Biomonitoring: General and Applied Aspects on Regional and Global Scales

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• A General aspects of biomonitoring.
• Biomonitoring — Tasks and limits.
• Statistical design and analysis in long-term vegetation monitoring.
• Administration levels and tasks of nature conservation efficiency control.
• B Examples of applied biomonitoring in Germany and Switzerland.
• Monitoring recent vegetation changes in nutrient-rich beechwoods in central Germany.
• Biomonitoring — Evaluation and assessment of heavy metal concentrations from two German moss monitoring surveys.
• Do phytophenological series contribute to vegetation monitoring?.
• Species responses to climatic variation and land-use change in grasslands of southern Switzerland.
• Little flowers in a mild winter.
• Vegetation monitoring on a small-scale restoration site in the alpine belt: Pilatus Kulm, Switzerland.
• C Aspects of global change in the Alps and in the high arctic region.
• Long-term monitoring of mountain peaks in the Alps.
• Monitoring of Eastern and Southern Swiss Alpine timberline ecotones.
• Observed changes in vegetation in relation to climate warming.
• Laurophyllisation — A sign of a changing climate?.
• Changes of plant community patterns, phytomass and carbon balance in a high arctic tundra ecosystem under a climate of increasing cloudiness.