GLOCHAMOST (Global and Climate Change in Mountain Sites - Coping Strategies for Mountain Biosphere Reserves) 

GLOCHAMOST is the follow-up initiative of UNESCO-MAB to the GLOCHAMORE Project. Its aim is to implement selected key research areas of the GLOCHAMORE Research Strategy to develop adaptation strategies for mountain biosphere reserves in the context of global and climate change. The following 5 key research areas provide a framework for research and knowledge sharing on the impacts of global/climate change on mountain biosphere reserves:  

• Climate: Climate change including the frequency of extreme events (item 3.1 of the GLOCHAMORE Research Strategy)
• Biodiversity: Key fauna and flora (item 6e of the Research Strategy)
• Water: Water quantity (item 4a of the Research Strategy)
• Land Use Change: Understanding the origins and impacts of land use (item 2b of Research Strategy)
• Mountain Economies: Employment and income (item 9a of the Research Strategy) 

See the 2011 reports:

• Canada: Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Reserve
• China: Changbaishan Biosphere Reserve
• Germany: Berchtesgadener Land Biosphere Reserve
• India: Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve
• Peru: Huascaran Biosphere Reserve
• Russian Federation: Katunskiy Biosphere Reserve
• Russian Federation: Teberdinskiy Biosphere Reserve  
• Spain: Sierra Nevada Biosphere Reserve
• Switzerland: Reservat da Biosfera Val Mustair-Parc Naziunal 

See also earlier reports finalized in 2009:

• Katunskiy BR (Russian Federation)
• Teberdinskiy BR (Russian Federation)
• Sierra Nevada BR (Spain)
• Changbaishan BR (China)
• Nanda Devi BR (India)

Contact: Thomas Schaaf. Chief, Section of Ecological Sciences and Biodiversity, Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences, UNESCO MAB Programme. t.schaaf(at)unesco.org