Rising species numbers on Europe's mountaintops may mask increasing losses of high-elevation plant specialists
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Because of global warming, some plants rise in altitude, enriching the biodiversity of alpine peaks. But not for long: up above, the local disappearance of plants has begun, according to twenty years of inventories in EuropeThe greening of the Alps is a phenomenon due to the well-demonstrated global warming in recent years, whether by monitoring the evolution of flora on the massif through satellite imagery or by regional inventories. Bushes, su…
Writing Science, 3 Sep (EFE).- The rise in temperatures caused by climate change has helped many plant species colonize European alpine landscapes and survive at high altitudes but this apparent increase in diversity hides a drama: the accelerated extinction of indigenous plants specialized in the peaks.The regions more [...] The entry Climate change is extinguishing vegetation on mountain summits was first published in HolaNews.
Now that mountain peaks in Europe are becoming increasingly green due to climate change, it seems as if biodiversity there is increasing. But it is actually decreasing...
Rising species numbers on Europe's mountaintops may mask increasing losses of high-elevation plant specialists
Decades of warming have relaxed cold-temperature constraints on mountain plant distribution and increased species numbers on mountaintops. An international research team led by scientists from the University of Vienna, together with BOKU University and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, now shows that these changes also create a rising number of losers. The disappearance of plants from summits can take decades but has accelerated over the past 20 years. Rising biodiversity is therefore only part of the story and neglects an important aspect of recent summit vegetation dynamics.
Due to climate change, more and more plant species are making their way onto European mountaintops. But what happens to the species that actually love the cold?
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