High alpine ponds shift upwards as average temperatures increase: A case study of the Ortles-Cevedale mountain group (Southern Alps, Italy) over the last 50 years

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 120, Issue , 2014, Pages 81-91

  Salerno, Franco ^a,b   Gambelli, Sara ^a   Viviano, Gaetano ^a   Thakuri, Sudeep ^a,b,c   Guyennon, Nicolas ^a   D'Agata, Carlo ^c   Diolaiuti, Guglielmina ^b,c   Smiraglia, Claudio ^b,c   Stefani, Fabrizio ^a   Bocchiola, Daniele ^b,d   Tartari, Gianni ^a,b  

^a WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alps; Climate impacts; Climatic change; Lake surface areas; Limnology

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAKES; LIMNOLOGY; PONDS; REMOTE SENSING;

ALPS; CLIMATE IMPACTS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; EARLY INDICATORS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; EVAPORATION/PRECIPITATION; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE AREA REDUCTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; MOUNTAIN; POND; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE AREA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

BOLZANO; ITALY; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS; STELVIO NATIONAL PARK; TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE;

EID: 84903518537     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.06.003     Document Type: Article

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