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... 168 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity 1997). At present, the increase in demand for water to satisfy the needs of economic and demo- graphic development constitutes a more serious and ... LLC 184 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity Behnke, R.H. and Scoones, I. (1993). Rethinking range ecology: implications for rangeland management in Africa. In B...

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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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... & Francis Group, LLC 280 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity low establishment between 1960 and 1970, a marked increase between 1974 and 1990, and another period of reduced establishment ... structure of the wood- lands with human demographic and land use changes, and with regional variations in precip- itation. Based on age structures from 12 stands,...

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... with China and India and represent mainly two ecoregions: alpine shrub and meadow in the mountains and Tarai-Duar savannas and grasslands in the lowland tarai. The main objective of this chapter ... prod- ucts), and illegal hunting. Tarai-Duar savannas and grasslands : The tropical alluvial grasslands, distributed in the lowlands of Nepal and Assam, are the last remnants...

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... sustainable land use in the highlands to be acknowledged, quantified, made public, and funded. Without such a lowland–highland contract, the long-term fate of the steep slopes in overpopulated mountain ... Pastoralism in highland Peru and Bolivia. In Browman, D.L. (Ed.). Arid Land Use Strategies and Risk Management in Highland Peru and Bolivia. Westview, Boulder, CO. pp...

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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 10987654321 International Standard Book Number-10: 0-8 49 3-3 523-X (Hardcover) International Standard Book Number-13...

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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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... AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 72 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity size exceeds 120 individuals per site in spe- cies-poor communities as in the case of Mt. Kilimanjaro, ... remnants and heath- land at 3100 m, and heathland vegetation at 3300 m. The sites at 3100 m, therefore, enable a direct comparison of geometrid moth communities in heat...

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... impor- tant land uses in many montane grasslands (Eckholm 1975). Particularly in Andean grass- lands, extensive cattle grazing is often com- bined with burning of the natural vegetation (Schmidt and ... & Francis Group, LLC 90 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity mountain grasslands are scarcely represented in the protected areas of Argentina, and little is kno...

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... Latin-America 1500 High-Andean-Lower-paramo 1703.97 mm a -1 Bimodal-four seasons Upper-paramo 122 9.33 mm a -1 Bimodal-four seasons Lower-paramo 1716.07 mm a -1 Unimodal-two seasons Middle-paramo 1644.33 ... & Francis Group, LLC 112 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity uncontrolled increase of events leading Del- gado, A.C. and J.O. Rangel-Ch. 2000. Av...

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