Global Change and Protected Areas

by Visconti, Guido; Beniston, Martin; Iannorelli, Emilio D.; Barba, Diego

• ISBN13: 9780792369189
• ISBN10: 0792369181
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The scope of this book is to show that protected areas may be the regions where early signs of the impact of global change can be observed. These signs are not limited to physical parameters like temperature, precipitation, etc. but could include changes in the biosphere and in social behavior. The book is a collection of papers presented at the meeting 'Global Change and Protected Areas' held in L'Aquila, Italy, in September 1998. It is divided into four sections dealing with the physical evidence for climatic and environmental changes, the impact on the biosphere and hydrology and the socio-economic implications. The last section is a case study on the Abruzzo Region which has the peculiarity among the Italian regions of having dedicated a third of its territory to natural parks. Most of the contributions have been prepared for this book and each section is opened by a general review that may also be very useful as a teaching tool. The book will be useful for both the researcher and the student. This rather interdisciplinary subject is totally new, with very few books in print.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xiii
Acknowledgements	xvii
SECTION 1: CLIMATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES	1	(152)
Global change and mountain regions - an IGBP initiative for collaborative research	3	(8)
A. Becker
H. Bugmann
Climate variations in Italy in the last 130 years	11	(8)
M. Brunetti
L. Buffoni
F. Mangianti
M. Maugeri
T. Nanni
Dendroclimatic information on silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) in the northern Appennines	19	(10)
M. Brunetti
D. Gambetti
G. Lo Vecchio
T. Nanni
Trends in high frequency precipitation variability in some northern Italy secular stations	29	(8)
M. Brunetti
L. Buffoni
M. Maugeri
T. Nanni
Climate change experiments on a glacier foreland in the Central Alps	37	(8)
B. Erschbamer
High mountain summits as sensitive indicators of climate change effects on vegetation patterns: the ``Multi Summit-Approach'' of GLORIA (Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments)	45	(8)
H. Pauli
M. Gottfried
K. Reiter
G. Grabherr
Temperature and precipitation trends in Italy during the last century	53	(8)
E. Piervitali
M. Colacino
Climate and other sources of change in the St. Elias region	61	(10)
D.S. Slocombe
Permafrost and climate in Europe: climate change, mountain permafrost degradation and geotechnical hazard	71	(12)
C. Harris
D. Vonder Muhll
Thermal variations of mountain permafrost: an example of measurements since 1987 in the Swiss Alps	83	(14)
D. Vonder Muhll
Climate change and air quality assessment in Canadian National Parks	97	(12)
D. Welch
Regional clean air partnerships and the ETEAM	109	(10)
E.R. Hauge
Land-Atmosphere interactions	119	(8)
R.A. Peilke
T. Chase
J. Eastman
L. Lu
G. Liston
M.B. Coughenour
D. Ojima
W.J. Parton
T.G.F. Kittel
Uncertainties in the prediction of regional climate change	127	(14)
F. Giorgi
R. Francisco
Gamma-ray spectrometer for ``in situ'' measurements on glaciers and snowfields	141	(6)
A. Balerna
E. Bernieri
M. Chiti
U. Denni
A. Esposito
A. Frani
Cs-137 Gamma peak detection in snow layers on Calderone glacier	147	(6)
A. Balerna
E. Bernieri
A. Esposito
M. Pecci
C. Smiraglia
SECTION 2: IMPACT ON THE BIOSPHERE AND HYDROLOGY	153	(204)
The Effects of global warming on mountain regions: a summary of the 1995 report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change	155	(32)
M. Beniston
Global change in respect to tendency to acidification of subarctic mountain lakes	187	(8)
V. Dauvalter
T. Moiseenko
L. Kagan
Influence of climate, species immigration, fire, and men on forest dynamics in northern Italy, from 6000 cal. BP to today	195	(14)
T. Mathis
F. Keller
A. Mohl
Lucia Wick
Heike Lischke
Koenigia Islandica (Iceland Purslane) -- A case study of a potential indicator of climate change in the UK	209	(10)
B. Meatyard
Semi-objective sampling strategies as one basis for a vegetation survey 219	219	(10)
K. Reiter
K. Hulber
G. Grabherr
