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Mountain regions are of special importance for global change research. Due to the strong altitudinal gradients many mountain regions provide unique opportunities to detect and analyse global change processes and phenomena. Therefore, integrated interdisciplinary collaborative research activities are suggested to be implemented globally in a well coordinated way to understand, model and predict environmental change processes in mountain regions and, where needed, make proposals towards sustainable land, water and resources management. The required research is suggested to be structured around four activities and a number of specific tasks to be briefly described in the following. Moreover, suggestions will be made for the implementation and international coordination of the research.
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Becker, A., Bugmann, H. (2001). Global Change and Mountain Regions — an IGBP Initiative for Collaborative Research. In: Visconti, G., Beniston, M., Iannorelli, E.D., Barba, D. (eds) Global Change and Protected Areas. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48051-4_1
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