Part III Emerging Values in Mountain Conservation
7 Towards a Microbial Conservation Perspective in High
Mountain Lakes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Emilio O. Casamayor
8 Why Should We Preserve Fishless High Mountain Lakes? . . . . . . . 181
Marc Ventura, Rocco Tiberti, Teresa Buchaca, Danilo Buñay,
Ibor Sabás and Alexandre Miró
9 Are Soil Carbon Stocks in Mountain Grasslands Compromised
by Land-Use Changes? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Jordi Garcia-Pausas, Joan Romanyà, Francesc Montané,
Ana I. Rios, Marc Taull, Pere Rovira and Pere Casals
10 The Importance of Reintroducing Large Carnivores:
The Brown Bear in the Pyrenees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Santiago Palazón
Part IV Global Change and High Mountain Conservation
11 Life-History Responses to the Altitudinal Gradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Paola Laiolo and José Ramón Obeso
12 Non-equilibrium in Alpine Plant Assemblages: Shifts
in Europe’s Summit Floras. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Christian Rixen and Sonja Wipf
13 Changes in Climate, Snow and Water Resources
in the Spanish Pyrenees: Observations and Projections
in a Warming Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Enrique Morán-Tejeda, Juan Ignacio López-Moreno
and Alba Sanmiguel-Vallelado
14 Atmospheric Chemical Loadings in the High Mountain:
Current Forcing and Legacy Pollution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Lluís Camarero
15 Importance of Long-Term Studies to Conservation Practice:
The Case of the Bearded Vulture in the Pyrenees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Antoni Margalida
16 Monitoring Global Change in High Mountains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Regino Zamora, Antonio J. Pérez-Luque and Francisco J. Bonet
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