mountain ecosystem

The importance of mountain ecosystems is a cultural heritage.

This unique landscape shelters some of the last pristine mountain ecosystems on earth.

Because of this, mountain ecosystems form life zones, which are stratified according to elevation.

As a result, the mountain ecosystems are isolated, and distinct sub-species can develop.

Mountain ecosystems are found on every continent and sustain an estimated ten-percent of the world's population.

Numerous agencies are working to conserve the snow leopard and its threatened mountain ecosystems.

All six species inhabit mountain ecosystems, and all but two are found primarily in the mountains of California.

The hike caused environmental damage to the mountain, and was finally canceled to help preserve the delicate mountain ecosystem.

This arid, mountain ecosystem supports a surprising biodiversity and a high proportion of plant endemics.

Several studies from the early 1970s through the 1990s surveyed the mountain ecosystems and inventoried the flora and fauna.

Phelsuma lineata punctulata inhabits the mountain ecosystems in northern Madagascar.

These rugged desert mountain ecosystems are home to the Desert Bighorn Sheep.

In the Central Rocky Mountains Ecosystem, most bears have died within a few hundred meters of roads and trails.

These include mountain ecosystems, coastal wetlands threatened by rising seas, Arctic tundra and sub-arctic and temperate-zone forests.

High mountain ecosystems, including páramos (unique wetlands of the Northern Andes) and snowcapped terrains are among the environments most sensitive to climate change.

The report also warns of the substantial disruption of snow-fed water supplies, the loss of coastal and mountain ecosystems and more frequent heat waves.

At the World Economic Forum in 1990, he launched Alp Action to protect the mountain ecosystem and preserve the Alps' cultural diversity and vitality.

The conservation of the contained mountain ecosystem of Southern Sinai including all its elements and processes and the conservation of the site's traditional cultural and religious values.

The insect lives in the coldest streams just downstream of the glacier or snowbank sources and is considered as an early warning indicator species of climate warming in mountain ecosystems.

"Global Biodiversity Hotspot," as a part of the Hengdu Mountain Ecosystem (Conservation International: Mittermeier and Mittermeier 1997)

Large-scale technological pressure on fragile mountain ecosystems by mining and infrastructure projects, and the agricultural sector served to disturb the balance and to accelerate of a number of natural hazards.

The plant is a member of the boggy wet mountain ecosystem in Alakai Wilderness Preserve and Na Pali Kona Forest Reserve on Kauai.

Tacaná Volcano is part of the Central American Core volcanic chain, which contains fragile ecosystems and rich biodiversity of cultural, scientific, economic and biological relevance, particularly in the high mountain ecosystem.

Mountain waters of the Czech Republic - Evaluating trends related to pollution, climate change, and alternative watershed practices in the decline and recovery of the Jizera mountain ecosystems and the services they provide.

Its nearly 400 acres of wooded land, besides giving a specific identity to the landscape of the city, houses a rich and varied biodiversity is representative of the tropical rain forest and mountain ecosystems of the high-Andean.