Chapter 1 Guideline for Describing Soil Profiles in Mountain Ecosystems

Chapter 2 Peripheral Plant Population Survival in Polar Regions

Chapter 3 Climate Change and High Mountain Vegetation Shifts

Chapter 4 Regeneration of Whitebark Pine in the Timberline Ecotone of the Beartooth Plateau, U.S.A.: Spatial Distribution and Responsible Agents

Chapter 6 Pocket Gopher — Actor under the Stage. Studies on Niwot Ridge, Colorado Front Range, U.S.A.

Chapter 7 The Impact of Seed Dispersal by Clark’s Nutcracker on Whitebark Pine: Multi-scale Perspective on a High Mountain Mutualism

Chapter 8 Humus Forms and Reforestation of an Abandoned Pasture at the Alpine Timberline (Upper Engadine, Central Alps, Switzerland)

Chapter 9 A Discontinuous Tree-ring Record AD 320–1994 From Dividalen, Norway: Inferences on Climate and Treeline History

Chapter 10 Woodland Recolonisation and Postagricultural Development in Italy

Chapter 11 Isolated Mountain Forests in Central Asian Deserts: A Case Study from the Govi Altay, Mongolia

Chapter 12 The Upper Timberline in the Himalayas, Hindu Kush and Karakorum: a Review of Geographical and Ecological Aspects