Mountain Environments: Changes and Impacts Natural Landscapes and Human Adaptations to Diversity
This book studies mountains with a global perspective, like a complex topographic and topoclimatic mosaic organized in altitudinal belts that are influenced by a huge variability in slopes, soils, lithology and insolation. Furthermore, the presence of lower temperatures, higher precipitation and the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | Earth and Environmental Sciences Library
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- How are mountains defined and why are they so important?
- The changing world of mountains in the long term
- The discovery of mountains: from enigma to exploitation
- The climate of the mountains, originality and spatial variability
- Snow in the mountains
- Ice and glaciers in the mountains
- The main features of mountain vegetation and its altitudinal organization. The timberline
- Hydrology and fluvial morphology in mountains: those special rivers
- Landforms and geomorphological processes: from summits to valley bottoms
- Creation and organization of mountain landscapes by human societies
- Living in the mountains: The wide variety of land uses and their geo-ecological consequences
- Global change in mountains and its consequences at different scales
- Mountains: As difficult to exploit as they are to conserve. An integrative look at mountain landscapes and societies