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In: Beniston M (ed) Mountain environments in changing climates. Routledge, London, pp 180–203
Imbrie J, Imbrie KP (1979) Ice ages: solving the mystery.
Enslow, Short Hills, NJ, 224 pp
IPCC (2007) Climate change 2007: the physical science
basis. Contribution of working group I to the fourth
assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on
climate change (IPCC). Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, UK, 996 pp
Kalvova J, Halenka T, Bezpalcova K, Nemesova I (2003)
Ko ¨ppen climate types in observed and simulated
climates. Stud Geophys Geod 47:185–202
Ko ¨ppen W (1931) Grundriss der Klimakunde. Walter de
Gruyter, Berlin, 388 pp
Kupfer JA, Balmat J, Smith JL (2005) Shifts in the potential
distribution of Sky Island plant communities in response
to climate change. In: Gottfried J, Gebow BS, Eskew
LG, Edminster CB (comps.) Connecting mountain
islands and desert seas: biodiversity and management
of the Madrean Archipelago II. Proceedings RMRS-P36. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research
Station, Fort Collins, CO, pp 485–490
Lohmann U, Sausen R, Bengtsson L, Cubasch U, Perlwitz
J, Roeckner E (1993) The Ko ¨ppen climate classification as a diagnostic tool for general circulation
models. Climate Res 3:177–193
Mitchell JM (1977) Carbon dioxide and future climate.
Environmental Data Service, March 1977, pp 3–9
Parton WJ, Scurlock JMO, Ojima DS, Schimel DS, Hall
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1:13–22
Prentice IC, Cramer W, Harrison SP, Leemans R,
Monserud RA, Solomon AM (1992) A global biome
model based on plant physiology and dominance, soil
properties and climate. J Biogeogr 19:117–134
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shifts 1901-2100 depicted by world maps of the
Ko ¨ppen-Geiger climate classification. Meteorol Z
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Ko ¨ppen climate types in the 21st century over China.
Atmos Ocean Sci Lett 5(6):495–498
Trewartha GT (1968) An introduction to climate, 4th edn.
McGraw-Hill, New York, 408 pp
Turner MG, Gardner RH, O’Neill RV (2001) Landscape
ecology in theory and practice. Springer, New York,
401 pp
Wang M, Overland JE (2004) Detecting arctic climate
change using Ko ¨ppen climate classification. Clim
Change 67:43–62
Wu S, Zheng D, Yin Y, Lin E, Xu Y (2010) Northward-shift
of temperature zones in China’s eco-geographical study
under future climate scenario. J Geogr Sci 20
(5):643–651
Zoltai SC (1988) Ecoclimatic provinces and man-induced
climate change. Can Committee Ecol Land Classif
Newslett 17:12–16
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