Alps

Sustainable development in mountainous areas: The case of the department of Lozère, France

The study case presented in this report is the French département of Lozère. A particular interest of this case is precisely the fact that since the sixties, a number of development operations and actions have here been implemented on the whole department, and not on smaller homogeneous areas, as it was generally in the same time in France and other European countries. This...

Switzerland: He who plants trees will go to heaven

Karl Kasthofer was appointed District Forester in Interlaken in 1806. Conditions in Switzerland at this time were strikingly similar to conditions now found in so-called developing countries. The fundamental problem concerning forests in the early 19th century was one of conflicting demands at several different levels. Townspeople, and most foresters, originally saw the forest as a...

The historical and iconographic research in the reconstruction of the variation of the Calderone Glacier: State of the art and perspective
The Calderone Glacier is characterised by a reduction phase since the end of the "Little Ice Age" (LIA) Auct., particularly strong during the last decade. In fact during the nineties a set of multidisciplinary researches started to evaluate the role of the Glacier like an indicator of the effects of human activities and finally of regional and global climatic change. The apparatus is now confined...
Long-term variability in temperature, precipitation, and snow cover in the Australian Alps: Is there a link with declines of alpine frogs?
A number of species of frogs are confined to the Australian Alps. These include notably two species of Corroboree frog (Pseudophryne corroboree and P. pengilleyi), the Alpine Tree Frog (Litoria verreauxii) and the Baw Baw Frog (Philoria frosti). Three species, the Southern Corroboree Frog, Northern Corroboree Frog and the Baw Baw frog are found only in particularly wet and cool parts of the Alps...
Snow as a defining character of the alpine/subalpine fauna
There is an obvious decline in animal species abundance with increased altitude within the latitudinal band of south-eastern mainland Australia which encompasses the Australian Alps. Among the vertebrates, there is only one endemic mammal species, four frogs and five reptiles. The greatest degree of endemism occurs among the invertebrates. In the Australia Alps it is the snow rather than the...
The impacts of predicted changes in snow regimes on the distribution of alpine vegetation
Snow has been a dominant weather feature which has influenced the occurrence and distribution of plant communities in the Australian Alps. Snowfalls per se are considered to have had little direct influence on the vegetation but it is and has been the responses of plant species to the depth and length of snowpack, and the temperature and moisture regimes which have been associated with the...
The implications of ozone depletion on the fauna of the Australian Alps
The expected increases in ultraviolet-B radiation due to anthropogenic ozone depletion appear likely to have particular impact on the Australian Alps, as it is situated at high elevations, middle to high latitudes, and in the Southern Hemisphere. A number of studies have affirmed that ozone-related changes in UV-B will probably be most pronounced at such locations. While complete clarification of...

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