Contents
Part I Current Challenges of High Mountain Conservation
1 The High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World . . . . . . . . .
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Jordi Catalan, Josep M. Ninot and M. Mercè Aniz
2 Trade-offs in High Mountain Conservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Francisco Lloret
Part II Developing a Historical Perspective of the High Mountain
Social-Ecological System
3 Molecular Biogeography of the High Mountain Systems
of Europe: An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Thomas Schmitt
4 The Beginning of High Mountain Occupations in the Pyrenees.
Human Settlements and Mobility from 18,000 cal BC
to 2000 cal BC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Ermengol Gassiot Ballbè, Niccolò Mazzucco, Ignacio Clemente
Conte, David Rodríguez Antón, Laura Obea Gómez,
Manuel Quesada Carrasco and Sara Díaz Bonilla
5 The Role of Environmental Geohistory in High-Mountain
Landscape Conservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Albert Pèlachs, Ramon Pérez-Obiol, Joan Manuel Soriano,
Raquel Cunill, Marie-Claude Bal and Juan Carlos García-Codron
6 The Multiple Factors Explaining Decline in Mountain Forests:
Historical Logging and Warming-Related Drought Stress
is Causing Silver-Fir Dieback in the Aragón Pyrenees . . . . . . . . . . . 131
J. Julio Camarero
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