Understanding the spatial heterogeneity of global environmental change in mountain regions
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Abstract
One of the challenges for global environmental change research is to understand how future climate changes will be expressed in mountain regions. The physiographic complexity of mountains creates environments that can be highly variable over relatively short distances. This spatial heterogeneity reflects a hierarchy of environmental controls. At regional scales, insolation and atmospheric circulation features determine the dominant regional climate patterns that affect mountain regions. At finer spatial scales, substrate, aspect, elevation, and a number of other environmental factors influence ecosystem dynamics. Vegetation, for example, is affected by all levels of this hierarchy, from regional-scale climate regimes down to site-specific features, such as substrate type (cf. Körner, this volume).
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| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Understanding the spatial heterogeneity of global environmental change in mountain regions |
| DOI | 10.1007/1-4020-3508-X_3 |
| Year Published | 2005 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer Link |
| Contributing office(s) | Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center |
| Description | 10 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | Global change and mountain regions: An overview of current knowledge |
| First page | 21 |
| Last page | 30 |
| Country | United States |
| Other Geospatial | western United States |
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