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... alpine shrubs and meadows in the mountains and Tarai-Duar savannas and grasslands in the low- land Tarai (see Box 22. 1). For more than three decades, a large number of management prob- lems, ... 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...

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... Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:23 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 ... 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-fertilized-r...

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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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... 22, 2005 11:23 AM Copyright © 2006 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 ... 278 Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:23 AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 280 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity low establishment between 1960...

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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 ... 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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... (1986); Miehe and Miehe (1994) . 3523_book.fm Page 27 Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:23 AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 30 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity TABLE ... indicates presence and − is absence. 3523_book.fm Page 30 Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:23 AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 36 Land Use Change an...

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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 ... .05. 3523_book.fm Page 95 Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:23 AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 90 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity mountain grass...

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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. 2000. Aves. En J...

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