Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity - Chapter 11 ppt

... 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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... 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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... 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 ... abundant Demands on the environment — excessive 3523_book.fm Page 111 Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11: 23 AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 110 Land Us...

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... northwestern Argentina is characterized by grasslands, shru- blands, mature forests, and successional forests that became established on grasslands and shrublands in which grazing pressure has decreased. ... November 22, 2005 11: 23 AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 266 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity TABLE 19.1 Ages and area (m 2 ) of fo...

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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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... 2005 11: 23 AM Copyright © 2006 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, 2005 11: 23 AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 36 Land Use Change and...

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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 ... Page 95 Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11: 23 AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 90 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity mountain grasslands are scarcel...

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... Venezuela. Mountain Research and Development, 17(3): 197– 211. 3523_book.fm Page 134 Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11: 23 AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 122 Land Use Change and Mountain ... 125 Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11: 23 AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 120 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity system generate...

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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 ... 11: 23 AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 184 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity Behnke, R.H. and Scoones, I. (1993). Rethinking range ecolog...

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... rates and slow litter decom- position. Life-forms dominant in Andean wet- lands show morphological and ecophysiological adaptations to low tempera- tures and extreme daily temperature fluctua- tions ... November 22, 2005 11: 23 AM Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 188 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity of land surface) made up of highly palatable...

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