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Zemp M, Frey H, Gärtner-Roer I, Nussbaumer SU, Hoelzle M, Paul F, Haeberli W, Denzinger F,
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
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adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate
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fishless high-mountain lakes? In: Catalan J, Ninot JM, Aniz MM (eds) Challenges for high
mountain conservation in a changing world. Springer, pp 181–205
Wake DB, Vredenburg VT (2008) Are we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? A view from
the world of amphibians. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105:11466–11473
Walsh K (2014) The archaeology of Mediterranean landscapes. Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge
Wania F, Westgate JN (2008) On the mechanism of mountain cold-trapping of organic chemicals.
Environ Sci Technol 42:9092–9098
Weber J, Halsall CJ, Muir D, Teixeira C, Small J, Solomon K, Hermanson M, Hung H,
Bidleman T (2010) Endosulfan, a global pesticide: a review of its fate in the environment and
occurrence in the Arctic. Sci Total Environ 408:2966–2984
WGMS (2015) Global glacier change bulletin no. 1 (2012–2013). Publication based on database
version: doi:10.5904/wgms-fog-2015-11. Zurich, Switzerland
Wickham J, Wood PB, Nicholson MC, Jenkins W, Druckenbrod D, Suter GW, Strager MP,
Mazzarella C, Galloway W, Amos J (2013) The overlooked terrestrial impacts of mountaintop
mining. Bioscience 63:335–348
Wiegand T, Camarero JJ, Ruger N, Gutierrez E (2006) Abrupt population changes in treeline
ecotones along smooth gradients. J Ecol 94:880–892
Wilson RJ, Gutierrez D, Gutierrez J, Martinez D, Agudo R, Monserrat VJ (2005) Changes to the
elevational limits and extent of species ranges associated with climate change. Ecol Lett
8:1138–1146
Wittig VE, Ainsworth EA, Naidu SL, Karnosky DF, Long SP (2009) Quantifying the impact of
current and future tropospheric ozone on tree biomass, growth, physiology and biochemistry: a
quantitative meta-analysis. Glob Change Biol 15:396–424
Xu JC, Grumbine RE, Shrestha A, Eriksson M, Yang XF, Wang Y, Wilkes A (2009) The melting
Himalayas: cascading effects of climate change on water, biodiversity, and livelihoods.
Conserv Biol 23:520–530
Zamora R, Pérez-Luque AJ, Bonet FJ (2017) Monitoring global change in high mountains. In:
Catalan J, Ninot JM, Aniz MM (eds) Challenges for high mountain conservation in a changing
world. Springer, pp 385–413
Zemp M, Frey H, Gärtner-Roer I, Nussbaumer SU, Hoelzle M, Paul F, Haeberli W, Denzinger F,
Ahlstrøm AP, Anderson B, Bajracharya S, Baroni C, Braun LN, Cáceres BE, Casassa G,
Cobos G, Dávila LR, Delgado Granados H, Demuth MN, Espizua L, Fischer A, Fujita K,
Gadek B, Ghazanfar A, Hagen JO, Holmlund P, Karimi N, Li Z, Pelto M, Pitte P,
Popovnin VV, Portocarrero CA, Prinz R, Sangewar CV, Severskiy I, Sigurðsson O, Soruco A,
Usubaliev R, Vincent C (2015) Historically unprecedented global glacier decline in the early
21st century. J Glaciol 61:745–762
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing,
adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate
credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and
indicate if changes were made.
The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter’s Creative
Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not
included in the chapter’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by
statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from
the copyright holder.
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