Simulating the impact of climate change on drought in Swiss forest stands	229	(16)
B. Zierl
Forecasted stability of Mediterranean evergreen species considering global change	245	(8)
L. Gratani
A. Bombelli
Birds as bio-indicators of long-transported lead in the alpine environment	253	(8)
M. Janiga
Annual estimations of ecophysiological parameters and biogenic volatile compounds (BVOCs) emissions in Citrus Sinesis (L.) Osbeck	261	(10)
F. Manes
E. Donato
V. Silli
M. Vitale
A multiscale study to analyse the response of vegetation to climatic conditions	271	(10)
F. Manes
C. Blasi
S. Anselmi
M. Giannini
Phytotoxic ozone effect on selected plant species in a standardized experimental design	281	(8)
F. Manes
F. Capogna
M.A. Giannini
V. Silli
Plant invasions in central european middle-mountains: a result of global change?	289	(12)
L. Soukupova
Can testate amoebae (Protozoa) and other micro-organisms help to overcome biogeographic bias in large scale global change research?	301	(10)
E.A.D. Mitchell
D. Gilbert
A. Butler
Ph. Grosvernier
C. Albinsson
H. Rydin
M.M.P.D. Heijmans
M.R. Hoosbeek
A. Greenup
J. Foot
T. Saarinen
H. Vasander
J.M. Gobat
Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 and mineral nitrogen deposition on litter quality, bioleaching and decomposition in a Sphagnum Peat Bog	311	(12)
A. Siegenthaler
E. van der Heijden
E.A.D. Mitchell
A. Buttler
Ph. Grosvernier
J.M. Gobat
Analysis of the environmental impact caused by introduced animals in the Clarion Island, Archipelago of Revillagigedo, Colima, Mexico	323	(8)
P. Mendez-Guardado
High mountain environment as indicator of global change	331	(16)
G. Grabherr
M. Gottfried
H. Pauli
Effects of elevated CO2 and nitrogen deposition on natural regeneration processes of cut-over ombrotrophic peat bogs in the Swiss Jura mountains	347	(10)
Ph. Grosvernier
E.A.D. Mitchell
A. Buttler
J.M. Gobat
SECTION 3: SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS	357	(66)
Economic evaluation of Italian parks and natural areas	359	(14)
S. Notaro
G. Signorello
Environmental and human impact on coastal and marine protected areas in India	373	(20)
R. Krishnamoorthy
J. Devasenapathy
M. Thanikachalam
S. Ramachandran
Past climate change and the generation and persistence of species richness in a biodiversity hotspot, the Cape Flora of South Africa	393	(10)
G. Midgley
R. Roberts
The world network of biosphere reserves: a flexible structure for understanding and responding to global change	403	(10)
M Price
The role of a global protected areas system in conserving biodiversity in the face of climate change	413	(10)
L. Hannah
SECTION 4: THE ABRUZZI PARKS: A CASE STUDY	423	(2)
The strong reduction phase of the Calderone glacier during the last two centuries: reconstruction of the variation and of the possible scenarios with GIS technologies	425	(10)
L. D'Alessandro
M. D'Orefice
M. Pecci
C. Smiraglia
R. Ventura
Digital geomorphologic cartography of the top area of the Gran Sasso d'Italia mountain group (Central Appenine, Italy)	435	(10)
L. D'Alessandro
M. D'Orefice
M. Pecci
R. Ventura
The late pleistocene and holocene temporary lakes in the Abruzzo parks and the Central Appennines	445	(4)
C. Giraudi
The travertine deposits of the upper Pescara valley (Central Abruzzi, Italy): a clue for the reconstruction of the late Quaternary Palaeoenvironmental evolution of the area	459	(6)
M. Lombardo
G. Calderoni
L. D'Alessandro
E. Miccadei
The protected areas system for the conservation and for an eco-compatible development of the territory: The Maiella National Park	465	(10)
G. Cavuta
Environmental protection an social protection: The Sirente-Velino Regional Park	475	(14)
M. Fuschi
Protected areas management: an example of application in the Gran Sasso Park	489	(6)
L. Gratani
M.F. Crescente
A. Rossi
A.R. Frattaroli
The main invasive alien plants in the protected areas in central Italy (Abruzzo)	495	(10)
L. Pace
F. Tammaro
The historical and iconographic research in the reconstruction of the variation of the Calderone glacier: state of the art and perspective	505	(8)
M. Pecci
Numerical experiments to study the possible meteorological changes induced by the presence of a lake	513
Barbara Tomassetti
Guido Visconti
Tiziana Paolucci
Rossella Ferretti
Marco Verdecchia