Alpine Biodiversity in Europe

1 An Outline of Europe's Alpine Areas.- 2 A Bioclimatic Characterisation of Europe's Alpine Areas.- 3 The Regional Accounts.- 4 Overview: Patterns in Diversity.- 5 Taxonomic Diversity of Vascular Plants in the European Alpine Areas.- 6 Patterns in the Plant Species Richness of European High Mountain Vegetation.- 7 Altitude Ranges and Spatial Patterns of Alpine Plants in Northern Europe.- 8 Vascular Plant and Bryophyte Diversity Along Elevational Gradients in the Alps.- 9 Assessing the Long-Term Dynamics of Endemic Plants at Summit Habitats.- 10 Mapping Alpine Vegetation.- 11 A GIS Assessment of Alpine Biodiversity at a Range of Scales.- 12 Overview: Invertebrate Diversity in Europe's Alpine Regions.- 13 The Geographical Distribution of High Mountain Macrolepidoptera in Europe.- 14 High Altitude Invertebrate Diversity in the Ural Mountains.- 15 The Diversity of High Altitude Arachnids (Araneae, Opiliones, Pseudoscorpiones) in the Alps.- 16 Patterns of Butterfly Diversity Above the Timberline in the Italian Alps and Apennines.- 17 Diversity Patterns of Carabids in the Alps and the Apennines.- 18 Overview: Alpine Vertebrates - Some Challenges for Research and Conservation Management.- 19 Breeding Bird Assemblages and Habitat Use of Alpine Areas in Scotland.- 20 Rodents in the European Alps: Population Ecology and Potential Impacts on Ecosystems.- 21 Large Herbivores in European Alpine Ecosystems: Current Status and Challenges for the Future.- 22 Diversity of Alpine Vertebrates in the Pyrenees and Sierra Nevada, Spain.- 23 The Impacts of Vertebrate Grazers on Vegetation in European High Mountains.- 24 Overview: Alpine Vegetation Dynamics and Climate Change - a Synthesis of Long-Term Studies and Observations.- 25 Long-Term Changes in Alpine Plant Communities inNorway and Finland.- 26 Vegetation Dynamics at the Treeline Ecotone in the Ural Highlands, Russia.- 27 Recent Increases in Summit Flora Caused by Warming in the Alps.- 28 The Piz Linard (3411 m), the Grisons,

Christian Körner was born in 1949 in Salzburg, Austria, got his academic degrees from the University of Innsbruck, and became professor of botany at the University of Basel, Switzerland in 1989. He published over 300 scientific articles on plant-environment interactions and authored and coauthored numerous scientific books, including the leading plant science textbook Strasburger.

" ... this high-quality book is far more than just a first step, and should be in the library of every organization concerned in any way with alpine biodiverslity in Europe". (Mountain Research and Development - International Mountain Society)