Alpine grassland ecosystem supports high diversity of terrestrial flora and fauna species. Despite the ecological importance economic potential this unique type, it experiences increasing anthropogenic disturbances such as trampling, which impose negative impact on health integrity alpine grasslands. Previous studies trampling vegetation mainly focus changes in cover taxonomic after disturbance...

The goal of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation‟s Global Development Program is to improve the income and well-being of people living on less than $2 per day. The Program seeks to promote specific changes that will help reduce extreme poverty in a set of target countries. To achieve this goal, the Global Development Program will invest in three complementary drivers of economic growth: (1)...

Abstract In Govci under Mt. Poldanovec above the Trebuša Valley we found a new locality of southeastern-Alpine (Alpic) endemic Spiraea decumbens subsp. tomentosa , which is to flora Slovenia and Dinaric Alps. Its closest known localities are in western Julian Prealps Northeastern Italy. A small population several ten shrublets occurs at elevations about 570 m shady, almost vertical dolomite roc...

West Carpathian Mesozoic paleogeographic development indicates the effect of a left lateral shift of the Alpine- Carpathian microcontinent along the European shelf since the Early Jurassic. The evolution during Late Triassic/Early Jurassic was controlled by convergence along the border of the Meliata Ocean and by contemporaneous divergence along the Middle Atlantic/Penninic rift. During Mid-Cre...

The alpine grassland ecosystem can sequester a large quantity of carbon, yet its significance remains controversial owing to large uncertainties in the relative contributions of climate factors and grazing intensity. In this study we surveyed 115 sites to measure ecosystem carbon storage (both biomass and soil) in alpine grassland over the Qinghai Plateau during the peak growing season in 2011 ...

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in several aspects of plant biology in the alpine zone of Mount Kenya. To my knowledge, at least a dozen research projects were carried out between 1977 and 1984. Fortunately, the flora of the region has been the subject of a fine monograph by Hedberg (1957), and the currently available volumes of the Flora of Tropical East Africa (FTEA here...

Alpine steppe is considered to be the largest grassland type on the Tibetan Plateau. This grassland contributes to the global carbon cycle and is sensitive to climate changes. The allocation of biomass in an ecosystem affects plant growth and the overall functioning of the ecosystem. However, the mechanism by which plant biomass is allocated on the alpine steppe remains unclear. In this study, ...