Geography 820 Mountain Environments
Student presentations & calendar
Case study presentation -- peer evaluation form
Presentations:
03/27: Mark - Introduction
03/28: Mark-Mountains: Properties & Forms
04/04: Mark-Mountain Geography
Case studies:
Kilimanjaro 2006: glacier refuge & biodiversity hot spot (pictures including sketch of Aerotegmina, detailed in paper below)
Claudia Hemp (2001) "Aerotegmina, a new genus of African Listroscelidinae" Journal of Othoptera Research 10(1), 121-128.
"Great Basin National Park: a mountain environment worth a closer look..."
Papers
03/28: Reflections on mountain geography
2003 Funnell and Price: Mountain Geography-a review. The Geographical Journal 169(3), 183-190.
2000 Smethurst: Mountain Geography. Geographical Review 90(1), 35-56.
1973 Hollermann: Some reflections on the nature of High Mountains, with special reference to the Western US. Arctic and Alpine Research 5(3), A149-A160.
1907 Names of Topographic Features in the United States. Bulletin of the American Geographical Society 39(2), 103-106.
Historical feature: Early 20th century geographic explorations of the Central Andes
1860-1861 Markham: Sources of the River Purus. Proc. of the Royal Geographical Society 5(5), 224-225.
1914 Bowman: Results of an expedition to the Central Andes. Bulletin of the American Geographical Society 46(3), 161-183.
1929 Troll: An expedition to the Central Andes 1926-1928. Geographical Review 19(2), 234-247.
Readings for 04/11: (** = Priority) NOTE on what to read!
**Marshall, DJ (1996) "Origin of the inland Acari of continental Antarctica, with particular reference to Dronning Maud Land" Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 118: 101-118.
**Davis, AJ, JH Lawton, B Sharrocks, and LS Jenkinson (1998) "Individualistic species responses invalidate simple physiological models of community dynamics under global climate change" The Journal of Animal Ecology, 67 (4): 600-612.
**Hodkinson, ID (1999) "Species response to global environmental change or Why ecophysiological models are important: a reply to Davis et al." The Journal of Animal Ecology, 68 (6): 1259-1262.
Vannier, P, and G Vannier (2002) "Evolution of freezing susceptibility and freezing tolerance in terrestrial arthropods" C.R. Biologies, 325: 1185-1190.
Block, W, JG Baust, F Franks, IA Johnston, and J Bale (1990) "Cold tolerance of Insects and other arthropods (and discusion)" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (B), 326(1237): 613-633.
**Bruhl, CA (1997) "Flightless insects: a test case for historical relationships of African mountains" Journal of Biogeography, 24(2): 233-250.
Readings for 04/18
Viviroli, D, R Weingartner and B Messerli (2003) "Asessing the hydrological significance of the world's mountains" Mountain Research and Development 23(1):32-40.
Grosjean, M and H Veit (2005) "Water resources in the arid mountains of the Atacama Desert (Northern Chile): past climate changes and modern conflicts" in Huber et al. (ed) GLOCHAMORE, 93-104.
Schreier, H (2005) "Challenges in mountain watershed management" in Huber et al. (ed) GLOCHAMORE, 617-625.
Readings for 04/25 (focus on first 3; Beall is a "bonus")
Altshuler, DL and R Dudley (2003) "Kinematics of hovering hummingbird flight along simulated and natural elevational gradients" Journal of Experimental Biology 206, 3139-3147.
Fjeldsa, J and C Rahbek (2006) "Diversification of tanagers, a species rich bird group, from lowlands to montane regions of South America" Integrative and Comparative Biology 46(1), 72-81.
Ghalambor, CK, RB Huey, PR Martin, JJ Tewksbury and G Wang (2006) "Are mountain passes higher in the tropics? Janzen's hypothesis revisited" Integrative and Comparative Biology 46(1), 5-17.
Navas, CA (2006) "Patterns of distribution of anurans in high Andean tropical elevations: Insights from integrating biogeography and evolutionary biology" Integrative and Comparative Biology 46(1), 82-91.
Beall CM (2006) "Andean, Tibetan, and Ethiopian patterns of adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia" Integrative and Comparative Biology 46(1), 18-24.
Readings for 05/02
Nepal, SK (2002) "Mountain ecotourism and sustainable development" Mountain Research and Development 22(2), 104-109.
Odermatt, S (2004) "Evaluation of mountain case studies by means of sustainability variables" Mountain Research and Development 24(4), 336-341.
Draper, D (2000) "Towards sustainable mountain communities: balancing tourism development and environmental protection in Banff and Banff National Park, Canada" Ambio 29(7), 408-415.
Cole, V and Sinclair, AJ (2002) "Measuring the ecological footprint of a Himalayan tourist center" Mountain Research and Development 22(2), 132-141.
Readings for 05/09 (Update: Read IPCC 1995 report in lieu of Barry & Seimon, 2000)
Beniston, M., Diaz, H.F., Bradley, R.S. (1997) "Climatic change at high elevation site: an overview." Climatic Change 36, 233-251.
Baroni, C., Orombelli, G. (1996) "The alpine "iceman" and Holocene climate change." Quaternary Research 46, 78-83.
Krajick, K. (2004) "All downhill from here?" Science 303, 1600-1602.
IPCC (1995) Impacts of Climate Change on Mountain Regions.
Barry, R.G., Seimon, A. (2000) "Research for mountain area developement: climatic fluctuations in the mountains of the Americas and their significance." Ambio 29 (7), 362-370.
Readings for 05/16
Tranter, M, AG Fountain, GH Fritsen, WB Lyons, JC Priscu, PJ Statham and KA Welch (2004) "Extreme hydrochemical conditions in natural microcosms entombed within Antarctic ice." Hydrological Processes 18, 379-387.
Pelto MS (2006) "The current disequilibrium of North Cascades glaciers." Hydrological Processes 20, 769-779.
Head et al. (2005) "Tropical to mid-latitude snow and ice accumulation, flow and glaciation on Mars." Nature 434, 346-351.
Dyurgerov MB and Meier MF (1997) "Mass balance of mountain and subpolar glaciers: new global assessment for 1961-1990" Arctic and Alpine Research 29(4), 379-391.
Bonus: Schulze-Makuch D and LN Irwin (2006) "The prospect of life in exotic forms in other worlds" Naturwissenschaften 93, 155-172.
OTHER papers of interest:
Walther et al. (2002) "Ecological responses to recent climate change." Nature 416, 389-395.
Houston, J (2006) "The great Atacama flood of 2001 and its implications for Andean hydrology" Hydrol. Process. 20, 591–610.