Integrating scales and LTER methods to better understand the overall dynamics of a mountain protected space: the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park

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Artículo publicado en Open Access bajo los términos de Creative Commons attribution Non Comercial License 3.0. MONOGRÁFICO: La investigación y seguimiento ecológico a largo plazo (LTER) ecosistemas REVISTA CIENTÍFICA DE ECOLOGÍA Y MEDIO AMBIENTE

The Late-Glacial and Holocene Marboré Lake sequence (2612 m a.s.l., Central Pyrenees, Spain): Testing high altitude sites sensitivity to millennial scale vegetation and climate variability

“…Recent studies have detected a gradual transformation of mid-latitude high mountain plant communities due to the ongoing climate change in several mountain ranges, including the Pyrenees (Gottfried et al, 2012;. This gradual transformation encompasses both substitutions of cold-adapted plant communities by more thermophilous ones (Gottfried et al, 2012) and treeline altitudinal shifts (Camarero and Gutiérrez, 2004;García-Ruiz et al, 2015;García et al, 2016). Alpine ecosystems show an intense and fast response to recent global warming (Camarero et al, 2015) and land-use changes (Battarbee et al, 2002;Cunill et al, 2012;Geantă et al, 2014;García-Ruiz et al, 2015).…”