Published documents

Ahnert F (1998) Introduction to geomorphology. Arnold, London

Beck E, Mägdefrau K, Senser M (1986) Globular mosses. Flora 178:73-83

Benedict JB (1970) Downslope soil movement in a Colorado alpine region: rates, processes, and climatic significance. Arct Alp Res 2:165-226

Bliss LC (1963) Alpine plant communities of the Presidential Range, New Hampshire. Ecology 44:678-697

Bliss LC, Mark AF (1974) High alpine environments and primary production on the Rock and Pillar Range, Central Otago, New Zealand. NZ J Bot 12:445-483

Bliss LC (1985) Alpine. In: Chabot BF, Mooney HA (eds) Physiological ecology of North American plant communities. Chapman and Hall, New York, pp 41-65

Butler DR (1979) Snow avalanche path terrain and vegetation, Glacier National Park, Montana. Arct Alp Res 11:17-32

Coe MJ (1967) The ecology of the alpine zone of Mount Kenya. Junk, The Hague

Curtin CG (1994) The gothic earthflow revisited: a chronosequence examination of colonization on a sub-alpine earthflow. Vegetatio 111:137-147

Douglas GW, Ballard TM (1971) Effects of fire on alpine plant communities in the North Cascades, Washington. Ecology 52:1058-1064

Flaccus E (1959) Revegetation of landslides in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Ecology 40:692-703

Fox JF (1981) Intermediate levels of soil disturbance maximize alpine plant diversity. Nature 293:564-565

Johnson PL, Billings WD (1962) The alpine vegetation of the Beartooth Plateau in relation to cryopedogenic processes and patterns. Ecological Monographs 32:102-135

Kimura W (1991) Revegetation process on a subalpine mudflow. Ecological Research 6:63-77

Kirkpatrick JB, Dickinson KJM (1984) The impact of fire on Tasmanian alpine vegetation and soils. Aust J Bot 32:613-629

Kirkpatrick JB, Bridle KL, Wild AS (2002) Succession after fire in alpine vegetation on Mount Wellington, Tasmania. Aust J Bot 50:145-154

Komárková V (1993) Vegetation type hierarchies and landform disturbance in arctic Alaska and alpine Colorado with emphasis on snowpatches. Vegetatio 106:155-181

Körner C (2003) Alpine Plant Life: Functional plant ecology of high mountain ecosystems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

Kunz P (1997) Swiss National Research Programme 31 (NRP 31): "Climate Change and Natural Disasters". Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 90:371-374

Lægaard S (1992) Influence of fire in the grass páramo vegetation of Ecuador. In: Balslev H and Luteyn JL, editors. Páramo - An Andean Ecosystem under Human Influence. London: Academic Press. p 151-170

Lawler DM (1988) Environmental limits of needle ice: a global survey. Arct Alp Res 20:137-159

Mani MS (1968) Ecology and Biogeography of High Altitude Insects. W. Junk, The Hague

Mark AF, Dickinson KJM (1997) New Zealand alpine ecosystems. In: Wielgolaski FE (ed) Polar and alpine tundra. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 311-345

Matthews JA (1999) Disturbance regimes and ecosystem response on recently-deglaciated substrates. In: Walker LR (ed) Ecosystems of disturbed ground. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 17-37

Meyer E (1993) The impact of summer tourism and winter tourism on the fauna of alpine soils in Western Austria (Oetztal Alps, Ratikon). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 100:519-527

Pickett STA, White PS (eds) (1985) The ecology of natural disturbance and patch dynamics. Academic, New York

Schneebeli M, Laternser M, Amman W (1997) Destructive snow avalanches and climate change in the Swiss Alps. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 90:457-461

Schröter C. 1926. Das Pflanzenleben der Alpen. Zürich

Smith AP, Young TP (1987) Tropical alpine plant ecology. Ann Rev Ecol Syst 18:137-158

Somme L (1997) Adaptations to the alpine ecvironment in insects and other terrestrial arthropods. In: Wielgolaski FE (ed) Polar and alpine tundra. Elsevier, Amsterdam, p 11-25

Suffling R (1993) Induction of vertical zones in sub-alpine valley forrests by avalanche-formed fuel breaks. Landscape Ecol 8:127-138

Whinam J, Chilcott N (1999) Impacts of trampling on alpine environments in central Tasmania. Journal of Environmental Management 57:205-220

White PS, Pickett STA (1985) Natural disturbance and patch dynamics, an introduction. In: Pickett STA, White PS (eds) The ecology of natural disturbance and patch dynamics. Academic, New York, pp 3-13

Zwinger AH, Willard BE (1996) Land above the trees: a guide to American alpine tundra. Johnson Books, Boulder