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The Climate of the Mountains, Originality and Spatial Variability

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There are many features that make mountains a complex system where everything is interrelated. Elevation is perhaps the most important of these, together with steep slopes, as they condition many other factors, including climate, the spatial distribution of vegetation and soils, the transfer of sediments between slopes and valley bottoms and, without a doubt, land uses.

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    José M. García-Ruiz, Teodoro Lasanta, Estela Nadal-Romero & Juan Ignacio López-Moreno

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García-Ruiz, J.M., Arnáez, J., Lasanta, T., Nadal-Romero, E., López-Moreno, J.I. (2024). The Climate of the Mountains, Originality and Spatial Variability. In: Mountain Environments: Changes and Impacts. Earth and Environmental Sciences Library. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51955-0_5

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