Mountain Environments in Changing Climates

I: Climate Change in Mountain Regions; 1: Past and Potential Future Changes in Mountain Environments; 2: The Alps under Local, Regional and Global Pressure; 3: Using Multiple High-Resolution Proxy Climate Records to Reconstruct Natural Climate Variability; 4: Climate in Europe During the Late Maunder Minimum Period (1675-1715); 5: Accelerated Glacier and Permafrost Changes in the Alps; 6: Monitoring Snow Cover Variations in the Alps Using the Alpine Snow Cover Analysis System (ASCAS); 7: Effects of Mesoscale Vegetation Distributions in Mountainous Terrain on Local Climate; 8: Climate Scenarios for Mountain Regions; II: Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetation; 9: Impact of Atmospheric Changes on High Mountain Vegetation; 10: Long-Term Vegetation Change in Mountain Environments; 11: Latitudinal Variation in the Potential Response of Mountain Ecosystems to Climatic Change; 12: Comparing the Behaviour of Mountainous Forest Succession Models in a Changing Climate; 13: Ecological Aspects of Climatically-Caused Timberline Fluctuations; 14: Recent Changes in the Growth and Establishment of Subalpine Conifers in Western North America; 15: Dynamics and Functioning of Rhododendron Ferrugineum Subalpine Heathlands (Northern Alps, France); 16: A Dendrochemical Perspective on the Effects of Climate Change in the Ozark Highlands; 17: Phenology as a Tool in Topoclimatology; 18: Design of an Intensive Monitoring System for Swiss Forests; III: Socio-Economic Aspects of Climate Change in Mountain Regions; 19: Climate Risk Concern in an Alpine Community; 20: Environmental Perception, Climate Change, and Tourism; 21: Climate Change and Winter Tourism; 22: Localizing the Threats of Climate Change in Mountain Environments; 23: Sensitivity of Mountain Runoff and Hydro-Electricity to Changing Climate; 24: Mountain Environments and Climate Change in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas; 25: Evaluating the Effects of Climatic Change on Marginal Agriculture in Upland Areas; 26: Toward a Global Network of Mountain Protected Areas; IV: Conclusion; 27: Should Mountain Communities Be Concerned about Climate Change?