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Mountain Biodiversity Day 2021 – biodiversity and pandemic [PDF]
On 13 January 2021, the French Ministry of the Environment in cooperation with ALPARC, UNEP and the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention organized the virtual Mountain Biodiversity Day. The event gathered together experts in the field of mountain biodiversity and political representatives from mountain regions all over the world in order to ...
Chris Walzer, Guido Plassmann
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MOUNTAIN NATURAL BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN RUSSIA
High biodiversity and degree of endemism of mountain biota strengthen the mountain regions’ status for the territorial nature conservation. Analysis of the protected areas’ representativeness in various mountain regions of Russia shows some discrepancy ...
Arkady Tishkov, Elena Belonovskaya
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Mountains are remarkable storehouses of global biodiversity that provide a broad range of ecosystem services underpinning billions of livelihoods. The world’s network of protected areas includes many iconic mountain landscapes. However, only ca.
Peter Jacobs +6 more
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Biodiversity in China's mountains [PDF]
China, one of the world's “megabiodiversity countries”, is home to more than 30 000 vascular plant and 6300 vertebrate species. Over thousands of years, however, cultivation has led to the disappearance of many of these species from the plains and lowland areas.
Zhiyao Tang +3 more
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Mountain Biodiversity in Romania
There exists a strong link between mountain regions and biodiversity. These regions represent the most important source of regional and global ecosystems forming the core elements of environmental and sustainable development policies. Mountains operate as true refuge for endemic species but are affected by uncontrolled human actions, while alpine ...
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Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity [PDF]
Datasets and scripts associated with this publication in Nature Geoscience.
Alexandre Antonelli +14 more
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Dendrobium nobile is a beautiful orchid and a widely used medicinal plant. In vitro antioxidant assays suggested that D. noblie flower extracts showed significantly higher 2, 2′-azinobis-3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulfonate (ABTS) and 1, 1-diphenyl-2 ...
Dan Rao +5 more
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Agroforestry has many benefits suited to mountain agricultural systems. This paper seeks to understand and quantify the mitigation potential of multifunctional agroforestry systems, and the potential for increased tree cover in mountains.
Robert J. Zomer +3 more
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A survey of Tmarus Simon, 1875 (Araneae, Thomisidae) from Fanjing Mountain Nature Reserve, Guizhou, China [PDF]
Tmarus Simon, 1875 is a relatively large spider genus, currently includes 227 species distributed worldwide. Fanjing Mountain Nature Reserve is one of China’s most biodiverse regions. However, Tmarus can be regarded as being poorly represented in Fanjing
Weicheng Yang +3 more
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Mountain biodiversity and elevational gradients [PDF]
Mountains are excellent systems for studying species responses to changing conditions because climatic conditions and related productivity measures change rapidly over short distances (Korner 2007). Mountains also often have high biodiversity and high levels of endemism (Hoorn et al. 2018, Rahbek et al.
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