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... impor- tant land uses in many montane grasslands (Eckholm 1 975 ). Particularly in Andean grass- lands, extensive cattle grazing is often com- bined with burning of the natural vegetation (Schmidt and ... 19. 27 73.15 ± 18.21 38 .72 ± 7. 03 1 67. 80 ± 19.38 10.80 0.002 >1 year Live 391.53 ± 66.42 288.44 ± 44.93 3 27. 87 ± 25.26 445.95 ± 30 .70 184 .76 ± 50.86 13.22 0.001 Standing de...

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... LLC 30 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity TABLE 2.3 The distribution of the diversity (H), evenness of the 13 community types, and a verage value for incidence of fire in lower, central, and ... Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity 39 ° 40 E. The rocks of the volcanic outpourings are predominantly trachytes but also include rhyolites, basalts, and...

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... Venezuela. Mountain Research and Development, 17( 3): 1 97 211. 3523_book.fm Page 134 Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:23 AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 122 Land Use Change and Mountain ... & Francis Group, LLC 120 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity system generates a landscape mosaic of areas under cultivation, under natural veget...

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... economically privi- leged parts, population growth and land use pres- sure have often caused an expansion of agricul- tural land use into less suitable regions and abandonment of traditional land use practices. Both ... States of America on acid-free paper 109 876 54321 International Standard Book Number-10: 0-8 49 3-3 523-X (Hardcover) International Standard Book Number-...

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... event (1996 to 19 97) , when large areas of the 3523_C005.fm Page 69 Wednesday, November 23, 2005 7: 50 AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 72 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity ... Wednesday, November 23, 2005 7: 50 AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 74 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity Sørensen index, fores...

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... Latin-America 1500 High-Andean-Lower-paramo 170 3. 97 mm a -1 Bimodal-four seasons Upper-paramo 1229.33 mm a -1 Bimodal-four seasons Lower-paramo 171 6. 07 mm a -1 Unimodal-two seasons Middle-paramo 1644.33 ... 114 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity provide appropriate subsistence; small land- owners who own less than 2.2 ha produce 12 t/ha, which gener...

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... 162 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity The total carrying capacity of the Palccoyo community, on the other hand, was only 10,932.3 OU/ha/a or 1.64 OU/ha/a. The land use factor (expressed ... Group, LLC 156 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity essential for the feeding of alpacas and sheep during the dry season. Grazing system, and the spatial a...

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... species and disappeared rapidly. 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 Prairie Prairie -mountain range Mountain range 2 Mountain range 1 1 07 - 1328 kgDM/ha pits-fertilized-recovery 94 - 77 1 kgDM/ha pits-fertilized-recovery 106 ... LLC 184 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity Behnke, R.H. and Scoones, I. (1993). Rethinking range ecology: implications for ran...

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... rates and slow litter decom- position. Life-forms dominant in Andean wet- lands show morphological and ecophysiological adaptations to low tempera- tures and extreme daily temperature fluctua- tions ... Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity of land surface) made up of highly palatable forbs and grasses (80% vegetation cover), such as Calamagrostis mulleri , M...

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... 234 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity TABLE 16.5 Progressive or degressive spreading of plant species in the Pamir as a consequence of land use and desertification factors Degressive ... the differ- ences of landscape structure and land use. Biodiversity has been documented quite well by the various studies of the region. For all vegetation types, land use...

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