Land use change and mountain biodiversity / edited by Eva M. Spehn, Maximo Liberman, and Christian Korner.
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TextPublication details: Boca Raton, FL : CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2006.Description: xiii, 362 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN: - 084933523X (alk. paper)
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Selected papers from 2 workshops, the first held in Moshi, Tanzania, Aug. 19-24, 2002 and the second held in La Paz, Bolivia, Aug. 20-23, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Ch. 1. High-elevation land use, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning / Christian Korner, Gia Nakhutsrishvili and Eva M. Spehn -- Ch. 2. Diversity of Afroalpin vegetation and ecology of treeline species in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia and the influence of fire / Masresha Fetene, Yoseph Assefa, Menassie Gashaw, Zerihun Woldu and Erwin Beck -- Ch. 3. Is Afroalpine plant biodiversity negatively affected by high-altitude fires? / Karsten Wesche -- Ch. 4. The impact of fire on diversity, structure, and composition of the vegetation on Mt. Kilimanjaro / Andreas Hemp.
Contains information from various major mountain regions, with a focus on the Andes and on African mountains. This book presents an overview chapter on high elevation land use, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning. Highlighting the effects of fire and grazing, it provides a synthesis of human impacts on highland biodiversity.