Hermann BRUGGER and Bruno DURRER 1 Mountain Rescue Service provided by the South Tyrolean Alpine Association, President of the International Commission for Alpine Emergency Medicine (ICAR MEDCOM), Europastrasse 17, I-39031 Bruneck, Italy and 2 Alpine Rescue Service, Swiss Alpine Club, Air Glaciers, President of the Medical Commission of the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (...

The purpose of the study was to examine potential differences between male and female alpine ski naive young people in attitudes towards alpine skiing before and after the completion of structured alpine ski school program. We included 136 ski beginners (41 women and 95 men) who anonymously filled out a previously validated 26-item Lickert scale-type questionnaire related to their attitudes tow...

The species diversity and changes in the structural dynamics of algal flora from alpine lake Nesamovyte has been studied for 100 years. During period investigations, 234 (245 infraspecific taxa) were revealed to cover more than 70% modern composition lake. biodiversity algae is characterized by an increase number widespread forms, a change baseline “montane” complex comparison beginning 20th ce...

Lactation curves are a graphical representation of the milk production profile of a doe from parturition to drying up. Their shape provides information about the productivity of the doe and offers a means of explaining features of the milk production patterns of each animal. A total of 2732 daily morning milk records from 610 does of the Kenyan Alpine dairy goats’ genetic groups (50% Alpine, 75...

Abstract Snow leopard (Panthera unica) is a felid which lives in the highly rugged areas of alpine regions different mountain ranges South and Central Asia. This solitary animal needs large spaces for its but due to climate change relatively faster rate global warming Asian ranges, habitat going shrink fragment by tree-line shifts hydrology area. Vegetative modification montane flora competitio...