High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World

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 preponde

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Jordi Catalan Josep M. Ninot M. Mercè Aniz Editors

High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World

High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World

ADVANCES IN GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH VOLUME 62

Editor-in-Chief Martin Beniston, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Editorial Advisory Board B. Allen-Diaz, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA W. Cramer, Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie Marine et Continentale (IMBE), Aix-en-Provence, France S. Erkman, Institute for Communication and Analysis of Science and Technology (ICAST), Geneva, Switzerland R. Garcia-Herrera, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain M. Lal, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India U. Lutterbacher, University of Geneva, Switzerland I. Noble, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia M. Stoffel, University of Bern, University of Geneva, Switzerland L. Tessier, Institut Mediterranéen d’Ecologie et Paléoécologie (IMEP), Marseille, France F. Toth, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria M.M. Verstraete, South African National Space Agency, Pretoria, South Africa

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High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World

Editors Jordi Catalan Biogeodynamics and Biodiversity Group CREAF—CSIC, Campus UAB Cerdanyola Spain

M. Mercè Aniz Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park Boi Spain

Josep M. Ninot University of Barcelona Barcelona Spain

ISSN 1574-0919 ISSN 2215-1621 (electronic) Advances in Global Change Research ISBN 978-3-319-55981-0 ISBN 978-3-319-55982-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55982-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017937113 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. This book is an open access publication Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be tru