Measurements on Glaciers and Snowfields

    • Antonella Balerna, Enrico Bernieri, Maurizio Chiti, Ubaldo Denni, Adolfo Esposito, Antonietta Frani
    Pages 141-146

  17. Cs-137 Gamma Peak Detection in Snow Layers on Calderone Glacier

    • Antonella Balerna, Enrico Bernieri, Adolfo Esposito, Massimo Pecci, Claudio Smiraglia
    Pages 147-152

  18. The Effects of Global Warming on Mountain Regions: a Summary of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    • M. Beniston
    Pages 155-185

  19. Global Change in Respect to Tendency to Acidification of Subarctic Mountain Lakes

    • Vladimir Dauvalter, Tatyana Moiseenko, Ludmila Kagan
    Pages 187-194

  20. Influence of Climate, Species Immigration, Fire, and Men on Forest Dynamics In Northern Italy, from 6000 Cal. BP To Today

    • Thomas Mathis, Franziska Keller, Adrian Möhl, Lucia Wick, Heike Lischke
    Pages 195-208
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About this book

High mountains can be considered as particularly appropriate environments to detect effects ofclimate change on natural biocoenoses in a global scale for the following reasons: Firstly, ecosystems at the l- temperature limits of plant life are generally thought to be especially sensitive to climate change [1][2][3]. An already ongoing upward shift of vascular plants at high summits in the Alps, determined by the Austrian IGBP-research [4][5][6][7][8], is most likely a response to the atmospheric warming since the 19th century. Secondly, high mountains still comprise the most natural ecosystems in many countries, being largely untouched by human settlements and agricultural influences, Therefore, climatic effects on ecosystems can be studied without masking effects from human land use. Thirdly, high mountain ranges are present in virtually every major zonobiome of the earth. The research initiative GLORIA aims to establish an urgently needed global monitoring network, by using high mountain ecosystems as sensitive indicators, as required in the “IGBP-Mountain Workplan” [9]. Moreover, a deeper understanding of assemblagemechanisms andassemblage processes in vegetation patterns as a contribution to ecological theory can be expected. This paper gives a short general overview about GLORIA and a first outline about the concept, method, and some few results of the “Multi Summit-Approach”, one of the basic intentions within the proposed network. It aims to encourage the involvement of high mountain researchers and research co-ordinators in a detailed discussion of the proposed research activities and in a co-operation within the planned global monitoring network.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

    Guido Visconti

  • University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

    Martin Beniston

  • Regione Abruzzo, L’Aquila, Italy

    Emilio D. Iannorelli

  • Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico d’Abruzzo, L’Aquila, Italy

    Diego Barba

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Global Change and Protected Areas

  • Editors: Guido Visconti, Martin Beniston, Emilio D. Iannorelli, Diego Barba

  • Series Title: Advances in Global Change Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48051-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6918-9Published: 30 April 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5686-3Published: 22 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-48051-5Published: 11 April 2006

  • Series ISSN: 1574-0919

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1621

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 524

  • Topics: Geology, Hydrogeology, Atmospheric Sciences, Ecology, Environmental Management

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