Recent observation of a proliferation of Ranunculus trichophyllus Chaix. in high-altitude lakes of the Mount Everest region: Comment

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 340-341

  Seimon, Anton ^a   Halloy, Stephan R P ^b   Seimon, Tracie A ^c  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^b WWF Bolivia ^*  (Bolivia)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS TRICHOPHYLLUS;

EID: 34249946349     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1523-0430(2007)39[340:ROOAPO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Note

References (20)

1. Bradley, R. S., Vuille, M., Diaz, H. F., and Vergara, W., 2006: Threats to water supplies in the tropical Andes. Science, 312: 1755-1756.
2. Cabrol, N. A., Grin, E. A., Hock, A., Kiss, A., Borics, G., Kiss, K., Acs, E., Kovacs, G., Chong, G., Demergasso, C., Sivila, R., Ortega Casamayor, E., Zambrana, J., Liberman, M., Sunagua Coro, M., Escudero, L., Tambley, C., Gaete, V., Morris, R. L., Grigsby, B., Fitzpatrick, R., and Hovde, G., 2004: Investigating the impact of UV radiation on high-altitude shallow lake habitats, life diversity, and life survival strategies: clues for Mars' past habitability potential? Abstract from 35th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, League City, Texas (http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2004/pdf/1049.pdf).
3. Catalano, L. R., 1926: Contribución al conocimiento de los fenómenos geofísicos atmosféricos (en base a observaciones efectuadas en la puna de Atacama). Publicación de la Dirección General de Minas; Geologia e Hidrología, 24: 78 pp. + 42 figs.
4. Gottfried, M., Pauli, H., Reiter, K., and Grabherr, G., 2002: Potential effects of climate change on alpine and nival plants in the Alps. In Körner, C., and Spehn, E. M. (eds.), Mountain Biodiversity: a Global Assessment. Boca Raton, London: Parthenon Publishing, 213-223.
5. Halloy, S. R. P., 1981: La presión de anhidrido carbónico como limitante altitudinal de las plantas. Lilloa, 35: 159-167.
6. Halloy, S. R. P., 1983: El límite superior de aridez, límite de vegetación y el problema de los lagos, nevés y glaciares activos en el "Núcleo Arido" de la Cordillera Andina. Actas lera Reunión Grupo Periglacial Argentino, Mendoza. Anales 83, IANIGLA, 5: 91-108.
7. Halloy, S. R. P., 1989: Altitudinal limits of life in subtropical mountains: what do we know? Pacific Science, 43: 170-184.
8. Halloy, S. R. P., Seimon, A., Yager, K., and Tupayachi Herrera, A., 2005: Multidimensional (climate, biodiversity, socio-economics, agriculture) context of changes in land use in the Vilcanota watershed, Peru. In Spehn, E. M., Liberman Cruz, M., and Körner, C. (eds.), Land Use Changes and Mountain Biodiversity, 2005. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 323-337.
9. Hutchinson, G. E., 1937: Limnological studies in Indian Tibet. International Review of Hydrobiology, 35: 134-177.
10. Körner, C., 1999: Alpine Plant Life - Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems. Berlin: Springer, 338 pp.
11. Körner, C., 2000: The alpine life zone under global change - El cambio global y los ecosistemas de alta montaña. Gayana, 57: 1-17.
12. Krajick, K., and Peter, C., 2006: Living the high life - The mountaintop environment of the Andes harbors a Noah's ark of previously undocumented species. Natural History, 115(7): 44-50.
13. Kühn, F., and Rohmeder, G., 1943: Estudio Fisiográfico de las Sierras de Tucumán. Monografías del Instituto de Estudios Geográficos de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, 3, Tucumán.
14. Lacoul, P., and Freedman, B., 2006: Recent observation of a proliferation of Ranunculus trichophyllus Chaix. in high-altitude lakes of the Mount Everest region. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 38: 394-398.
15. Löffler, H., 1968: Tropical high-mountain lakes. Their distribution, ecology and zoogeographic importance. In Troll, C. (ed.), Geo-Ecology of the Mountainous Regions of the Tropical Americas. Bonn: Colloquium Geographicum, 57-76.
16. Nucíforo, E., 1959: Ojos del Salado, Andes Catamarqueñ os. Buenos Aires, 63 + 30 láminas.
17. Parmesan, C., and Yohe, G., 2003: A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems. Nature, 421: 37-42.
18. Pauli, H., Gottfried, M., and Grabherr, G., 2001: High summits of the Alps in a changing climate - The oldest observation series on high mountain plant diversity in Europe. In Walther, G. R., Burga, C. A., and Edwards, P. J. (eds.), "Fingerprints" of Climate Change. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 139-149.
19. Seimon, T. A., Seimon, A., Daszak, P., Halloy, S. R. P., Schloegel, M., Aguilar, C. A., Sowell, P., Hyatt, A. D., Konecky, B., and Simmons, J. E., 2007: Upward range extension of Andean anurans and chytridiomycosis to extreme elevations in response to tropical deglaciation. Global Change Biology, 13: 288-299.
20. Troll, C., 1972: The upper limit of aridity and the arid core of High Asia. In Troll, C. (ed.), Geoecology of the High Mountain Regions of Eurasia. Mainz: Erdwissenschafltiche Forschung, 237-243.