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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 ... irrigation, and Z = grazing. 3523_C 016. fm Page 234 Wednesday, November 23, 2005 7:50 AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 236 Land Use Change and Mountai...

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... AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 176 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity to 2001, and it was the ranch with the best indi- cator values of management. It seems that this regulation ... species and disappeared rapidly. 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 Prairie Prairie -mountain range Mountain range 2 Mountain range 1 107 - 1328 kgDM/ha pits-f...

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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 ... records. C OLLECTION AND A NALYSIS OF A NTHROPOGENIC D ATA Regional demographic changes (rural migration process) and land use chang...

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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 ... interests (Inam-ur- Rahim and Maselli, 2004). Active participation of the local population is key and the bottom- line message from all mountain land- care pro- grams. Monaste...

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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 ... Effects of land use in alpine grasslands on the prob- ability of landslides. Basic Appl Ecol 4: 271–280. Tongway, D.J., Ludwig, J.A. (2000). The nature of...

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... Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity 39 ° 40 E. The rocks of the volcanic outpourings are predominantly trachytes but also include rhyolites, basalts, and associated agglomerates and ... Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 32 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity RELATIONS BETWEEN DISTRIBUTION AND E COLOGICAL CHARACTERS OF TREELINE S PECIES AND THEI...

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... 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 heathland and forest fragments, ... 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...

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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 1229.33 mm a -1 Bimodal-four seasons Lower-paramo 1 716. 07 mm a -1 Unimodal-two seasons Middle-paramo 164 4.33 ... such as Chingaza and Chisaca, than in the arid pára- mos and low mountains, such as Berlín and El Hato (Cleef, 1981; Sánchez-M and Ran- gel-Ch., 1990; Rangel-Ch....

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