Climate Change On Mountains

Author : Jessica Halofsky,David L. Peterson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319569284

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Climate Change and Rocky Mountain Ecosystems by Jessica Halofsky,David L. Peterson Pdf

This book is the result of a team of approximately 100 scientists and resource managers who worked together for two years to understand the effects of climatic variability and change on water resources, fisheries, forest vegetation, non-forest vegetation, wildlife, recreation, cultural resources and ecosystem services. Adaptation options, both strategic and tactical, were developed for each resource area. This information is now being applied in the northern rocky Mountains to ensure long-term sustainability in resource conditions. The volume chapters provide a technical assessment of the effects of climatic variability and change on natural and cultural resources, based on best available science, including new analyses obtained through modeling and synthesis of existing data. Each chapter also contains a summary of adaptation strategies (general) and tactics (on-the-ground actions) that have been developed by science-management teams.

Author : Velma I. Grover,Axel Borsdorf,Jürgen Breuste,Prakash Chandra Tiwari,Flavia Witkowski Frangetto
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781482208917

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Impact of Global Changes on Mountains by Velma I. Grover,Axel Borsdorf,Jürgen Breuste,Prakash Chandra Tiwari,Flavia Witkowski Frangetto Pdf

Mountain regions encompass nearly 24 percent of the total land surface of the earth and are home to approximately 12 percent of the world's population. Their ecosystems play a critical role in sustaining human life both in the highlands and the lowlands. During recent years, resource use in high mountain areas has changed mainly in response to the

Author : Uli M. Huber,Harald K.M. Bugmann,Mel A. Reasoner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402035081

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Global Change and Mountain Regions by Uli M. Huber,Harald K.M. Bugmann,Mel A. Reasoner Pdf

This book gives an overview of the state of research in fields pertaining to the detection, understanding and prediction of global change impacts in mountain regions. More than sixty contributions from paleoclimatology, cryospheric research, hydrology, ecology, and development studies are compiled in this volume, each with an outlook on future research directions. The book will interest meteorologists, geologists, botanists and climatologists.

Author : Donald McKenzie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030424329

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Mountains in the Greenhouse by Donald McKenzie Pdf

This book is written for general readers with an interest in science, and offers the tools and ideas for understanding how climate change will affect mountains of the American West. A major goal of the book is to provide material that will not become quickly outdated, and it does so by conveying its topics through constants in ecological science that will remain unchanged and scientifically sound. The book is timely in its potential to be a long-term contribution, and is designed to inform the public about climate change in mountains accessibly and intelligibly. The major themes of the book include: 1) mountains of the American West as natural experiments that can distinguish the effects of climate change because they have been relatively free from human-caused changes, 2) mountains as regions with unique sensitivities that may change more rapidly than the Earth as a whole and foreshadow the nature and magnitude of change elsewhere, and 3) different interacting components of ecosystems in the face of a changing climate, including forest growth and mortality, ecological disturbance, and mountain hydrology. Readers will learn how these changes and interactions in mountains illuminate the complexity of ecological changes in other contexts around the world.

Author : Andrew J Hansen,William B Monahan,S. Thomas Olliff,David M. Theobald
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610917124

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Climate Change in Wildlands by Andrew J Hansen,William B Monahan,S. Thomas Olliff,David M. Theobald Pdf

Scientists have been warning for years that human activity is heating up the planet and climate change is under way. We are only just beginning to acknowledge the serious effects this will have on all life on Earth. The federal government is crafting broad-scale strategies to protect wildland ecosystems from the worst effects of climate change. One of the greatest challenges is to get the latest science into the hands of resource managers entrusted with vulnerable wildland ecosystems. This book examines climate and land-use changes in montane environments, assesses the vulnerability of species and ecosystems to these changes, and provides resource managers with collaborative management approaches to mitigate expected impacts. Climate Change in Wildlands proposes a new kind of collaboration between scientists and managers--a science-derived framework and common-sense approaches for keeping parks and protected areas healthy on a rapidly changing planet.

Author : Sten Nilsson,David Pitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134041251

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Mountain World in Danger by Sten Nilsson,David Pitt Pdf

The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and the forests of Europe. Mountains and the frozen regions (the cryosphere) not only play a major part in our climatic system, but are also central to our water supplies. Yet our glaciers are shrinking, our lakes and soils are becoming acidified, our forests are damaged and the whole fragile ecosystem of ranges like the Alps and the Caucasus is threatened. Nilsson and Pitt present the evidence and assess the probable effects of these changes on mountain society, tourism, water, flora and fauna. They also examine the uncertainties. Above all they look, too, at the best possible strategies in response to What is happening and at what the next steps should be. Originally published in 1991

Author : Udo Schickhoff,R.B. Singh,Suraj Mal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030702380

