From white to green: Snow cover loss and increased vegetation productivity in the European Alps
University of Basel · University of Lausanne · +2 more institutions
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Abstract
Mountains are hotspots of biodiversity and ecosystem services, but they are warming about twice as fast as the global average. Climate change may reduce alpine snow cover and increase vegetation productivity, as in the Arctic. Here, we demonstrate that 77% of the European Alps above the tree line experienced greening (productivity gain) and
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- Greening
- Productivity
- Environmental science
- Tree line
- Snow
- Permafrost
- Physical geography
- Vegetation (pathology)
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