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... 22, 200 5 11:23 AM Copyright © 200 6 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 278 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity FIGURE 20. 1 Age structure of Prosopis ferox in each plot (a–l) and ... & Francis Group, LLC 280 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity low establishment between 1960 and 1970, a marked increase between 1974 and 1990, and...

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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, 200 4). Active participation of the local population is key and the bottom- line message from all mountain land- care pro- grams. Monas...

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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 ... from human land use, one specific GMBA agenda is the assessment of land use impacts. Such assessments have priority in low-latitude regions, where land...

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... 22, 200 5 11:23 AM Copyright © 200 6 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 32 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity RELATIONS BETWEEN DISTRIBUTION AND E COLOGICAL CHARACTERS OF TREELINE S PECIES AND ... indicates presence and − is absence. 3523_book.fm Page 30 Tuesday, November 22, 200 5 11:23 AM Copyright © 200 6 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 36 Land Use Change...

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... 23, 200 5 7:50 AM Copyright © 200 6 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 ... 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...

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... .05. 3523_book.fm Page 95 Tuesday, November 22, 200 5 11:23 AM Copyright © 200 6 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 90 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity mountain grasslands are scarcely represented in the ... impor- tant land uses in many montane grasslands (Eckholm 1975). Particularly in Andean grass- lands, extensive cattle grazing is often com- bined with burning...

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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 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. 200 0. Aves. En J...

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... Page 125 Tuesday, November 22, 200 5 11:23 AM Copyright © 200 6 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 120 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity system generates a landscape mosaic of areas under ... Venezuela. Mountain Research and Development, 17(3): 197–211. 3523_book.fm Page 134 Tuesday, November 22, 200 5 11:23 AM Copyright © 200 6 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC...

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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 ... remains on lowland grasslands of the community during the favorable wet season while the uplands remain without livestock resulted in undergraz- ing of natural high-elevation grassl...

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... Tuesday, November 22, 200 5 11:23 AM Copyright © 200 6 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 176 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity to 200 1, and it was the ranch with the best indi- cator values of ... 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-fer...

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