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This volume contains a selection of 14 articles dealing with different aspects of biomonitoring and their relation to questions of global change. The first part concerns general aspects of biomonitoring. The second part gives examples of applied biomonitoring in Germany and Switzerland (changes in species composition, phenologies, vegetation restoration, changes in soil conditions, and heavy metal concentrations). The third part deals with climate-related monitoring studies of arctic-alpine and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere (mountain peaks and timberline ecotones of the Alps, spread of exotic evergreen broad-leaved plants, phytomass and carbon balance in Svalbard).

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Author:   Conradin A. Burga ,  Anselm Kratochwil
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2001
Volume:   35
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.434kg
ISBN:  

9789048156214

ISBN 10:   9048156211
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

A General aspects of biomonitoring.- Biomonitoring — Tasks and limits.- Statistical design and analysis in long-term vegetation monitoring.- Administration levels and tasks of nature conservation efficiency control.- B Examples of applied biomonitoring in Germany and Switzerland.- Monitoring recent vegetation changes in nutrient-rich beechwoods in central Germany.- Biomonitoring — Evaluation and assessment of heavy metal concentrations from two German moss monitoring surveys.- Do phytophenological series contribute to vegetation monitoring?.- Species responses to climatic variation and land-use change in grasslands of southern Switzerland.- Little flowers in a mild winter.- Vegetation monitoring on a small-scale restoration site in the alpine belt: Pilatus Kulm, Switzerland.- C Aspects of global change in the Alps and in the high arctic region.- Long-term monitoring of mountain peaks in the Alps.- Monitoring of Eastern and Southern Swiss Alpine timberline ecotones.- Observed changes in vegetation in relation to climate warming.- Laurophyllisation — A sign of a changing climate?.- Changes of plant community patterns, phytomass and carbon balance in a high arctic tundra ecosystem under a climate of increasing cloudiness.

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