Biomonitoring: General and Applied Aspects on Regional and Global Scales: Tasks for Vegetation Science, cartea 35

A General aspects of biomonitoring.- Biomonitoring — Tasks and limits.- Statistical design and analysis in long-term vegetation monitoring.- Administration levels and tasks of nature conservation efficiency control.- B Examples of applied biomonitoring in Germany and Switzerland.- Monitoring recent vegetation changes in nutrient-rich beechwoods in central Germany.- Biomonitoring — Evaluation and assessment of heavy metal concentrations from two German moss monitoring surveys.- Do phytophenological series contribute to vegetation monitoring?.- Species responses to climatic variation and land-use change in grasslands of southern Switzerland.- Little flowers in a mild winter.- Vegetation monitoring on a small-scale restoration site in the alpine belt: Pilatus Kulm, Switzerland.- C Aspects of global change in the Alps and in the high arctic region.- Long-term monitoring of mountain peaks in the Alps.- Monitoring of Eastern and Southern Swiss Alpine timberline ecotones.- Observed changes in vegetation in relation to climate warming.- Laurophyllisation — A sign of a changing climate?.- Changes of plant community patterns, phytomass and carbon balance in a high arctic tundra ecosystem under a climate of increasing cloudiness.