Messinian climate change and erosional destruction of the central European Alps

Geology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. 613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean D. Willett ◽  
Fritz Schlunegger ◽  
Vincenzo Picotti
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
European Alps ◽  
Central European

scholarly journals Messinian climate change and erosional destruction of the central European Alps: COMMENT AND REPLY: REPLY

Geology ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. e131-e131
Author(s):  
S. D. Willett ◽  
F. Schlunegger ◽  
V. Picotti
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
European Alps ◽  
Central European

scholarly journals Effects of atmospheric and climate change at the timberline of the Central European Alps

2009 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 402-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Wieser ◽  
Rainer Matyssek ◽  
Roland Luzian ◽  
Peter Zwerger ◽  
Peter Pindur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
European Alps ◽  
Central European

Vulnerability of Norway spruce to climate change in mountain forests of the European Alps

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Hartl-Meier ◽  
C Zang ◽  
C Dittmar ◽  
J Esper ◽  
A Göttlein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Norway Spruce ◽  
European Alps ◽  
Mountain Forests

scholarly journals Spatial and Annual Variation in Microbial Abundance, Community Composition, and Diversity Associated With Alpine Surface Snow

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Fillinger ◽  
Kerstin Hürkamp ◽  
Christine Stumpp ◽  
Nina Weber ◽  
Dominik Forster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Microbial Community ◽  
Community Composition ◽  
Microbial Community Composition ◽  
Alpha Diversity ◽  
Community Diversity ◽  
Taxon Richness ◽  
European Alps ◽  
Prokaryotic Cell ◽  
Surface Snow

Understanding microbial community dynamics in the alpine cryosphere is an important step toward assessing climate change impacts on these fragile ecosystems and meltwater-fed environments downstream. In this study, we analyzed microbial community composition, variation in community alpha and beta diversity, and the number of prokaryotic cells and virus-like particles (VLP) in seasonal snowpack from two consecutive years at three high altitude mountain summits along a longitudinal transect across the European Alps. Numbers of prokaryotic cells and VLP both ranged around 104 and 105 per mL of snow meltwater on average, with variation generally within one order of magnitude between sites and years. VLP-to-prokaryotic cell ratios spanned two orders of magnitude, with median values close to 1, and little variation between sites and years in the majority of cases. Estimates of microbial community alpha diversity inferred from Hill numbers revealed low contributions of common and abundant microbial taxa to the total taxon richness, and thus low community evenness. Similar to prokaryotic cell and VLP numbers, differences in alpha diversity between years and sites were generally relatively modest. In contrast, community composition displayed strong variation between sites and especially between years. Analyses of taxonomic and phylogenetic community composition showed that differences between sites within years were mainly characterized by changes in abundances of microbial taxa from similar phylogenetic clades, whereas shifts between years were due to significant phylogenetic turnover. Our findings on the spatiotemporal dynamics and magnitude of variation of microbial abundances, community diversity, and composition in surface snow may help define baseline levels to assess future impacts of climate change on the alpine cryosphere.

scholarly journals Cumulative growth and stress responses to the 2018-2019 drought in a European floodplain forest

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Schnabel ◽  
Sarah Purrucker ◽  
Lara Schmitt ◽  
Rolf A. Engelmann ◽  
Anja Kahl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Drought Stress ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Physiological Stress ◽  
Isotope Composition ◽  
Forest Tree ◽  
Floodplain Forest ◽  
Central European ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

Droughts increasingly threaten the worlds forests and their potential to mitigate climate change. In 2018-2019, Central European forests were hit by two consecutive hotter drought years, an unprecedented phenomenon that is likely to occur more frequently with climate change. Here, we examine trees growth resistance and physiological stress responses (increase in carbon isotope composition; Δδ13C) to this consecutive drought based on tree-rings of dominant tree species in a Central European floodplain forest. Tree growth was not reduced for most species in 2018, indicating that water supply in floodplain forests can partly buffer meteorological water deficits. Drought stress in 2018 was comparable to former single drought years, but the cumulative drought stress in 2019 induced drastic decreases in growth resistance and increases in Δδ13C across all species. Consecutive hotter droughts pose a novel threat to forests under climate change, even in forest ecosystems with high levels of water supply.

scholarly journals 21st century climate change in the European Alps—A review

2014 ◽  
Vol 493 ◽  
pp. 1138-1151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Gobiet ◽  
Sven Kotlarski ◽  
Martin Beniston ◽  
Georg Heinrich ◽  
Jan Rajczak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
21St Century ◽  
European Alps
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