Bioclimate.org: Global Change and Mountain Regions

Authors	Becker A. , Bugmann H.
Source	International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) (4)
Type	R - Report (613)
Peer Review	2 - Medium (2288)
Audience	S - Specialist (3514)
Pages	88
Notes	Mountain regions occupy about one fourth of the Earth’s surface and provide goods and services to about half of humanity. Accordingly, they received particular attention in the United Nations system, lastly by the UN Declaration for the year 2002 to be the “International Year of Mountains”. The strong altitudinal gradients in mountain regions provide unique and sometimes the best opportunities to detect and analyse global change processes and phenomena.