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    Eastern Alpine Guide: Natural History and Conservation of Mountain Tundra East of the Rockies
    Eastern Alpine Guide: Natural History and Conservation of Mountain Tundra East of the Rockies
    Eastern Alpine Guide: Natural History and Conservation of Mountain Tundra East of the Rockies
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    Eastern Alpine Guide: Natural History and Conservation of Mountain Tundra East of the Rockies

    By Mike Jones

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    This unique book celebrates and documents the incredible and colorful biodiversity of the mountain landscapes of eastern North America, covering all of the major alpine ecosystems in New England, New York, Québec, Newfoundland, and Labrador. Twenty scientists, explorers, naturalists, and land managers from the United States and Canada have collaborated to create this definitive and beautiful account of the flora and fauna of the eastern alpine tundra.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity Press of New England
    Release dateApr 10, 2018
    ISBN9781512603033
    Eastern Alpine Guide: Natural History and Conservation of Mountain Tundra East of the Rockies

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      Eastern Alpine Guide - Mike Jones

      18.

      Alpine tableland, Bay of Islands region, Newfoundland. (CE)

      Map 1-1. Alpine mountain ranges of eastern North America.

      1. Introduction

      1-1 Eastern alpine tundra provides habitat for many disjunct, subarctic species. Monts Groulx, Québec. (MJ)

      This book focuses on the mountains of northeastern North America, encompassing the ancient and weatherworn summits and plateaus of the Canadian Shield and the Northern Appalachian Mountains (see Ch. 2). We’ve further narrowed our focus to those peaks, plateaus, ranges, and ridges that for various reasons break through the natural treeline to rise above the surrounding boreal or temperate forest, providing southern refugia for rare, relictual, isolated populations of subarctic and arctic plants and animals (1-1).¹ We follow the current convention of calling these treeless ecosystems alpine tundra, mostly for the simple reason that we’d like to avoid semantics in favor of a more substantive discussion.² However, there is great variety of habitat types among the various eastern alpine areas, so in the main bulk of this book, Chapters 7–21, we focus on both the uniqueness and similarities of twelve major, representative, eastern mountain ranges and thirty or so smaller or outlying alpine areas (or areas peripheral to our purpose here). The alpine mountains are topographically complex, covering a wide range of slopes and aspects. This provides critical refugia for boreal and subarctic species—important in the context of threatening climate scenarios, and simply as part of a well thought-out plan for the conservation of mountain biodiversity.

      1-2 The Colorado Rockies support more alpine tundra than the entire eastern United States combined. Mummy Range, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. (MJ)

      In North America, most of the alpine territory occurs in the West. In Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Wyoming, California, Nevada, and Colorado, the total area of alpine habitats is really shocking, especially to someone raised on summits in southern Québec, New England, or New York. This is to say nothing of the alpine expanses in Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, and Alberta. Consider this fact: In Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park, let alone all of the Colorado Rockies, there is more than ten times the total area of alpine tundra as on all of the northeastern U.S. peaks combined (1-2). The view west on a clear day from the Rocky Mountain Front Range is sea of Katahdins and Gros Mornes. Many lifetimes will yet be spent exploring the sprawling, treeless wilds of the Sierra Nevada, the Cascades, and the Rockies, and the other dazzling, western alpine ranges, including the sky islands of Arizona and New Mexico. There is even alpine tundra in Mexico, on Pico de Orizaba, Popocatépetl, and other massive stratovolcanoes within a day’s drive of Mexico

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