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Mountain Landscapes in Transition by Udo Schickhoff,R.B. Singh,Suraj Mal Pdf

This book compiles available knowledge of the response of mountain ecosystems to recent climate and land use change and intends to bridge the gap between science, policy and the community concerned. The chapters present key concepts, major drivers and key processes of mountain response, providing transdisciplinary orientation to mountain studies incorporating experiences of academics, community leaders and policy-makers from developed and less developed countries. The book chapters are arranged in two sections. The first section concerns the response processes of mountain environments to climate change. This section addresses climate change itself (past, current and future changes of temperature and precipitation) and its impacts on the cryosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and human-environment systems. The second section focuses on the response processes of mountain environments to land use/land cover change. The case studies address effects of changing agriculture and pastoralism, forest/water resources management and urbanization processes, landscape management, and biodiversity conservation. The book is designed as an interdisciplinary publication which critically evaluates developments in mountains of the world with contributions from both social and natural sciences.

Author : Henry F. Diaz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402013868

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Climate Variability and Change in High Elevation Regions: Past, Present & Future by Henry F. Diaz Pdf

Glaciers in the Andes are particularly important natural archives of present and past climatic and environmental changes, in significant part because of the N-S trend of this topographic barrier and its influence on the atmospheric circulation of the southern hemisphere. Strong gradients in the seasonality and amount of precipitation exist between the equator and 30° S. Large differences in amount east and west of the Andean divide also occur, as well as a change from tropical summer precipitation (additionally modified by the seasonal shift of the circulation belts) to winter precipitation in the west wind belt (e. g. , Yuille, 1999; Garraud and Aceituno, 2001). The so-called 'dry axis' lies between the tropical and extra tropical precipitation regimes (Figure 1). The high mountain desert within this axis responds most sensitively to the smallest changes in effective moisture. An important hydro-meteorological feature on a seasonal to inter-annual time-scale is the occurrence of EN SO events, which strongly control the mass balance of glaciers in this area (e. g. , Wagnon et ai. , 2001; Francou et ai. , in press). The precipitation pattern is an important factor for the interpretation of climatic and environmental records extracted from ice cores, because much of this information is related to conditions at the actual time of precipitation, and this is especially so for stable isotope records. Several ice cores have recently been drilled to bedrock in this area. From Huascanin (Thompson et ai. , 1995), Sajama (Thompson et ai.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1039879916

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Mountains and Climate Change by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Kohler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 3905835169

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Mountains and climate change : from understanding to action by Thomas Kohler Pdf

Author : Martin Beniston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317836025

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Environmental Change in Mountains and Uplands by Martin Beniston Pdf

Mountain environments are often perceived to be austere, isolated, and inhospitable. In fact, these areas are of immense value to mankind, providing direct life support to close to 10 percent of the world's population and sustaining a wide variety of species - many of which are endemic to this environment. 'Environmental Change in Mountains and Uplands' provides detailed account of the fragile and marginal physical and socio-economic systems which make up the world's mountain regions. Discussing the direct and indirect impacts of human interference on environmental ecosystems, it then turns to the social and economic consequences of such environmental change - both upon the mountain environment itself and upon the populations who depend on mountain resources for their economic sustenance. This book includes a review of possible implications for adaption and mitigation strategies in a global context. Working within a broad temporal scale, it draws upon paleoenvironmental records to document past changes which have occured in the absence of major anthropogenic influences, as well as utilising modelling as a means to assessing future environmental change.

Author : Roger G. Barry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134910953

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Mountain Weather and Climate by Roger G. Barry Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive text describing and explaining mountain weather and climate processes. It presents the results of a broad range of studies drawn from across the world. The book is useful for specialist courses in climatology as well as for scientists in related disciplines.

Author : Egan, Paul A.,Price, Martin F.
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231002250

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Mountain ecosystem services and climate change by Egan, Paul A.,Price, Martin F. Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:935688390

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Mountains and Climate Change by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry F. Diaz,Martin Beniston,Raymond S. Bradley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401589055

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Climatic Change at High Elevation Sites by Henry F. Diaz,Martin Beniston,Raymond S. Bradley Pdf

This book provides a unique, in-depth view of past, present and potential future climatic change in mountain regions, and in particular on the mechanisms which are responsible for this change. Other books which focus on environmental change in mountains focus more generally on the impacts of this change on mountain systems, rather than on the regional features of climatic change itself. The book enters into a high level of detail concerning results of international investigations which involve specialists from numerous climate-related disciplines. The book can be used in an academic and research context, for advanced graduate and doctoral students, as well as researchers working in various domains of relevance to climatic change issues. The book also has relevance in the context of future activities of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in terms of providing up-to-date knowledge of fundamental mechanisms and consequences of climatic change in mountain regions.