1. Forest cover change assessment in conflict-affected areas of northwest Pakistan: the case of swat and shangla districts

   • Faisal Mueen Qamer
   • Sawaid Abbas
   • Hammad Gilani

   OriginalPaper 27 May 2012 Pages: 297 - 306

2. Social and ecological constraints on decision making by transhumant pastoralists: a case study from the Moroccan Atlas Mountains

   • Zakia Akasbi
   • Jens Oldeland
   • Manfred Finckh

   OriginalPaper 27 May 2012 Pages: 307 - 321

3. Last interglacial-glacial cycle and an attempt to reconstruct Würmian paleohumidity of the European Alps

   • Janez Turk

   OriginalPaper 27 May 2012 Pages: 322 - 330

4. Micro-site conditions of epiphytic orchids in a human impact gradient in Kathmandu valley, Nepal

   • Yagya Prasad Adhikari
   • Anton Fischer
   • Hagen Siegfried Fischer

   OriginalPaper 27 May 2012 Pages: 331 - 342

5. Thinning and shrinkage of Laohugou No. 12 glacier in the Western Qilian Mountains, China, from 1957 to 2007

   • Yingsong Zhang
   • Shiyin Liu
   • Jingdong Zhao

   OriginalPaper 27 May 2012 Pages: 343 - 350

6. Riparian vegetation dynamics across two different landscapes along the river Cauvery in the Kodagu region of Western Ghats

   • C. Sunil
   • R. K. Somashekar
   • B. C. Nagaraja

   OriginalPaper 27 May 2012 Pages: 351 - 361

7. Topographic influence on wetland distribution and change in Maduo County, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

   • Jay Gao
   • Xilai Li
   • Gary Brierley

   OriginalPaper 27 May 2012 Pages: 362 - 371

8. Forest biodiversity assessment in Peruvian Andean Montane cloud forest

   • Alicia Ledo
   • Sonia Condés
   • Iciar Alberdi

   OriginalPaper 27 May 2012 Pages: 372 - 384

9. Modeling biodiversity benefits and external costs from a keystone predator reintroduction policy

   • Yohan Lee
   • Jane L. Harrison
   • Byungdoo Lee

   OriginalPaper 27 May 2012 Pages: 385 - 394

10. The origin of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake determined by the analysis on the active Longmenshan nappe in terms of rockmass mechanics

    • Zhixin Yan
    • Guozhe Ma
    • Fujun Niu

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2012 Pages: 395 - 402

11. A comprehensive evaluation of tourism climate suitability in Qinghai Province, China

    • Chengcai Tang
    • Linsheng Zhong
    • Shengkui Cheng

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2012 Pages: 403 - 413

12. Landform instability and land-use dynamics in tropical high mountains, Central Mexico

    • Arturo García-Romero
    • José Fernando Aceves-Quesada
    • Carlos Arredondo-León

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2012 Pages: 414 - 430

13. Mountain effect and differences in storm floods between northern and southern sources of the Songhua River Basin

    • Hongyan Li
    • Ya’nan Wu
    • Xiubin Li

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2012 Pages: 431 - 440

14. Phosphorus sorption-desorption characteristics of ditch sediments from different land uses in a small headwater catchment in the central Sichuan Basin of China

    • Zhenhua Wang
    • Min He
    • Bo Zhu

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2012 Pages: 441 - 450