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Percent Tree Cover in Mountain Regions 2002
The mountains dataset has been overlaid with a global data set on percent tree cover taken from MODIS 1-km resolution percent tree cover data, courtesy of University of Maryland... -
Mountains of the World - 2002
To provide a global context for a discussion of mountain forests, it is first necessary to define the locations and types of mountain forests, and this in turn requires a... -
Mountains of the World - 2000
To produce this map, topographical data from the GTOPO30 global digital elevation model (USGS EROS Data Center 1996) were used to generate slope and local (5km radius) elevation... -
Mountain watch: environmental change & sustainable development in mountains
UNEP-WCMC Biodiversity Series 12This report provides the first map-based overview of environmental change in mountain regions and its implications for sustainable development.... -
Ecoregions and Biomes
Ecoregions, in the simplest definition, are ecosystems of regional extent. Specifically, ecoregions represent distinct assemblages of biodiversity―all taxa, not just... -
Where will the Water go? Impacts of Accelerated Glacier Melt in the Tropical...
This issue focuses on the impacts of this reported accelerated loss of tropical glaciers to water supplies in Peru as well as broader impacts to the hydrologic cycle, future...