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The Changbai Mountain range is a well-known and important mountain chain in northeast China, bordering the Korean Peninsula in the south. It is also one of the areas most sensitive to global change. Massive peatlands that play a key role in the global carbon (C) cycle are found in this region. Estimating and assessing C dynamics in Changbai Mountain peatlands is of great importance to local...
This volume contains the main results of 20 years of fieldwork in the northwest Caucasus. More than 250 people were involved in a research programme based on scientific monitoring within the Teberde State Reserve in the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous County. Political changes, long-term monitoring techniques, problems of funding expensive field research campaigns, lack of appropriate...
This book presents an edited selection of papers from the Environ-Mount conference, held in 2002 - the year designated by the United Nations General Assemby as the International Year of Mountains in order to "elevate human understanding of mountains and their place, both cultural and ecological, in the life of nations." The conference took place in Zakopane, a historic and picturesque...
This is the first of what is to be periodic reports from the Mountain Partnership on the progress of its activities.
GLOCHAMORE (GLObal CHAnge in MOuntain REgions) is an EU-funded project to create an integrative research strategy for the detection, impacts, and potential responses to global change in UNESCO Mountain Biosphere Reserves (MBRs). GLOCHAMORE is a market place in which future research projects can be negotiated. Managers of Mountain Biosphere Reserves offer sites, natural resource systems, and...
Dr. Gregory B. Greenwood, a natural resources specialist trained in agricultural ecology, population ecology, and ruminant nutrition, is Executive Director of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) in Berne, Switzerland. His mandate is to develop a strategy to increase and focus global change research in mountain regions throughout the world as part of IHDP and IGBP programmes, and as a...
As a result of global change, mountain areas are increasingly threatened by invasive alien plants. The Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) initiates and integrates surveys, monitoring, experimental research, and management of plant invasions into mountains at a global scale.
Mountains and highlands occupy Russian Federation. In 2005, Russia had 36 Biosphere Reserves (BRs), of which 15 are Mountain Biosphere Reserves (MBRs). The MBRs represent different environmental and economic zones of Northern Eurasia; they lie far apart from one another. Laplandskiy MBR on the Kola Peninsula is an example of a reserve located in the arctic belt and affected by the mining industry...
Increasing attention is being paid to land use changes in the mountain environments of southwest China. Yet it is essential to develop a network of relevant sites for long-term analysis and comparison. For this reason an important part of an ongoing ethno-ecological project being undertaken by the Kunming Institute of Botany is the establishment of permanent vegetation plots across key...
The author examines progress made in farming systems research since the early 1970s, tracing its development up to the present.
He describes how the greatest progress was made in the 1980s, where land use systems were starting to be considered as variables in research and therefore subject to optimisation.
The 1990s brought an important change in farming systems research, with a...
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