High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Catalan, Jordi (Editor), Ninot, Josep M. (Editor), Aniz, M. Mercè (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Advances in Global Change Research, 62
• Subjects: Environment.; Climate change.; Environmental geography.; Ecosystems.; Conservation biology.; Ecology.; Nature conservation.; Nature Conservation.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Conservation Biology/Ecology.; Environmental Geography.

This book aims to provide case studies and a general view of the main processes involved in the ecosystem shifts occurring in the high mountains, and to analyse the implications for nature conservation. Although case studies from the Pyrenees are preponderant, conclusions are aimed at any mountain r...