| List of Contributors |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Foreword |
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| Biography of Editors |
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| Glossary |
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| About the Companion Website |
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1 Mountains, Climate and Biodiversity: An Introduction |
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| Part I Mountains, Relief and Climate |
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2 Simple Concepts Underlying the Structure, Support and Growth of Mountain Ranges, High Plateaus and Other High Terrain |
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3 An Overview of Dynamic Topography: The Influence of Mantle Circulation on Surface Topography and Landscape |
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37 | (14) |
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Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni |
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4 Mountain Relief, Climate and Surface Processes |
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51 | (18) |
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5 Dating Mountain Building: Exhumation and Surface Uplift |
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6 Stable Isotope Paleoaltimetry: Paleotopography as a Key Element in the Evolution of Landscapes and Life |
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7 Phytopaleoaltimetry: Using Plant Fossils to Measure Past Land Surface Elevation |
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8 Cenozoic Mountain Building and Climate Evolution |
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111 | (12) |
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123 | (12) |
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| Part II When Biology Meets Mountain Building |
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10 Mountain Geodiversity: Characteristics, Values and Climate Change |
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137 | (18) |
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11 Geodiversity Mapping in Alpine Areas |
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155 | (16) |
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Johannes G.B. Oostermojer |
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12 Historical Connectivity and Mountain Biodiversity |
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171 | (16) |
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13 The Environmental Heterogeneity of Mountains at a Fine Scale in a Changing World |
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187 | (14) |
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14 Mountains, Climate and Mammals |
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15 Inferring Macroevolutionary Dynamics in Mountain Systems from Fossils |
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217 | (14) |
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16 The Interplay between Geological History and Ecology in Mountains |
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231 | (14) |
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17 Mountains and the Diversity of Birds |
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245 | (12) |
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18 Teasing Apart Mountain Uplift, Climate Change and Biotic Drivers of Species Diversification |
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257 | (16) |
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19 Upland and Lowland Fishes: A Test of the River Capture Hypothesis |
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20 Different Ways of Defining Diversity, and How to Apply Them in Montane Systems |
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295 | (14) |
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21 A Modeling Framework to Estimate and Project Species Distributions in Space and Time |
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309 | (12) |
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| Part III Mountains and Biota of the World |
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22 Evolution of the Isthmus of Panama: Biological, Paleoceanographic and Paleoclimatological Implications |
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323 | (16) |
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23 The Tepuis of the Guiana Highlands |
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339 | (16) |
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24 Ice-Bound Antarctica: Biotic Consequences of the Shift from a Temperate to a Polar Climate |
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355 | (20) |
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25 The Biogeography, Origin and Characteristics of the Vascular Plant Flora and Vegetation of the New Zealand Mountains |
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375 | (16) |
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26 The East African Rift System: Tectonics, Climate and Biodiversity |
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391 | (22) |
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27 The Alps: A Geological, Climatic and Human Perspective on Vegetation History and Modern Plant Diversity |
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413 | (16) |
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Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu |
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28 Cenozoic Evolution of Geobiodiversity in the Tibeto-Himalayan Region |
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Alexandra N. Muellner-Riehl |
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29 Neogene Paleoenvironmental Changes and their Role in Plant Diversity in Yunnan, South-Western China |
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449 | (10) |
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30 Influence of Mountain Formation on Floral Diversification in Japan, Based on Macrofossil Evidence |
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459 | (16) |
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31 The Complex History of Mountain Building and the Establishment of Mountain Biota in Southeast Asia and Eastern Indonesia |
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| Index |
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