chapter 1 Exploring and Explaining Mountain Biodiversity: The Role and Power of Geophysical Information Systems -- chapter 2 Primary Biodiversity Data— The Foundation for Understanding Global Mountain Biodiversity -- chapter 3 Using Primary Biodiversity Data in Mountain Species Numbers Assessments -- chapter 4 The Global Need for, and Appreciation of, High-Quality Metadata in Biodiversity Database Work -- chapter 5 A Possible Correlation between the Altitudinal and Latitudinal Ranges of Species in the High Elevation Flora of the Andes -- chapter 6 Exploring Patterns of Plant Diversity in China’s Mountains -- chapter 7 Elevational Pattern of Seed Plant Species Richness in the Hengduan Mountains, Southwest China: Area and Climate -- chapter 8 Elevational Gradients of Species Richness Derived from Local Field Surveys versus -- chapter 9 Species Richness of Breeding Birds along the Altitudinal Gradient-An Analysis of Atlas Databases from Switzerland and Catalonia (NE Spain) -- chapter 10 Diverse Elevational Diversity Gradients in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A. -- chapter 11 Integrating Data across Biodiversity Levels: The Project IntraBioDiv -- chapter 12 A Plant Functional Traits Database for the Alps—Application to the Understanding of Functional Effects of Changed Grassland Management -- chapter 13 Using Species Occurrence Databases to Determine Niche Dynamics of Montane and Lowland Species since the Last Glacial Maximum -- chapter 14 A Georeferenced Biodiversity Databank for Evaluating the Impact of Climate Change in Southern Italy Mountains -- chapter 15 Using Georeferenced Databases to Assess the Effect of Climate Change on Alpine Plant Species and Diversity -- chapter 16 The “Mountain Laboratory” of Nature—A Largely Unexplored Mine of Information: Synthesis of the Book -- chapter 17 Creative Use of Mountain Biodiversity Databases: The Kazbegi Research Agenda of GMBA-DIVERSITAS.