Global Change and Protected Areas

by Guido Visconti

Book Overview

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]...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792369181
• ISBN13: 9780792369189
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"