 | Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity Subjects: Built Environment; Environment and Sustainability; Ecology - Environment Studies; Landscape; Landscape Conservation Maintenance and Management; Part of the worldwide biodiversity program DIVERSITAS, the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA) assesses the biological richness of high-elevation biota. GMBA's focus includes the uppermost forest regions or their substitute rangeland vegetation, the treeline ecotone, and the alpine and nival belts. Providing more than description, the GM Eva M. Spehn Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment Institute of Botany University of Basel Basel, Switzerland Maximo Liberman Servicio Nacional de Areas Protegidas La Paz, Bolivia Christian Körner Institute of Botany University of Basel Basel, Switzerland |
