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Warmer climate, warmer European mountains—“clear…effect on mountain plant communities”
http://www.ntnu.edu/news/warmer-european-mountains[font face=Times, Serif][font size=5]Warmer climate, warmer European mountains[/font]
[font size=3](08.01.2012) The decade from 2000 to 2009 was the warmest since the initiation of worldwide climate measurements, and while localized studies have shown evidence of changes in mountain plant communities that reflect this warming trend, no study has yet taken a continental-scale view of the situation – until now.
With the publication of "Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change," as an Advance Online Publication (AOP) in Nature Climate Change on 8 January 2012, researchers from 13 countries report clear and statistically significant evidence of a continent-wide warming effect on mountain plant communities.
These results are "clearly significant," says Ottar Michelsen, a researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and one of the article's co-authors. "You can find studies that have shown an effect locally, and where researchers try to say something more globally, but in this case, when you have so many mountains in so many regions and can show an effect, that's a big thing."
60 sites, 17 mountain areas
The article describes the results of a comprehensive effort to measure plant community changes in the mountains over the whole of Europe, with nearly a decade of time between the sampling efforts.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1329[font size=3](08.01.2012) The decade from 2000 to 2009 was the warmest since the initiation of worldwide climate measurements, and while localized studies have shown evidence of changes in mountain plant communities that reflect this warming trend, no study has yet taken a continental-scale view of the situation – until now.
With the publication of "Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change," as an Advance Online Publication (AOP) in Nature Climate Change on 8 January 2012, researchers from 13 countries report clear and statistically significant evidence of a continent-wide warming effect on mountain plant communities.
These results are "clearly significant," says Ottar Michelsen, a researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and one of the article's co-authors. "You can find studies that have shown an effect locally, and where researchers try to say something more globally, but in this case, when you have so many mountains in so many regions and can show an effect, that's a big thing."
60 sites, 17 mountain areas
The article describes the results of a comprehensive effort to measure plant community changes in the mountains over the whole of Europe, with nearly a decade of time between the sampling efforts.
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