GLOBAL OBSERVATION RESEARCH INITIATIVE IN ALPINE ENVIRONMENTS

Meetings:

From 17:00 onward registration at Salutation Hotel, welcome drink at 19:00. Please provide your presentation here!

09:45 Stephan Halloy
Halloy, S., Beck, S., Grau, A., Jacome, J., Tupayachi, A., Yager, K., Aguirre, N., Carilla, J., Cuello, S., Cuesta, F., Domic, A., Farfan, J., Garcia, C., Leon, B., Meneses, R. I., Oyos, E., Salgado, S., Seimon, A., Seimon, T., Suarez, D., Young, K. & Vinas, P.

Baseline for climate change impacts on biodiversity in the Andes:

establishment and preliminary results of long-term GLORIA monitoring sites
10:05 Francisco Cuesta
Cuesta, F., Becerra, M.T., Halloy, S., Salgado, S.

GLORIA as a key element to implement an environmental monitoring system for the Andean Community
10:25 Teresa Schwarzkopf & Tatiana Ojeda Luna
Methodological insights to the GLORIA field method proposed for the highland vegetation of the Northern Andes / Paramo Ecosystem Floristic Diversity of Podocarpus National Park to Monitor Climate Change
10:45 BREAK
11:15 Stephan Beck & Rosa Isela Meneses
Beck, S., Yager, K., Meneses, R. I., Halloy, S., Domic, A. & Garcia, C.

GLORIA sites in the high Andes of Bolivia: A multi-disciplinary assessment

11:35 Colin Maher
The Wild West: GLORIA in the White Mountains and Sierra Nevada of California
11:50 Lindsey E. Bengtson
Bengtson, L., Fagre, D., Asebrook, J. & Hintz, J.

Glacier National Park GLORIA re-survey project: an evaluation of changes in alpine plant species composition and distribution due to five years of climate change in the Northern Rocky Mountains, Montana.
12:05 Martha Apple
Apple, M., Warden, J. E., Apple, C. J., & Gallagher, J. H.

Phenology and the seasonal appearance of species at the Southwestern Montana GLORIA site
12:20 LUNCH

14:00 Brigitta Erschbamer
Erschbamer, B., Mallaun, M. & Unterluggauer, P.

Short-term signals of climate change in the Dolomites (S-Alps, Italy)
14:15 George Nakhutsrishvili
Nakhutsrishvili, G., Abdaladze, O., Akhalkatsi, M. & Batsatsashvili, K.

Trends of transformation of high mountain vegetation in the Caucasus in connection with the global climate change
14:30 Per Larsson
A new Gloria-site established in Jamtland, west central Sweden
14:45 Michael Vogel
Vogel, M., Huber, D. & Franz, H.

Gloria test site embedded into climate change monitoring programmes of the Berchtesgaden National Park
15:00 Alba Gutierrez-Giron
Gutierrez-Giron, A. & Gavilan. R.

Environmental variables and functional traits relationships in Mediterranean high mountain grasslands in Central Spain
15:15 Anne Syverhuset
Results from the reanalysis of the GLORIA summits at Dovrefjell, Norway
15:30 BREAK

16:00 Observer variation and Discussion Michael Gottfried & Andreas Futschik
16:45 Observed changes SEBI Michael Gottfried & Andreas Futschik
17:30 Observed changes gain/loss Harald Pauli

09:00 Introduction Harald Pauli
09:05 Jan Salick
GLORIA in the Eastern Himalaya
09:25 Tatjana Yashina
Artemov, I. & Yashina, T.

GLORIA Network in the Altai-Sayan Ecoregion
09:40 Jalil Noroozi
GLORIA-Iran: Potential effects of climate warming on a unique high-altitude flora
09:55 Ho-Yih Liu
Liu, Ho-Yih, Hsieh, Ling-Chun

Subtropical alpine vegetation structure in the Central Mountain Range, Taiwan
10:10 BREAK

10:40
- A: Data analysis – planning regional and continental scale comparison
  Organised by Michael Gottfried
- B: Ethno botany - Traditional Knowledge and Climate Change
  Organised by Jan Salick
12:30 LUNCH

14:00 Catherine Pickering
Pickering, C., Green, K. & Venn, S.

Relationship between topography, soils and micro-climate and the current composition of vegetation and functional traits among five GLORIA summits in the Snowy Mountains, Australia
14:15 Katharine Dickinson
14:30 Abdeltif El Quahrani
El Quahrani, A. & Merzouki, A.

GLORIA site in Moroccan Atlas

14:45 Anna Maria Fosaa
Fosaa, A. M., Nagy, L.

A GLORIA site in the Faroe Islands
15:00 Rosario G. Gavilán
Gavilan, R. G., Gutiérrez Girón, A.

GLORIA activities in central Spain (ES-SIC): how far are we going?
15:15 BREAK

09:00 Introduction Georg Grabherr
09:10 Yuri Mikhailov
Invertebrates as additional indicators for monitoring at target regions in the Urals
09:25 Dirk Hofmann & Karina Yager
Identification and incorporation of socio-economic and cultural aspects of site implementation and monitoring
09:40 Jarle I. Holten
Holten, J. I. & Wehn, S.

A new approach; the Mountain Slope Approach!
09:55 Christian Rixen
Increasing plant biodiversity on mountain tops at the upper limit of dwarf shrub heath
10:10 Juan José Jimenez
Jimenez, J. J., Villar, L.

Soil data (C, N, P, and ph) in Monte Perdido massif (CPY, Spain) and their relation with abiotic and biotic factors (a GLORIA optional activity)
10:25 BREAK

11:00 Collateral data: Organised by Harald Pauli
vertical range of species, species distribution / endemism; potential treelines (thematic and/or regional working groups)

12:00 Upcoming data analyses (workshop report)
12:30 LUNCH
14:00 Data property, data sharing and authorship issues Michael Gottfried
14:30 Discussion on Data property, data sharing and authorship issues Michael Gottfried

Excursion day (joint day with the Conference on Global Change in the World's Mountains): several options including a visit of the Cairngorms GLORIA sites.
Evening: Conference Dinner