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Mountain Landscapes in Transition

Mountain Landscapes in Transition


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Dedication/Foreword: Bruno Messerli

1. Alpine ecosystems in a changing world (Udo Schickhoff, RB Singh, Suraj Mal)

Section I: Climate change and response processes of mountain environments

2. Anticipated shifting of thermal and moisture boundary under changing climate across Nepal (Rocky Talchabhadel, Ramchandra Karki)

3. Quantifying uncertainties in climate change projection and its impact on water availability in the Thuli Bheri river basin, Nepal (Anil Aryal, Manisha Maharjan, Rocky Talchabhadel)

4. Markers of climate change: analyzing extreme temperature indices over the Himalayan mountains and adjoining Punjab plains (Manu Raj Sharma, Vishwa B. S. Chandel, Karanjot Kaur Brar)

5. Spatio-temporal distribution of precipitation in the Himalayan region using TRMM satellite data (Nitu Singh, Sharad Kumar Gupta, C.S. Dubey, Dericks P. Shukla)

6. Spatial variations and long-term trends of rainfall across Uttarakhand Himalaya, India (Suraj Mal, Manohar Arora, Abhishek Banerjee, RB Singh, Christopher A. Scott, SK Allen, Ramchandra Karki)

7. Spatio-temporal heterogeneity in glaciers response across Western Himalaya (Saurabh Kaushika, P.K. Joshi, Tejpal Singh, Mohd. Farooq Azam)

8. Temporal variability of the Satopanth glacier facies at sub-pixel scale, Garhwal Himalaya, India (Bisma Yousuf, Aparna Shukla, MK Arora)

9. Decreasing water availability as a threat for traditional irrigation-based land-use systems in the Mustang Himalaya/Nepal (Jussi Grießinger, Wolfgang J.H. Meier, Philipp Hochreuther)

10. Glaciers, climate, and people: Holocene transitions in the Stubai Valley (Andrea Fischer, Lucia Felbauer, Andrina Jaenicke, Kay Helfricht, Helene Hoffmann, Eva-Maria Wild)

11. Environmental and socio-economic consequences of recent mountain glacier fluctuations in Norway (Philipp Marr, Stefan Winkler, Jörg Löffler)

12. Distance from retreating snowfields influences alpine plant functional traits at Glacier National Park, Montana (Martha E. Apple, Macy K. Ricketts, Alice C. Martin, Dennis J. Moritz)

13. Environmental drivers of species composition and tree species density of a near-natural Himalayan treeline ecotone. Implications for the response to climate change (Niels Schwab, Birgit Bürzle, Jürgen Böhner, Ram Prasad Chaudhary, Thomas Scholten, Udo Schickhoff)

14. Modelling the ecological niche of a treeline tree species (Betula utilis) in the Himalayas - a methodological overview (Maria Bobrowski)

15. Changing climate scenario in high altitude regions: Comparison of observed trends and perceptions of agro-pastoralists in Darma Valley, Uttarakhand, India (Deepika Rawat, Udo Schickhoff)

16. Conifer growth during warming hiatus in the Altay-Sayan Mountain Region, Siberia (Viacheslav I. Kharuk, Sergei T. Im, Il'ya A. Petrov)

17. Climate-induced fir (Abies sibirica Ledeb.) mortality in the Siberian Mountains (Viacheslav I. Kharuk, Sergei T. Im, Il'ya A. Petrov, Alexander S. Shushpanov and Maria L. Dvinskaya)

18. Climate change and dynamics of vegetation in the Lesser Caucasus: An overview (George Fayvush, Alla Aleksanyan)

19. Paraglacial time scale and sediment fluxes for hillslope land systems in the northern Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Canada (Daniel Germain, Ludwig Stabile-Caille)

Section II: Response processes of mountain environments to land use change

20. Dynamics of land use/land cover changes in


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783030702403
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 656
  • Spine Width: 35 mm
  • Weight: 1210 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3030702405
  • Publisher Date: 04 Nov 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Effects of Land Use and Climate Change
  • Width: 178 mm


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