Based on papers from a workshop held in Kongsvold, Norway, Aug. 17-20, 1993.
Contents: Patterns and causes of arctic plant community diversity / M.D. Walker -- Causes of arctic plant diversity : origin and evolution / D.F. Murray -- Patterns and causes of genetic diversity in arctic plants / J.B. McGraw -- Alpine plant diversity : a global survey and functional interpretations / Ch. Ko¨rner -- Origin and evolution of the mountain flora in Middle Asia and neighbouring mountain regions / O. Agakhanjanz and S.-W. Breckle -- Diversity of the Arctic terrestrial fauna / Yu. I. Chernov -- Animal diversity at high altitudes in the Austrian central Alps / E. Meyer and K. Thaler -- Arctic tundra biodiversity : a temporal perspective from late Quaternary pollen records / L.B. Brubaker, P.M. Anderson, and F.S. Hu -- Effects of mammals on ecosystem change at the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary / S.A. Zimov [and others] -- Palaeorecords of plant biodiversity in the Alps / B. Ammann -- Implications for changes in arctic plant biodiversity from environmental manipulation experiments / T.V. Callaghan and S. Jonasson -- Patterns and current changes in alpine plant diversity / G. Grabherr [and others] -- Anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity in the Arctic / O.R. Young and F.S. Chapin III -- Plant functional diversity and resource control of primary production in Alaskan Arctic tundras / G.R. Shaver -- Direct and indirect effects of plant species on biogeochemical processes in arctic ecosystems / S.E. Hobbie -- Causes and consequences of plant functional diversity in arctic ecosystems / F.S. Chapin III [and others] -- Ecosystem consequences of microbial diversity and community structure / J. Schimel -- Diversity of biomass and nitrogen distribution among plant species in arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems / J. Pastor -- The plant-vertebrate herbivore interface in arctic ecosystems / R.L. Jefferies and J.P. Bryant -- Insect diversity, life history, and trophic dynamics in arctic streams, with particular emphasis on black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) / A.E. Hershey, R.W. Merritt, and M.C. Miller -- Land-water interactions : the influence of terrestrial diversity on aquatic ecosystems / G.W. Kling -- Patterns, causes, changes, and consequences of biodiversity in arctic and alpine ecosystems / F.S. Chapin III and Ch. Ko¨rner.