Alpine Biodiversity in Europe

Abstract

Overview: An Outline of Europe's Alpine Areas.- A Bioclimatic Characterisation of Europe's Alpine Areas.- The High Mountain Vegetation of: the Scandes.- The High Mountain Vegetation of Scotland.- Vegetation of the Giant Mountains, Central Europe.- The Alpine Vegetation of the Alps.- The Alpine Flora and Vegetation of the South-Eastern Carpathians.- The High Mountain Flora and Vegetation of the Apennines and the Italian Alps.- The Vegetation of the Alpine Zone in the Pyrenees.- High Mountain Vegetation of the Caucasus Region.- The Vegetation of the Corsican High Mountains.- The High Mountain Vegetation of the Balkan Peninsula.- Overview: Patterns in Diversity.- TAxonomic Diversity of Vascular Plants in the European Alpine Areas.- Patterns in the Plant Species Richness of European High Mountain Vegetation.- Altitude Ranges and Spatial Patterns of Alpine Plants in Northern Europe.- Vascular Plant and Bryophyte Diversity Along Elevational Gradients in the Alps.- Assessing the Long-term Dynamics of Endemic Plants at Summit Habitats.- Mapping Alpine Vegetation.- A GIS Assessment of Alpine Biodiversity at a Range of Scales.- Overview: Invertebrate Diversity in Europe's Alpine Regions.- The Geographical Distribution of High Mountain Macrolepidoptera in Europe.- High Altitude Invertebrate Diversity in the Ural Mountains.- The Diversity of High Altitude Arachnids (Araneae. Opiliones, Pseudoscorpiones) in the Alps.- Patterns of Butterfly Diversity Above the Timberline in the Italian Alps and Apennines.- Diversity Patterns of Carabids in the Alps and the Apennines.- Overview: Alpine Vertebrates.- Breeding Bird Assemblages and Habitat Use of Alpine Areas in Scotland.- Rodents in the European Alps: Population Ecology and Potential Impacts on Ecosystems.- Large Herbivores in Continental European Alpine Ecosystems: Current Status and Challenges for the Future.- Diversity of Alpine Vertebrates in the Pyrenees and Sierra Nevada, Spain.- The Impacts of Vertebrate Grazers onVegetation in Eurpean High Mountains.- Overview: Alpine Vegetation Dynamics and Climate Change - a Synthesis of Long-term Studies and Observations.- Long-term Changes in Alpine Plant Communities in Norway and Finland.- Vegetation Dynamcis at the Treeline Ecotone in the Ural Highlands, Russia.- Recent Increases in Summit Flora Caused by Warming in the Alps.- The Piz Linard - Europe's Oldest Mountain Vegetation Study Site.- Alpine Biodiversity in Space and Time: A Synthesis