Mountain Ecosystems

This volume focuses on interaction between vegetation, relief, climate, soil and fauna in the treeline ecotone, and the effects of climate change and land use in North America and Europe.

A thorough study of the treeline in high mountains with special regard to:

Mountains Ecosystems Studies in Treeline Ecology General Aspects of Vegetation and Soils in Cold Environments.- Guideline for Describing Soil Profiles in Mountain Ecosystems.- Peripheral Plant Population Survival in Polar Regions.- Climate Change and High Mountain Vegetation Shifts.- Mountain Ecosystems Studies in Treeline Ecology Regional Treeline Studies in America.- Regeneration of Whitebark Pine in the Timberline Ecotone of the Beartooth Plateau, U.S.A.: Spatial Distribution and Responsible Agents.- Structure and the Composition of Species in Timberline Ecotones of the Southern Andes.- Pocket Gopher ¿ Actor under the Stage. Studies on Niwot Ridge, Colorado Front Range, U.S.A..- The Impact of Seed Dispersal by Clark¿s Nutcracker on Whitebark Pine: Multi-scale Perspective on a High Mountain Mutualism.- Mountain Ecosystems Studies in Treeline Ecology Regional Treeline Studies in Europe.- Humus Forms and Reforestation of an Abandoned Pasture at the Alpine Timberline (Upper Engadine, Central Alps, Switzerland).- A Discontinuous Tree-ring Record AD 320¿1994 From Dividalen, Norway: Inferences on Climate and Treeline History.- Woodland Recolonisation and Postagricultural Development in Italy.- Mountain Ecosystems Studies in Treeline Ecology Regional Treeline Studies in Asia.- Isolated Mountain Forests in Central Asian Deserts: A Case Study from the Govi Altay, Mongolia.- The Upper Timberline in the Himalayas, Hindu Kush and Karakorum: a Review of Geographical and Ecological Aspects.